On saying "no"

Evangelism I love my job. When I first came on board to the Developer Evangelism team at Microsoft, a peer explained it to me as “owning your own small business within Microsoft”, and I’ve found that to be the absolute truth. WIth that though, comes quite a bit of responsiblity. Although we have an office…

//GameOn contest for student game devs, how I started with GDC

In October, I wrote about how I would get started with programming, knowing what I do today. With this post, I wanted to explain how I got started in game devleopment and programming. This all ties into the latest promotion that Microsoft has for students. I’ve been pushing for the return of Dream.Build.Play, an XNA…

My 10th weekly newsletter is out!

If you find some links that you think would be useful, feel free to share! You can always subscribe (or unsubscribe) by clicking on the MailChimp widget on the right-hand side of this page. Here’s a link to the original file.   Gaming The Flame In The Flood – Adventure game on Kickstarter Here’s Why We…

Some books at the top of my list

I’ve taken a bit of a break from playing games lately, and instead have been cranking through books.  A lot of this seems like “self help” or “empowerment” books, but I’ve chose to keep those silly things off of this list. Instead, I wanted to focus on books that actually offer some sort of practical…