About

I am a software engineer based in New York. For about a decade that meant games — gameplay in Unity, then AR, then the online systems underneath other people's titles: telemetry, live services, the plumbing nobody notices until it breaks. These days I am a product engineer at Disney Streaming, and games are something I do because I want to rather than because someone is paying me.

That swap turned out to be the right one. The work is better when it is work, and the games are better when they are not.

I like logic problems, and I like using technology to make something people can poke at. Lately most of my spare attention goes to photography and to Stranger & Stranger, which is the name I make horror games under — my project, occasionally with other people on it.

When I am not doing any of that I am at the movies. Current favourites, subject to revision: Jurassic Park, The Thing, Dredd, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Get in touch

a.wes.thompson@gmail.com. I am not looking for anything in particular, but I am happy to hear from you.