Hi, I'm Josh.

Systems and narrative

For as long as I can remember I've been fascinated by two things: how systems work, and how stories get told. Put them together and you get Dungeons & Dragons, which is a story run by a rulebook. It's also how I ended up developing video games.

I took that seriously in college. I developed video games, won IEEE GameSIG, and served as president of the Role Playing Games club.

Stories are something I make, too. I'm a creative writer, and these days I'm trying my hand at poetry.

That same interest runs through the patented AI game engine I co-invented.

Away from the keyboard

When the laptop closes, there's usually something loud, small, plastic or on a screen waiting for me.

• Film club

  I run a film club, and the lineup comes straight from people I meet who swear I have to see something. That's how Shrek 2 and Meshes of the Afternoon ended up on the same list, and honestly, both belong there.

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• Music

  As a teenager I was in a lot of garage punk, ska and metal bands, a combination that pretty much guarantees a loud garage. These days I'm learning Ableton so I can start producing my own music, and it turns out a laptop can make plenty of noise too.

• Fixing electronics

  I like fixing electronics, mostly for friends: broken phones, musical instruments, that kind of thing. It's light soldering, nothing like rebuilding motherboards. I just like opening things up to see how they work and, with any luck, keeping them out of the landfill.

• 3D printing

  I also do some 3D printing, because one hobby involving something very hot apparently wasn't enough. Mostly I print my own designs, made to fix things around the house that I can't buy.