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In this article, I discuss the Academic Resource Center for Ringling College of Art and Design with a straightforward, journalistic...

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This is the prologue for the sprawling fantasy Mystic Searches, which has also been adapted as a comic and video game. A dramatic...

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All was still. In the shadows of the towering skyscrapers, the slick streets were empty. A recent storm had left puddles of standing...

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Narrative Design Document Part 1 – The Sage Lakes Joe Granato IV The world of Myrinda An overview Myrinda. Playground of deities. The...

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One of the benefits of creating games for a physical medium is that the tangible elements are such an integral part of the experience. ...

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Joe Granato IV v.10.13.20 NESmaker 4.3.x, supplemental This general design document is to denote changes for the stop-gap version of...

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The goal with this copy was to give the player narrative perspective in under 500 words. Myrinda. Playground of deities. The fabled...

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The basic synopsis included on the packaging for The New 8-bit Heroes BluRay was also repurposed and slightly expanded for the one sheet...

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The goal was to have genre descriptors that could convey the basic mechanics of the game tutorial being referenced in three lines.

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Part of a proof of concept pitch, this was a sample mission for a game-centered, transmedia science fiction project.

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A martini drinking paintbrush hurling electric sheep. A grumpy microchip spitting tesseracts. PlaSplitCity was weird. Being weird, it...

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This is a press release for the NESmaker software. This shows how I iterated the materail for varied submission considerations - in this...

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These are samples for a monthly column of independent album reviews for Music Monthly Magazine. Every Time I Die – “Gutter Phenomenon” In...

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While in Baltimore, I had a column in Susie Mudd's Music Monthly Magazine and was an occasional writer for Shockwave Magazine. The work...

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The following is an excerpt from Beyond The Veil, a fantasy novel. The general premise is as follows: As he contemplates the erratic...

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