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Name |
Donald Brinkman |
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Your Pet Monster |
Flock Monster v1 |
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Location: |
Seattle , WA |
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Affiliation (company, school, group, e.g.): |
Microsoft Research |
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Affiliation URL: |
research.microsoft.com |
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"If my life story were a game, it would be a cross between (a game from before 2000) and (a game from 2000 or later)... |
Ultima IV and Portal |
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"Most people know me as a (check all that apply): |
Game Designer , Writer, Student, Teacher, Inventor, Public Speaker, Researcher, Lifelong Gamer |
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When it comes to my game-making career, I'm: |
a Jedi master (10 games or more) |
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Kinds of games I’m best known for making (or want to be known for making someday!): (check all that apply) |
Social games , Alternate reality games, Simulations, Crowdsourcing games, Art and Experimental games, Board games, Card games, Street games, Educational games, Workplace/Enterprise/Productivity games |
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Will Collaborate For: |
Creative Fulfillment and Fun , Experience and Mentorship, A Chance at a Nobel Prize |
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Anything else you want to say about the kinds of projects or people or organizations you’d like to work with? |
I manage Microsoft’s external research programs in Games for Learning. My job puts me in touch with all sorts of wonderful, brilliant people in the industry who want to use games for education and to promote social good. I am interested in working with anyone who wants to make platforms to enable disruptive shifts in the role of games in society. I love crowdsourcing, culture jamming, and social computing. |
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Games I’ve worked on: |
I was a beta tester for Tron 2.0. That is the extent of my career in the commercial game industry. I spent ten years in government research in the areas of quantum computation, quantum cryptography, behavioral economics, signals intelligence, and game theory. I have produced a lot of art games that are intractable in one way or another. I am a huge fan of Peter Suber, Lewis Hyde, and Richard Garfield and their work has deeply influenced my ideas of design. Back before the internet I enjoyed staging environmental games, usually by leveraging crowds at large events. |
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Skills and Superpowers: (What abilities would you bring to a collaboration?) |
I am a positive catalyst. When introduced into favorable situations, I am able to greatly increase the energy inherent in that situation. I used to be a Maven, these days I am apparently a Connector, with easily more than 150 active relationships. I also possess the power of Detroit. |
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3 games I’ve played that changed my life: |
Life (not the board game or the automata)
Grim Fandango
Chess |
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