Scott Kim

I'm going to the Casual Games Conference today & tomorrow. It's here in Bellevue, and my group -- Microsoft Casual Games -- is the main host of it.

What's wild is, one of the speakers is a guy I have known since I was 21, Scott Kim. Scott is a puzzlemaster. I first knew him in Palo Alto, when he would come to parties at our group house, or we would go to his, and he would make puzzles during the parties. He could write your name so it read the same right-side-up and upside-down. He and I were both working at Xerox PARC. I saw he was doing puzzles for Games magazine for a while, then lost track of him.

It's cool to see he has surfaced and our paths are, weirdly, still entwining. It feels a lot like group houses, to tell you the truth.

I like that Scott took this thing he liked to do, which was fiddle around with puzzles and graphics, and basically get paid to do it forever. Puzzle on, Scott.