Blatherings from The Pad

I am an old-fart game developer living in a lakeshore cabin among the flying squirrels of the North Woods of Wisconsin

I co-created (with Mike Johnston) the classic ChipWits (’84) – the best educational game on the Mac in its first year by many magazines’ estimations.

I am also proud of The King of Chicago (Cinemaware, ’86).

I am slowed down quite a bit by a vile combination of epilepsy and peripheral neuropathy which I call brainrot. I am at about 30% of my full horsepower. I have good days and others. I relish the good days and minutes and push through the others.

Brainrot has taken big chunks out of my life. Just after King of Chicago was a hit in 87 I was knocked out of action for 3 years.

From 1995-97 I had a great gig as Demo God of Microsoft Research’s Virtual World’s Group when I started having seizures again.

Since then I’ve been recovering and writing.

All in all I’ve had a great ride in life and can’t wait to see what happens next.