I’m a game researcher and designer. I’ve recently submitted my PhD dissertation at the IT University of Copenhagen’s Center for Digital Play. My dissertation, titled Mytholudics: Understanding Games As/Through Myth, proposes a method for analysing games both as conduits of mythologies within society and as mythological structures in themselves.
This helps us to see how a gameworld constructs its world and the rules by which it operates, and how that world becomes so easy and intuitive for players to inhabit. The same method could be used in the construction of a gameworld, allowing for harmony and resonances between themes and motifs without there having to be a strict or explicit narrative coherence.
This is my website where you’ll find links to all the other relevant internet places you can find me at, all of my publications, games and other projects, and the occasional blog post whenever I feel like writing something there.
All of my publications here have a link or download where you can read it for free. If that is ever not the case, please contact me and I will happily send you a copy directly and make one available online.
PhD, 2022 (expected)
IT University of Copenhagen
MSc in Games, 2019
IT University of Copenhagen
MA in English Literary Studies, 2016
University of Exeter
BA (Hons) in English, 2015
University of Exeter
Band together a ragtag team of criminals to start building your own crime syndicate. Start with humble raids on innocent hot dog stands and work your way up to well-organised casinos and banks in this crime management game.
An over-the-top card game about balancing your mana. Push it to the limit but be careful not to overcharge.
A Halloween-themed endless musical vertical platformer.
A one-button game that mixes Spider-Man with the guitar guy in Mad Max.
Bring light to a dark world through exploration and combat.
A top-down two player co-op zombie shooter with a twist – one player has a flashlight and the other has a gun.
Select the genes for the new generation as you respond to national crises. But every choice has consequences and side effects.