Jack designs games that engage with place and interactive stories that encompass the worlds you inhabit.

With an academic background in cultural geography, Jack specialises in designing interaction and narrative content that creates a sense of place or incorporates physical locations and actions.

He currently leads an ESRC/AHRC SHAPE Catalyst project to scale a digital treasure-hunt game made using what3words.                            

This work builds on Jack’s practice-based PhD project, Engaging with Place through Location-Based Games, which unpicked the relations between navigation and narrative that shape how people experience places with these media.

At UWE, Jack has played a central role in researching and evaluating two large creative R&D programmes, Bristol+Bath Creative R+D and Grounding Technologies.

He is a resident of the Pervasive Media Studio at Watershed.