Whew! Have a few lazy moments after an airport-spanning full out sprint culminated in a missed flight. It’s kind of amazing to directly test your fitness barrier by sprinting way, way farther than one should sprint.

My book was accepted! Wow! I’m excited/terrified. It’s going to be a lot of work. The official title is “Game Feel: A Game Designer’s Guide to Virtual Sensation.” So, if you’re a game mechanic designer, give me a holler. I’m interested in your take on the kinesthetic, tactile feeling of steering and manipulating a digital avatar or agent and how to implement it. What are the important factors in creating good-feeling games? Word. I have, like, 30 candy bars. One of them could be yours .

IGF! So, Matthew and I are coordinating IGF this year. Yeah. Again, the blend of terror and elation. Terrelation? Excitified? Those are words now . We’ve been around the IGF since it started, when we were wild-eyed young’uns, drunk on 3DFX’s beer. It’s amazing to be in charge of the shebang. We have some ideas about how to make things run more smoothly, but everything comes from our experiences as entrants and finalists over the years. Things ran smoothly last year, we don’t want to change much.

To Minnesota!