Hello, my name is Mike Gowen.

Just wanted to give a quick thanks to everyone involved in this weekend’s events.
SocialMediaCamp was amazing! It was great to see all the familiar faces, and more importantly, the unfamiliar faces. I’m constantly amazed at how quickly the Miami tech community has been growing. Thanks to Brian Breslin, Alex de Carvalho and of course Mashable [...]

I’ve only just begun to scratch the surface of designing casual/social games but during the course of learning I’ve discovered a number of key differences between web application design (my forte) and game design. My plan is to pass this information along as a series of posts I’ll call “Learning Game Design” (I know, not [...]