Hi, I'm Mitu.
This blog is about videogames, science, art, and other such beautiful things.

I'm Mitu Khandaker, and I'm an independent games developer (as The Tiniest Shark) and videogames PhD researcher (at University of Portsmouth, UK). Basically, I think about, and design videogames. I also co-founded and run a charity called Arohon, helping the worlds poorest climb out of poverty, through the education & empowerment of rural women in developing countries. I occasionally write at various places, including a column for GameSetWatch called "Gambrian Explosion", about videogames and art, science, philosophy, and wonder. Basically, I ♥ multiclassing. Oh, and space. Definitely space. I believe cosmic perspective is important.

Other stuff/projects/etc:

• Aspiring towards games on love: Digital Romance Lab
• Emo robots & monsters: Total Eclipse Of The Reactor Core

• Gaming Made Me: EverQuest (Rock, Paper, Shotgun)
• GAMBRIAN EXPLOSION: Games, Randomness, and The Problem With Being Human (GameSetWatch / Gamasutra)
• On Science, Simulation, and Love (Digital Romance Lab)
• GAMBRIAN EXPLOSION: Designing Games Beyond Humanness (GameSetWatch / Gamasutra)
• Scanning the Enlarged Horizon: The Future of Games (GGSgamer.com)
• Book Chapter: How Games Can Touch You: Ethics of the Game Controller (in Designing Games for Ethics: Models, Techniques and Frameworks, published by IGI Global, 2011.)

• Kandinsky and Game Design
• Proust Was a … Game Designer?
• On eXistenZ and immersion: The Immersive Fallacy to the Immersive Apogee?
• What Interfaces Mean to Games