Digging through the Internet Wayback Machine, it looks like ~2009-2012 was the peak of my blogging. I remember a very vibrant community of blog readers and writers that included developers of all types, players of all types, and hobbyists who might want to be developers some day. It was a really fun mix of people that made for some great discussions.
I am using this post for a very simple reason: to find some of those old buddies. I’m going to dig through my address book, links from my ancient blog, and point them back to this post to serve as my very deep, heartfelt request:
Please join me here, on my blog, to have some amazing discussions and camaraderie again!
And please tell me what you are up to! How can I support it? Still blogging? Maybe you’ve moved on to something else – podcasting, streaming, youtube? If so, I want to re-engage with you there as well.
In my desire to create something completely new – the entire entity and persona of “Professor Hartman” – I want to also recapture and rekindle something beloved: my broad and diverse network of friends, colleagues, and deep thinkers who love to talk about games.
Reddit, social media, etc. don’t do it for me. There are too many trolls, interlopers, and advertisers. I want to have deep, meaningful discussions about topics and get to know each other.
If I sent you this link, please understand it means YOU, YOUR MIND, YOUR SPIRIT, and YOUR ENERGY really meant a lot to me. I valued your outlook and perspectives and want them here as part of this new adventure of mine. If you found this page some other way, perhaps it is destiny and you’ll fit right in.
Please post a hello message. Tell me what you are up to. Let’s have some fun!
Still alive! Still teaching classes on the game industry at USC, still doing research on players and with their data. Lately most of my work is in using our measure of player-player influence called Social Value.
http://www.dmitriwilliams.com for a sense of the latest research
Glad you are still kickin’! 🙂
Since the good old days at Terra Nova, I’ve started teaching as well. It started in 2019 when a friend’s wife needed someone to cover a class for her to go on sabbatical. And I loved it.
After that:
2020 – present = Eastern Kentucky University. I teach a number of design/dev classes and even developed the masters program for game design.
2022 – present = University of Kentucky. 2 game dev classes and 1 on the History of Video Games and Esports.
I’ve really enjoyed it immensely!
Thanks for stopping in. I hope you’ll bookmark and be back! 😛
I’m not sure this is just something personal. I feel as if blogging as a genre has gone the way of the dodo, being replaced by expressing oneself on the internet in video format on different other platforms.
Yeah, blogging is up there with MUDs as old school tech that you really need to love to stay involved with. Well, I love them both. 🙂
I was really stoked to see your blog still active and you still going.
I hope you’ll check back in!