Developers in the Mist or DitM is my attempt to bring my dissertation out into the open. I created the website in an effort to make it more accessible to a wider audience. It is also my hope that it will create a venue or forum in which my future research trajectory can be informed by those interested in my work. In short, I am attempting to create a sample space were creative collaborative practice can thrive. Parts of the website will likely be more applicable to videogame developers, but I will continually try to keep their worlds connected to those of others.

Parts of the site will likely bear my authorship more heavily than others. I hope to bring game developers into the site to write, reflect, and imagine future possibilities for themselves. For the time being I'll primarily bring comments given to me by developers who have read the dissertation to the website. As more material is added to the website, I can only hope that we bring new people into the conversation.

First and foremost however, DitM is about how to make videogame development work. At the end of the day DitM is about bringing the realities of work in the New Economy, and videogame development being one specific example of that, into the light of day. It is an opportunity to think through these issues in a space dedicated to improving them. Because, at the end of the day:

I ♥ Game Developers