I'm working on a game for Choice of Games using their ChoiceScript programming language. You write it using an editor that deals with plain text files. To make that job easier for me, I wrote a ChoiceScript extension for Visual Studio Code, a popular text editor. The TL;DR if you already know ... Read More
My latest interactive piece, "Binary," is now out at sub-Q Magazine. In it, you have to decide what to do about an uploaded human you find on a wrecked spacestation orbiting a ruined star. It's free to play right from your ... Read More
My first ever published short story, "Physics by the Numbers", is out at Escape Pod for your eye- or earholes! It's about machine learning, physics grad school, and the things we do in service to exploitative systems. Also there's science flirting, because that's the best ... Read More
That's right, I'm going to be at the 2019 Nebula Conference! I'll be talking about interactive fiction in a couple of venues. "Five Minutes to Your First Interactive Story": Thursday, May 16, 3:30 PM, C/D SalonI've got five minutes and twenty slides to get you started writing interactive ... Read More
Ever wondered what it takes to assemble the core stage of NASA's new huge rocket, the Space Launch System? This animated video breaks it down for you. Plus it includes my voice-over ... Read More
In the wake of SpaceX launching a Tesla Roadster into space, I talked with Jalopnik about why a Bugatti Chiron can reach 200 MPH faster than the Falcon Heavy rocket can. Spoilers: it's because it has to fight gravity, and also you can't necessarily make things better by strapping an extra rocket ... Read More
I entered Will Not Let Me Go, a hypertext story about memory, love, and death, in the 2017 Interactive Fiction Competition. It was my first choice-based story, as opposed to the parser-based adventure games I originally wrote or the non-interactive fiction I’ve been spending my time on lately. ... Read More
Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer's. Will Not Let Me Go is my newest interactive story. I've entered it in the 2017 Interactive Fiction Competition. You can play it in a web browser. I wrote it using Twine and the Harlowe format. The Interactive Fiction Competition always has ... Read More
NASA's released episode 5 of our YouTube series, "No Small Steps"! This one covers all of the ways that NASA is testing the Space Launch System on the ground. It also has a lot of theatre kids wandering around and acting. As a former theatre kid myself, I approve heartily. Also, check out the ... Read More
Oh, hey, I forgot to mention the last couple of Jalopnik articles I've been involved with! Back in September, Jason Torchinsky asked me how well cars would drive on the exoplanet Proxima Centauri b. Unfortunately, I couldn't tell him that, but I could tell him why I couldn't tell him that. Making ... Read More