The ShakeyBanks Project is an exercise in community building through character creation and SNS mobilization. Shakey himself was born of a long-form improv exercise. What was originally meant to be a one-off character for an afternoon session of Fiasco, later blossomed into a fully-fleshed out persona whom I built corresponding... [Read More]

Tokyo SSB is the premier grassroots community for competitive Super Smash Brothers play for non-Japanese speakers in Tokyo. When I first arrived in Tokyo I found no information in English about the competitive scene here so I start began hosting events for this group through Meetup. After the meetup surpassed... [Read More]