This is the homepage of Jason McIntosh (/ˈdʒeɪsən ˈmækɪnˌtɒʃ/), an independent creative and software professional who lives in New England.

You can email me, find me on Twitter, visit my blog, or see my work on GitHub.

Ongoing projects and affiliations

• BumpySkies, an turbulence forecaster for commercial air travelers

• The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, a charitable nonprofit I co-founded

• The Annual Interactive Fiction Competition, a yearly arts event I help organize

• Fogknife, a general-interest blog, updated regularly

• Plerd, a minimalist blogging platform

• Appleseed Software Consulting, my freelancer identity

Notable past work

Games and related media

• The Warbler’s Nest, an interactive fiction, 2010

• Barbetween, a reflective art installation, 2014

• Jmac’s Arcade, a series of monologues, 2006-2010

• Gamelab 2011, an introductory game-studies class, 2011

• The Gameshelf, a public-access TV show about obscure games, 2005-2010

More projects on the jmac.org games page. See also my portfolio of games writing.

Tools and inventions

• The inch-long text encoder

• @EasternClock, a Twitter-based clock

• @AcrosticPi, a sculpture in word and number

More projects on the jmac.org inventions page.

Deep history

• Perl & XML, written with Erik T. Ray, 2002

• Mac OS X in a Nutshell, written with Chris Stone and Chuck Toporek, 2003

• Volity, an open platform for networked strategy games, circa 2005

• ComicsML, a metadata proposal for comics, 2001