Accolades

Exhibits/Awards

2020

• MAGFest Official Select 2020

2019

• Whaaat!? 2019 Official Select
• Come Out & Play 2019 Official Select
• PRESS START Los Angeles Showcase Select 2019
• MAGWest Official Select 2019
• Indie Prize USA Official Select 2019
• Bit Bash Chicago Official Select 2019
• IGF Nuovo Nominee 2019
• MAGFest Official Select 2019

2018

• Out of Index Official Select 2018
• IndieCade Night Games Selection 2018
• Two Official Selects at Different Games 2018
• A Maze. / Berlin Award Nominee 2018
• PlayDate official select 2018
• That.Party Select at GDC 2018
• The Other Party Select at GDC 2018
• BlushBox SXSW 2018 Select
• Independent Games Festival Honorable Mention for Best Student Game 2018

2017

• Forbes 30 Under 30: Games, Class of 2017
• Official Select for Slamdance Film Festival 2017
• Inaugural SXSW Student Showcase Official Select 2017
• Independent Games Festival Honorable Mention for Best Student Game 2017
• QGCon Official Select 2017
• Miami University 18 of the Last 9 Honoree
• Two Official Selects for Out of Index Festival 2017
• Official Selection for NonPlussed Fest 2017
• Completed making 100 games in 5 years
• First Place Ohio University Digital Expo 2017
• Two Official Selects at Bit Bash Chicago 2017
• Two Official Selects at A MAZE. / Johannesburg 2017
• Showcased game at Escape Velocity 2017
• Official Selection Fantastic Arcade 2017

2016

• Media Choice Award at IndieCade 2016
• Instalation at SlamDance 2016
• Installation at Blank Arcade 2016
• Display at the National Arts Center in Tokyo Japan as part of 19th Japan Media Arts Festival
• IndieCade Big Game Select 2016
• Three Official Selects at Meaningful Play 2016
• Official Select at 9th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 2016
• Official Select at Come Out & Play 2016
• First Place Ohio University Digital Expo 2016
• Official Selection for Nonplussed Fest 2016
• Official Select at Game Happens! 2016
• Official Select at A MAZE. / Johannesburg 2016
• Official Select Tokyo Game Show Indie Area 2016
• Selected Team for Dare to be Digital 2016
• Two Official Selects for Dare to Be Digital ProtoPlay 2016
• Official Select for Slamdance DIG 2016

2015

• Jury Select in the 19th Japan Media Arts Festival
• Bronze at Serious Play 2015
• Exhibited at E3 2015
• Official Select at Games+Learning+Society 11
• Official Select at DIGRA Blank Arcade 2015
• Official Select at Tokyo Game Show Indie Area 2015
• Official Select at Come Out & Play 2015
• Special Select at IndieCade 2015
• Official Select at Different Games 2015
• Official Select at GameJolt GDC Booth 2015

2014

• Silver Medal at Serious Play Conference 2014
• Most Meaningful Game at Meaningful Play 2014
• Best Spectacle at Come Out & Play 2014
• Game of the Year 2014 by AIMS Game Center
• Best Digital Game 2014 by AIMS Game Center
• Displayed at the Miami of Ohio University Art Museum 2013 – 2014
• Official Select at Come Out & Play Festival, San Francisco 2014
• Official Select at Games+Learning+Society 11
• Official Select at Meaningful Play 2014
• Displayed at Miami of Ohio’s Digital Expo 2014
• Displayed at the Ohio Game Developer Expo 2014
• Official Select at the Smithsonian Pop-up Arcade 2014
• Official Select at Digra Blank Arcade 2014
• Official Select at Different Games 2014
• Official Select at EGX Leftfield Collection 2014
• Special Select at IndieCade 2014
• Official Select at Different Games 2014

2013

• Silver Medal at Serious Play 2013
• Official Select at Artscape 2013
• Official Select at Different Games 2013
• Official Select at Games+Learning+Society 9.0

2012

• Official Select at Meaningful Play Conference 2012

Podium Presentations/Lectures

• Tired of Fun? at Whaaat!?, Boulder, Colorado 2019
• Make it Personal: Are We Designing Empathetic Games? Panel at IndieCade, LA, 2018
• The Fun is Over, It’s Time to Get Serious About Games at A MAZE. / Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2018
• The Horror of Porn, opening talk at Heartbeat Symposium, Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia 2017
• 10 Lessons from Making 100 Games in 5 Years at IndieCade, LA 2017
• Making Video Games with Little Coding panel moderator at Escape Velocity, DC 2017
• Storytelling in Different Media panel at Escape Velocity, DC 2017
• Alternative Sports and Gaming at Escape Velocity, DC 2017
• How Every Game Display is an Installation at IndieCade, LA 2016
• Game Design Adaptation Strategies for Literary and Classical Texts at DIGRA/FDG, Dundee Scotland 2016
• Metafiction in Videogames at Different Games Conference, NYC 2016
• Existence.Identity.Games at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference, LA 2016
• Games for Yourself and Others at Miami University, Oxford as invited speaker, Ohio 2016
• Metafiction in Videogames at Games Learning Society Conference, Madison, WI 2015
• Making 100 Games in 5 Years: A Development Marathon of Sprints at Games Learning Society Conference, Madison, WI 2015
• Music Video(games) at Different Games Conference, NYC 2015

Press

• Interviewed on ForDevsByDevs, Developer Interview – James Earl Cox III, 2013
• Interviewed on Infinite Lives, Bears, Cows, and Phil Collins – An Interview with James Earl Cox III, 2015
• Interviewed on A Momentary Pause Podcast, James Earl Cox III (You Must Be 18 or Older to Enter), 2016
• On BBC about Dare to be Digital, International gaming students Dare to be Digital in Dundee, 2016
• Feature in Critical Path Project, 2016
• Feature in IndieGames and Gamasutra, A Creative Marathon – A Developer’s Journey To Create 100 Games In 5 Years, 2016
• Feature in USC News, Grad student’s goal: Create 100 games in five years, 2016
• Feature in IndieGames.com, Pushing The Edges Of Play – Lessons Learned From Making 100 Games In Five Years, 2017
• Feature in Vice’s WayPoint, The Developer Who Made 100 Games in Five Years, 2017
• Coverage in Game Informer, After Five Years, One Man’s Challenge to Create 100 Games Is Complete, 2017

Publications

• All of my Anxieties Under One Cover, Novel (2017)
• Intermedia Translations in the Arcade Review (Spring, 2015)
• My White Shirt in The Rampallian (2013)
• Hope in The Vehicle (2013)
• Tomatoes in The Canary Press (2013)
• A Rather Brief Synopsis of a Cross-Section of a Life, Novel (2011)
• I Wish I Wish I Was a Fish, Novel (2011)

Featured Writing

• The Fun is Over, We Have to Get Serious about Games, (10 Dec 2017)
• Making 100 Games in 5 Years: The Final Year on Gamasutra (11 Nov 2016)
• Intermedia Translation Videogames on Gamasutra (7 Nov 2016)
• 100 Games in 5 Years: The Halfway Mark on Gamasutra (22 Jan 2015)
• I Like Tolkien Too, but Please, No More Fan Fiction on Gamasutra (2 Dec 2014)
• Freeware Critical Games on Gamasutra (7 Nov 2014)
• There is No “+5 Sword” in Lancelot on Gamasutra (3 Nov 2014)
• The Four Types of Metafiction in Videogames on Gamasutra (6 Oct 2014)
• You Don’t Have to Build Alone on Gamasutra (29 Sep 2014)
• Non-player-centric Games on Gamasutra (8 Sep 2014)
• How to Start Making Games on Gamasutra (29 March 2014)
  • Also featured on GameCareerGuide

Curation

• Different Games Arcade Special-Track Chair, 2018
• Slamdance DIG (Digital, Interactive, and Games), LA 2017
• Babycastles, ShortPlayFree8 (SPF8): An International altgames Exhibition, NYC 2015

Education

• Miami University of Ohio (MU), Oxford, OH (2009–2014)
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • University Honors with Distinction
  • English Departmental Honors
  • GPA 3.73, Cum Laude
    • BA Creative Writing with Honors
    • BA Interactive Media Studies (game design)
    • BA Mass Communication (film production)
• University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA (2014-2017)
  • School of Cinematic Arts, Interactive Media, Game Design Master of Fine Arts Program

Academic Awards/Honors

• Miami University, Dean’s List and President’s List x 8 semesters
• Miami University Honors Program (Spring 2011–2014)
• Golden Key International Honour Society Member (Spring 2011–present)
• Miami University English Department, Greer Hepburn Award 2012 Creative Writing (2^nd place)
• Sigma Tau Delta, Honors English Fraternity (Spring 2012)
• Miami University Summer Scholars Program 2012 Research topic: Metafiction in Video Games
• Miami University English Department Senior Prize 2013 Outstanding Writing for a Public Audience
• Miami University Dean’s Scholar 2013
• Miami University Provost’s Student Academic Achievement Award 2013
• Miami University English Department Havighurst Award 2014
• Phi Beta Kappa 2014
• USC 2014–2015 Recipient of Microsoft Endowment
• IGDA Scholarship to Game Developers Conference, 2015
• USC 2015–2016 Annenberg Fellowship
• USC 2016-2017 Recipient of Kevin Bachus-Chanel Summers Fund for Innovation in Interactive Entertainment
• Miami University 18 of the Last 9 Recipient