Complications Ensue

Human beings are perfectly capable of absorbing stories non-linearly. Very often we meet a person and only later find out about their past. ...

There's backstory that's in the game, and backstory that is in the game bible. I am all for backstory that makes its way into the ga...

One of the folks I'm working with here in Hangzhou started playing the Rocky Horror Show soundtrack on the taxi's speakers (which is...

Many years ago, I was asked to fly down to Cape Town as the Head Writer on a strange sf tv show called CHARLIE JADE, along with two fellow C...

 We're working on an opening sequence. I proposed a couple of short scenes. Other folks came back with scenes that I felt were long and ...

Looks like my talk on how to give and take creative criticism from last year's ECGC is up on YouTube. Has been since August. Who knew?

My father, Howard Epstein, passed away this afternoon, peacefully, after a long struggle with Parkinson's.  A boy from Queens, NY, Dad s...

In animation there's an effect called the "uncanny valley." We have no trouble with a cartoon character. But an animated chara...