Gabe Smedresman

@DanielleFong Thanks! ❤️

@gabesmed happy birthday!

Find me on the elephant site: @gabesmed@mas.to

BART Basel is back!! This Saturday (12/3), wear your sparkliest blazers, finest dresses, and join us on San Francisco's leading train platform for art. Begins: 4pm at Embarcadero Ends: 6pm at SFO Meet underground. Register here → bartbasel.org 🥂🎨🚝

1/ For the last couple of years my friend @rongoro and I have been building a new kind of product to help small teams and organizations collect and manage records efficiently. Today we’re finally launching Koto. 🧵

This is a phenomenal reference. Even if you’re not making a LARP, the collected resources and design methods for emergent narrative are 💯

@aaronareed I look forward to every edition of this series, I think it's the most thoughtful, thorough, and artistically appreciative writing on text games out there. Very grateful for all the work and love you've poured into this project!

I'm helping organize immersiveexperience.org, a gathering for immersive experience designers in escape rooms, AR/VR, immersive theater, theme parks and games. Interested in giving a talk or running a workshop? Please apply: immersiveexperience.org/rfp-2022

Consider joining my astoundingly talented friend @djbaskin in her quest to create serendipitous voice conversations: cofounder.quest

The Call for Proposals for The Next Stage Summit 2022 is NOW OPEN. This is the link to the Call, with the submission form link at the bottom of the page. Have a great week, and we can't wait to hear from you! immersiveexperience.org/rfp-2022

I made a game called Cofounder Quest to find a new collaborator! I'm hiding the game on floppy disks all over the city in places where a software engineer is likely to stumble into it. ⚡️ Enjoy, cofounder.quest

Just played thetravelers.guide by @MeridianAdvCo, definitely the best zoom escape room I've done! A joyful whirlwind of hilarious collaborative puzzles. And a really seamless custom integration of video chat and game. Check it out!

@djbaskin @lazerwalker their blockchain geo platform is even worse reality.co/technology/big…

@lazerwalker Oh no. From their website: “What’s even better, the game allows you to do it all without the need of leaving the comfort of your own home. The agent feature allows you to hire an Agent to work for you worldwide.” You also “collect rent” when ppl visit the property.

Excited to do some adventures with pairplayapp.com: really inventive use of AirPods to create accessible embodied moments and stories for two

Very cool to see @DeepMind release full source code and model for AlphaFold, which basically solved protein folding

@thacher Congrats!! There’s no sharper eye than yours for spotting and highlighting deserving works in our field.

Honored to serve on the board for this expansion of the Peabody Awards. There are truly so many ways to create and experience “Stories that matter” and I’m delighted that this will lend some more recognition to a field producing some outstanding work.

I am thrilled for America that @Erie has been appointed the Acting CTO for the @FTC and senior policy advisor for FTC Chair @linakhanFTC. Cannot wait to see what the two accomplish together. @erie is an incredible champion for consumers 👏👏 💪🇺🇸💻 theinformation.com/articles/new-f…

Oh this is a great concept! Dynamic mystery game where you are the murderer and set someone else up to take the fall. By @inkleStudios of course who are probably the only ones who could do the idea justice.

After such an isolating year, The Book of Separation, by @OdysseyWorks, touches a note I think many of us could use. A really lovely live audio/video journey for two musing on separation and connectedness. eventbrite.com/e/the-book-of-…

✨Calling all Game Design Explorers: Follow us @ExpGameWorkshop to see year round info about our 2021 plans! Current call is open till May 28th!!! ✨