ABOUT ME
Video games have been at least a hobby and at most an obsession my whole life, while my education and aspirations have been literary and philosophical. I'm just as comfortable reading and discussing Plato's Republic as I am playing Counter-Strike.​ My conviction that the same kind of rigorous thought and consideration should be brought to both has shaped my career.
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I'm also a student of game design with a background in C++, currently becoming familiar with Unity and C# in the hope of making some worthy contributions of my own to the already amazing indie game scene.
This is Plato. He was much smarter than I am, but I try. Click on him to read his Symposium.
This is Hyper Light Drifter, a wonderful game by Heart Machine. Click the image to check it out.
EXPERIENCE
Senior Contributor - Pixel Dynamo
February 2015 - April 2016
Writing video game related news, reviews, previews, editorials, interviews, and other features, as well as producing regular video content.
Author/Manager - JohnTakes Pop-Culture
September 2013 - August 2015
Writing weekly on a variety of pop-cultural subjects, from critiques of particular films and franchises (such as Terminator and The Karate Kid) to reflections on particular trends and ideas in pop-culture and art.
Lecturer/Editorial advisor - Perpetua Humanitas
September 2005 - September 2013
Lecturing on the nature and purpose of imaginative literature, working with a small team of other editors to bring a musician's semi-autobiographical manuscript to completion after 20 years in the making.