Whew...I apologize for my absence (on a few of my social websites), I have been feverishly working on my Graduate Masters Thesis project, Game Design and Architecture, for the past several months. It is the creation of a hybrid of Game Design and Architecture design methods for the creation of user-centric building designs. Last semester I wrote a 30 page paper (with 18 pages of additional material) and taught a class on the subject to students at the Catholic University of America. The paper was published on gamasutra (it can be found here: [link]) and a blog from my class can be found here: [link]

Right now I am running playtests of a game that I designed as part of my thesis design process. It is the game version of the design method laid out in my paper. Through this, the playtesters are creating buildings with strong experiential aspects. We are then taking these building designs into Valve's Source engine and playing them in Half-Life 2. I will post some of those outcomes over the next few weeks, but for right now...enjoy some of my 3D architecture work from grad school!

Also...please go to the websites of all the nice people who are still my friends even though I'm barely on anymore.

Chris