I live what can only be described as a complicated life. My sweetie, Karen Sideman, is Creative Director for the Sally Ride Science Club (and the creator of Sticker World). I spend half time with her (and our toddler, Simona), and the other half at my apartment with my 13- and 16-year old daughters, Vicky and Betsy; when I'm with Karen, they're with their mother (and my ex), Louise Costikyan (an insurance industry executive at a remarkably high level). My former sweetie, Ellie Lang, lives down the hall--we lived together for 8 years, the kids consider her their step-mother, and they go back and forth between the apartments. It's not unusual for for all three kids, all three women, Ellie and Louise's current sweeties, and me to be in the same place at the same time with, all things considered, a relatively acceptable level of tension. Welcome to the 21st century. I also have three cats, and there are four now-deceased rats in the freezer awaiting Betsy's version of a Viking funeral in the Hudson (and when are we going to get to that, eh, Betsy?) Karen is doing some graphic design for Manifesto Games, Ellie is doing PR, and if I have a need for insurance services, I'm sure I'll figure out how to hook Louise into it.
Betsy's first game design. Woohoo!. She developed this for a programming course at Stuyvesant, where she attends high school. First you need to download and install Netlogo 2.0.2, then download the Legends of Britney file, then open the file from the application, and click Play. I won't say it's a good game, but it is a game.
Ellie's article: Publicity 101, a primer on doing your own PR.
Albert's New Home: A story by Vicky, written for Random House's "take your daughters to work day" program, wherein kids of Random House employees write books, negotiate
contracts with Random House legal staff (advances are 25 cents), design the jacket and write cover copy
with art and promotional staff, etc. (Ellie was then working for Random House.) Written at age 6.
Representatives of Animals Take a Stand Against Pollution, a website Betsy put together at Tech Camp in 2002.
Off-Site Links I find useful and interesting,
including: sites about game and software development; professional organizations; interesting stuff
about non-electronic games; places that publish me; New York-area game developers; and cool, free games
on the Net.