With my What’s on Steam and @MicroTrailers experiments, I’ve explored different ways to help gamers find that perfect next game on the Steam Store. To that end, I’m pleased to present Steam Labs.

VC-backed startup Liteboxer brought me in to consult on gameplay design and marketing for a physical, rhythm-based boxing title. I helped bring the team from concept, through prototype, to their first public showing at PAX East.

Published by Humble Bundle, Dejobaan launched strategy game 20 Minute Metropolis. I started this project by asking a question: What if I wanted to play a city builder on my lunch break?

Dejobaan’s next project, Last Night on Planet Earth, is debuting at the 55th annual New York Film Festival. Scheduled for a 2020 launch, this is a full motion video (FMV) life simulator that focuses on modeling conversations.

MIT-based accelerator Play Labs brought me in to consult with their cohort of 13 startups throughout this past summer. The teams’ work focused on “playful technologies,” including AR/VR, eSports, and machine learning in video games.

Dejobaan sponsored a team for the MassDiGi Summer Innovation Program. Working with us over 12 weeks, a team of students prototyped a game that simulates rebuilding a post-apocalyptic Boston.

Advisor, Interactive Media & Game Design

Advisor, Indie MEGABOOTH

Mentor, Execution Labs

IGF Nuovo award juror. Artistic!

Industry Mentor, Becker Live Studio

Mentor, Execution Labs

United We Win: Lessons Learned from Collaborating and Coworking Around the World

• Keynote (FIG Talks)
• The Boston Indie Community (BFIG)

• Monster Loves You! Post Mortem
• Indie Game Development (Panel)

From AAA to Indie: Three Start-Up Stories

Keynote (IndieCamp @ Université du Québec à Chicoutimi)

I’ll Show You Mine if You Show Me Yours! (Panel)

• Marketing and Branding Games in a Digital Age (Sloan Business in Gaming)
• State of Play: The Thriving Game Industry in MA (NE Games SIG)
• Iteration and Prototyping (Panel, MIT Gambit)
• Indies Will Shoot You in the Knees (Panel, MIT Gambit)

• This (Boston) Indie Life: From Breaking In to Making It
• Hope, Doubt, and the Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Struggles of Indie Development
• Start Your Own Damned Company
• Just Because You Have an Idea…

• The 4096 secrets of the game development industry (Master Class)
• Iterating on a Portfolio (Master Class)
• Make the Most 🙂 Game in the Whole World!

• Hope, Doubt, and the Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Struggles of Indie Development
• The Altar of Monetization

• Everything There Is to Know About Creating and Publishing a Game
• Digital Gaming & Digital Worlds: Not your father’s Commodore 64

Push Button, Generate Universe: Strategies in Procedural Content Generation

Running a Successful Indie Game Development Studio in Sunny, Delicious Boston

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! to ooo! ooO! oOO! OOO! — Dejobaan’s Next Project

First Steps: Starting as an Independent Game Developer

BiG Expo: Starting an Indie Studio

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