- Jason Rohrer
Jason Rohrer (born
1977 ) is acomputer programmer ,writer ,musician , andgame designer .In
2007 , Rohrer created the indie game " Passage", which received mainstream media coverage [ [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120034796455789469.html Time Waster - WSJ.com ] ] [ [http://www.slate.com/id/2179398/entry/2179825/ The Gaming Club: There is little reason to be pessimistic or cynical about the future of gaming. - By N'Gai Croal , Seth Schiesel, Chris Suellentrop, and Stephen Totilo - Slate Magazine ] ] [ [http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/12/1228_game_company/source/5.htm Video Games Break Out - BusinessWeek ] ] for its depiction of mortality and the tradeoffs of married life in an interactive experience.Jason Rohrer tries to make his living out of donations from the users of his software. [ [http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/supportMyWork.php Support My Work ] ] His family of four has a budget less than $10,000 per year. [ [http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/simpleLife.html Voluntary Simplicity ] ]
He currently makes a game a month for The Escapist. [ [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/gamedesignsketchbook Game Design Sketchbook] ]
Projects
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konspire2b , a pseudonymous channel-based file-distribution system
*token word , a Xanadu-style text editing system
*tangle, aproxy server which tries to find relationships between websites a user visits.
*MUTE , a file sharing network with anonymity in mind.
*Monolith, a thought experiment that might be relevant to digital copyright. This has expanded to a computer program implemented on his ideas.
*seedBlogs , a modular building block that lets you add PHP and MySQL-backed dynamic content to any website.
*silk, a web-based hypertext system to simplify web page linking. Similar to wiki markup.
*hyperlit , a literary hypertext authoring system.
*subreal , a distributed evolution system.External links
* [http://www.jasonrohrer.n3.net/ Home page]
* [http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passage/ Passage]References
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