My Next Project: PhD

Earlier this year I was offered a PhD at the University of the West of England where I completed my MA, but I couldn’t secure AHRC funding thanks to administrative delays by the University of Brighton. I had found a local company (Fluffy Logic) willing to employ me as a part-time games programmer so that I could study part-time, but that could have taken me something like six years to complete.

During the last couple of weeks of August I saw an advert for a studentship at the Interact Lab in the Department of Informatics at Sussex University, doing a PhD on video game usability analysis with Disney Interactive Studios (previousy known as Buena Vista Games) at Black Rock Studio in Brighton (which used to be Climax Racing). This is a three year course with a modest stipend that’s enough to cover the frugle student life I’ve been used to over the last twelve months.

I’ve recently begun a new blog for this research where I’ll be posting in the coming three years.

As usual random stuff will be posted here from time to time too.

Degree Results

I just received notification that I’ve been awarded a Master of Arts degree with distinction, which is the highest grade!

Wave Music

It does sounds like hippie nonsense but I like the idea of this “Sea Organ” in Croatia.

The movement of waves draws air through pipes which produces a sound like a normal organ. It’s something about the harmony of physically crafted architecture autonomously transforming natural motion into human music.

I like turtles

and they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!