What I've made
I work in and between the fields of games, education, interactive art and science communication.
Ditto's Keep Safe Adventure
An interactive game designed to keep kids safe
Virtual Farm
An interactive exhibit for a science museum about farming
PlayEd
A web platform to help primary school teachers bring games into the classroom
Cybersecurity Ethics
A game designed to teach the moral dimensions of cybersecurity quandries
Gotta Get Outta This Space
A print, play and post game that has you and your friends travelling the stars to escape a robot apocalypse.
Qistigram
A concept for quantum-powered Instagram stories
Where the Heart Is
A reflection on globalised life
Numbeanies: Number Forest
An augmented reality app to help children learn numeracy using physical cards and adorable numbeanies
Art Heist
An interactive theatre experience where teams of four develop and execute a plan to steal a painting from an art gallery
The Neighbourhood
An artwork about stars and our place amongst them, generated from the 8912 stars visible from Earth with the naked eye
The Path
An artwork about life and the paths it ventured down, generated from the Open Tree of Life: a database of 2.3 million species and their genetic origins
The Laser Harp
An interactive artwork celebrating the International Year of Light
Particulars
A minimalist meditation on the chaos of life, the universe and sub-atomic particle physics
Unstoppabot
A hybrid of an infinitely running bot and a puzzle game, complemented with sarcastic wit
Flatland: Fallen Angle
A neo-noir adventure set in a two-dimensional world
What I'm making
The Odysseys
A game where one player is Fate, and they hold all the cards.
What I've shelved
One of the things I’ve come to really appreciate is the value of a good shelf: projects that you’ve made some significant progress on, but which don’t make sense to continue work on just yet. I even wrote a blog post about shelving projects.
Here, you can find such projects.
Budget Haver
A minimalistic budgeting app, focusing on helping you to control your everyday spending
Completely Accurate Human Thought Simulator
A game that teaches players to program a Quantum Computer, by having them tell stories about the inner lives of others.
Genetic Sequences
An exploration of the structures of genetic sequences
What I've written
I’ve had many blogs over the years - most recently I’ve written at Medium. You can find a selection of my blog posts from across the internet below.
Deciding Where the Heart Is: A Global Game Jam 2019 'game' postmortem Deciding Where the Heart Is: A Global Game Jam 2019 'game' postmortem
February 18, 2019
A postmortem of my Global Game Jam project
It’s probably complicated: Visualising the states of a quantum computer It’s probably complicated: Visualising the states of a quantum computer
November 06, 2017
A deep dive into how I've chosen how to visualise quantum states
QByte Devlog - Cycles and Cul-de-sacs QByte Devlog - Cycles and Cul-de-sacs
November 06, 2017
Getting lost in the quantum (but also the actual) desert
QByte Devlog - v0.1: The Simulator Lives! QByte Devlog - v0.1: The Simulator Lives!
September 19, 2017
How I got to v0.1 of QByte
QByte Devlog - Taking the Measure QByte Devlog - Taking the Measure
September 19, 2017
Making quantum measurements work in the QByte engine
Edinburgh Reactions: Whist Edinburgh Reactions: Whist
August 12, 2017
A reaction to an interactive theatre piece I saw in Edinburgh
Government 2.0 Government 2.0
July 11, 2017
A thought experiment about how existing political systems might be able to make deliberate fundamental changes.
Art or Heist? Designing Multi-Purpose spaces Art or Heist? Designing Multi-Purpose spaces
December 15, 2016
A look at the design of the original Art Heist, which repurposed an active art exhibition into an interactive theatre piece.
Finding the right problems for Citizen Science Finding the right problems for Citizen Science
December 07, 2016
A look at the main types of citizen science project, and some steps you can take to identify good problems for a citizen science project.
Data that listens Data that listens
November 19, 2016
Why we need more responsive data visualisations
On Truth in Science On Truth in Science
May 24, 2016
How science treats concepts of truth, and how this causes massive problems for science communication
Blood and Stakes
February 18, 2011
Wrecking The Curve: An Analysis Of The Teach/Tell Connundrum
December 21, 2010
The Problem With Portals
October 17, 2010
Postmortem: “The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Heat-Seeking Missile”
August 26, 2010
Inception: The Game?
August 02, 2010
A Matter Of Perspective
July 10, 2010
Is Affect The New Mise-En-Scene?
July 04, 2010
Mechanical Breakdown: The Inventory (Part 1)
June 27, 2010
Achron: Real-Time Just Got Complicated
June 23, 2010
Mechanical Breakdown: The RTS
June 20, 2010