Hi, I’m Scott Jon Siegel. The following facts are true.

I’m a game designer.

I’ve been a games enthusiast for as long as I can remember, and have over the past several years started making games of my own. I publish non-digital games as part of Escapist Magazine’s Game Design Fridays. More recently, I’ve been working as an Associate Game Designer at a nifty little company called Zynga.

I really, really like interaction.

Call it the intersection of game design and interface design. Interaction is key, above all else. So I want to create games where every interaction is meaningful; I want to build experiences with definite rule-sets, but with the potential to invite emergent behavior; I want UIs to bleed away and be counted as part of the game; I want to make players re-evaluate their relationships to screens, to controllers, to themselves, to each other. And, above all else, I want it to be fun.

I’m a college graduate.

In May of 2007, I received my B.A. from Bard College in New York, where I majored in Literature and the Integrated Arts, with a concentration in game design. My senior thesis focused on the creation of a theoretical academic curriculum for game design, along with a portfolio of games.

I write in my moleskine from right to left.

I still write words from left to right, but when I use my notebook I open it from the right, and fill the whole thing in backwards. It’s partly because I’m a lefty, but it’s also just a strange quirk that I picked up somewhere along the line. I don’t even think about it anymore. It seems normal enough.

I have dreams about being stuck in a loop.

Like spinning in circles, or having the same verse of a song repeating in your head over and over and over. In my dreams it’s easy for me to get trapped in a repetitive task, and difficult for me to stop. It’s just interesting, is all.

I’m living in San Francisco

I moved to the city from the east coast, in order to pursue a career in the game industry. I like it here, but it could stand to be a bit sunnier.

While you’re here, please feel free to check out my blog, my resume, or any of the other links above.

If you have any questions, or would like to get in contact with me, feel free to send off an e-mail to my first name ÄT this site’s name DÖT net. Thanks for your interest.

- scott jon siegel

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