I am always a little surprised when it works. Players high-five after solving a puzzle together. A child reaches for something in an exhibit and wants to know more. Someone says, "Wait, let's do that again!" because it resonated. I have spent my career chasing that feeling. In living rooms that became story worlds, on platforms built for people who never thought of themselves as gamers, inside worlds so beloved that millions of people have strong feelings about what they should feel like.

The work that truly lights me up is taking what games can do into the real world. From hands-on exhibits, to nature preserves, and farmers markets. Any place where a story is waiting and nobody has told it yet. I am wandering my way toward that, building as I go. No GPS, just one of those old-timey compasses and a mug of coffee the size of my head. If you are doing this work too, or thinking about it, I raise my giant mug to you. Let's link up.