Dan
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Sports or Recreation |
| Occupation | Video Game Producer |
| Location | Salt Lake City, United States |
| Introduction | I am a producer at EA Salt Lake, working on kid-friendly games (woo-hoo!), as well as a columnist for whattheyplay.com, the videogame guide for parents. Before that, I... 1) worked on not-so-kid-friendly games at EA Chicago 2) was a columnist for the AOL Games - GameDaily Family Gaming Guide, and 3) taught a college course on the history of the video game industry. Playing video games with my 2 young kids is a great way to connect with them. The key, of course, is to find games that are both fun and age-appropriate, which isn't always easy. The whole point of GameFam is to help parents with this critically-important task. Since I'm doing it anyway for my kids, I figured that parents of young kids might enjoy not having to add to their already-too-long To Do Lists. |
| Favorite movies | The Commitments, The Godfather, Band of Brothers, Shawshank Redemption, Midnight Run, When Harry Met Sally..., Pulp Fiction, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Princess Bride, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, Blues Brothers, Animal House, The Sure Thing, Trading Places, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., Office Space |
| Favorite music | Tower of Power, Earth Wind & Fire, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Marvin Gaye, Neville Brothers, Little Buster, Lucky Peterson, Keb' Mo', Larry McCray, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Kaveret |
| Favorite books | The Ultimate History of Video Games, A Theory of Fun for Game Design, Got Game, Killing Monsters, Everything Bad is Good For You, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning & Literacy, Smartbomb |