As a romantic idealist, worldbuilding is my passion. I love the contrasts of utopia and dystopia as I explore the shades of dark and light that exist within us all.
Enduring worlds I've created
I've created two worlds over the years in painstaking detail, then populated them with countless characters, each with their own backstory, quirks, and dreams.
The two worlds exist in different mediums, but that doesn't really matter. Art is art.
Irukandji
I'm best known for creating the Kingdom of Irukandji, a virtual world that has existed on multiple virtual world platforms, including Second Life, InWorldz, and DigiWorldz.
Irukandji is a chain of tropical islands that came to life in 2006, and exists to the present day. At its peak, the Irukandji Continent was massive, the largest virtual world in the southern hemisphere. Seven hundred people from around the world lived in my gated kingdom, renting land, making friends, and building their own visions of paradise to complement my own.
Nowadays, and happily, I've let Irukandji fade. It still exists in the region of Arius, my one remaining simulator on the DigiWorldz grid, populated by interactive NPCs, and I imagine it will do so evermore.
Khataria
The Khatarian Empire exists on a not-too-distant planet, populated by the descendents of crash-survivors from Earth a thousand years before.
I began writing the Khataria series of novels back in 2000. Paintings followed, then short stories. I became too invested in its telling, addicted even. It began to show. With six novels finished or in advanced draft, I filed them away to come back to and finish later in life.
Thankfully, I discovered virtual worlds around that time. I buried my creative energy in the new world of Irukandji. But now that tale has run its course, and my thoughts return to Khataria.
I was 35 when I started writing its stories, and now I'm 60. I'm ready now. It's time.