Know anyone in marketing with experience reaching college students? How about in Pakistan or Japan or Brazil? My team is looking for somebody to do global marketing for the Imagine Cup competition.

Redmond Academic Developer Evangelist – Marketing Manager Job – WA, 98052

Redmond Academic Developer Evangelist – Marketing Manager Job – WA, 98052

My work has never inspired much in the way of fan art, but this example from 1996 always delighted me. Back when my game Puppetland was just a download on my home page I received this awesome picture. I don’t know the circumstances in which it was created but I hope it was math class.

Nice video about the Playful Learning initiative that I worked on. If you look closely, you’ll see some gameplay from my Project Columbia interactive storybook, which sadly won’t see the light of day. But Kinect Sesame Street TV has shipped and I’m really proud of that project.

Spent a great day at PAX here in Seattle. Amazing to see such a turnout. I first went to PAX when it was in a hotel on the eastside — we did an early Pirates of the Burning Sea event there — and their growth has been astounding.

I should probably tell you about my new job. If only Microsoft would put out a press release and save me the trouble!

Microsoft Launches More Expansive Imagine Cup 2013

Eleventh year features new categories and bigger cash prizes to inspire more young developers and entrepreneurs around the globe.

This looks like great fun. I’m glad to see a kid superhero suitable for all ages.

Flaming Carrot, my favorite comic book ever, has a Kickstarter underway. For fifteen bucks you can get the complete run of the series as an ebook. This is a dada masterpiece and one of the few good things to come out of the 1980s. I wore Flaming Carrot t-shirts proudly, registered at GenCon at the age of seventeen as “Franklin Carreaux,” and made my own Flaming Carrot action figure as a college freshman out of an old Mego Mister Fantastic doll plus a carrot head I made myself out of Sculpy. The comic is funny as hell, amazingly creative, totally weird, and just brilliant. You got fifteen bucks? Get this.

I just have to point out that Reaper’s Bones Kickstarter is now up to more than 150 gaming miniatures for $100. As they hit stretch goals they keep tossing more figures into the $100 bucket and it’s just nuts. If you’re any kind of tabletop gamer, this is the mother lode.

Kickstarter really is my crack these days. I’ve backed two dozen projects and I find the whole thing fascinating. If you want to follow my Kickstarter activity and get a ping whenever I back a project, feel free to do so here:

John Scott Tynes — Kickstarter

A demon gave you superpowers and it demands EVIL. Maybe a little over-the-top, thwartable villainy will keep it under control. Maybe.