At the University of Illinois
I am involved in several research initiatives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign related to my interests in Interactive Digital Narrative, Chatbots and AI interfaces, Crowdsourced/Collaborative Authoring, and Digital Inclusion.
- The Electronic Literatures and Literacies Lab (EL3) is a cross-campus community supported by the Illinois Informatics Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which brings together authors, programmers, game designers, artists, and interdisciplinary researchers from the Humanities, Fine Arts, Social Sciences and STEM to collaborate in the study and design of interactive digital narratives, immersive simulations, chatbots, and socially transformative games. El3 is beginning its second year hosting the Playful by Design Interdisciplinary Game Studies initiative.
- The Illinois Map is a digital learning environment, envisioned as both a classroom resource (an educational game), and a pedagogical tool (a coding workshop). It is designed to foster programming literacy while promoting intercultural/ interracial empathy through play.
My Interactive Fiction
CosmoServe: An adventure game for the BBS-enslaved
CosmoServe simulates the online life of programmers and computer gamers in the pre-Internet era.
Escape
Escape is the first of a series of tutorial games meant for people who are new to writing Interactive Fiction.
Falling
In Falling you will try to play poker while falling down a rabbit hole. It’s harder than it sounds.
Shades of Gray: An Adventure in Black and White
This collaboratively authored game was created in the early 1990s by members of CompuServe Gaming Forum.