Curious about all the amazing filming locations for The White Lotus television series? @setjetters.bsky.social has a new blog out that dives into the subject - enjoy a Friday distraction :) setjetters.com/where-was-th...

I didn't realize until today that I'm now a legitimate Marvel character - thanks to the Marvel Multiverse RPG module which was released for Free RPG Day in 2025! I guess I now have a really easy cosplay option for my next con 😃

So cool and surprising to see second article written about my talk at the @officialgdc.bsky.social, addressing the deep and thorough #culturalization work we did on @bethesdastudios.com and MachineGames' Indiana Jones and the Great Circle! www.thumbsticks.com/indiana-jone...

Excited to speak at the GlobalSaké event in SF on 30 April on AI and content adaptation for global audiences. I'm co-hosting a roundtable focused on the geocultural dimension in content creation. Can AI really help or hinder? Join us to find out! www.globalsakegrowth.com/globalsake-2...

I’m very humbled to be named as a Lifetime Achievement Award nominee for the Boss Mode Awards at GamesBeat Summit 2026 (18-19 May, LA)! The awards celebrate women shaping the future of games, entertainment, media, and technology - leaders who don’t just participate in industry, they transform it.

As of today, I've been self-employed for 21 years via my Geogrify culturalization consulting. I never imagined I'd manage to make it this far - I remain both humbled and amazed. To all my colleagues and clients who have shown faith and in my capabilities, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I expected to have fun giving a lecture at @officialgdc.bsky.social about the culturalization we did on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. I didn't expect to see a @newsweek.com article written up about my talk, which doe a great job summarizing my primary points! www.newsweek.com/entertainmen...

GDC was a fantastic week this year and I had a great time! My sessions were packed with attendees and I had so many great meetings and encounters! The scale of the show was impacted by industry conditions and current geopolitics, but I met so many people for whom this was their first GDC.

I'm very happy to announce that I'll once again be speaking at @officialgdc.bsky.social this year! My solo lecture focuses on the incredible work to build the cultural world of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. I hope to see you there as we converge on the key game creation event of the year.

Another year, another great time at the DICE Summit! It was refreshing to reconnect and catch up with many colleagues and to hear a greater sense of optimism, with a dose of caution. I was also humbled to get so much positive feedback from people about my work and some of my recent lectures!

Off to the DICE Summit today in #LasVegas, looking forward to seeing a lot of old friends and making new ones! If you're attending and want to catch up about any numbe rof things (especially the challenge of making games in a polarized world), let me know!

I'm heading to DICE as usual and I'm looking forward to reconnecting and having great conversations with colleagues both familiar and new. Happy to meet up to catch up, but also open to discussing culturalization services, SetJetters (the screen tourism app), and many other industry topics.

This GDC scholarship program is a fantastic opportunity for indie game devs and mid-tier devs to attend the @officialgdc.bsky.social, thanks to @xsolla.bsky.social! Don't hesitate to apply - the deadline is this Friday 16 January! events.xsolla.com/GDCscholarsh... #GDC2026

I'm happy to be speaking again at Pocket Gamer Connects in London next week, addressing the challenges of making games in a polarized world! After that, I'll be spending several days in Northern Ireland before I act as the MC and a roundtable leader at the game industry Leadership Day in Dublin!

2025 was another crazy year for travel, and incredibly busy work wise and I’m so very grateful for it. And 2026 is looking to be equally busy! To all the events and organizations who invited me to visit and speak: THANK YOU so very much! Best wishes everyone for a happy Gregorian New Year!

And for the final trip of the year, I'm off to #NewZealand to givbe a keynote at the Creative Tech Summit organized by Screen Wellington! Given it's my first time to #Aotearoa, I'll be spending an extra two weeks to enjoy and explore. :) I've been looking forward to this trip for a long while!

A huge shout out to all the amazing teams who orchestrate Game Industry Conference, Gamacon, GamesBeat NEXT, Games Ground Berlin, and SET-JET25 for hosting excellent events this year! The response to my talks across all these events was fantastic! Looking forward to my next trip coming up, more soon

Heading out today to speak at the following events: 12 Nov: GamesBeat Next (SF) 14 Nov: Checkpoint Festival (Rome, but online for me) 13-16 Nov: Games Ground (Berlin) 21 Nov: Set-Jet 25 (Birmingham, UK) Looking forward to all of them, and if you're attending, I hope to cross paths!

I'm heading out today to speak at #Gamacon in #Mexicali, my first time participating in this event and i'm really looking forward to it! The weather is certainly going to be more hospitable than #Seattle at the moment :)

Goodnight from Skopje :)

Today I'm excited to be headed to North Macedonia (for the first time) to keynote Game Dev Rev, their inaugural game industry event! And then it's off to Poznan to speak again at the always fantastic Game Industry Conference. If you'll be attending either event, I look forward to crossing paths!

As a long-time board member of @takethis.org, I'd like to encourage everyone to consider supporting this vital org's mission by grabbing this awesome game bundle!

On Saturday, @setjetters.bsky.social was honored to be at the Old Royal Naval College to help them celebrate their 100th anniversary as a filming location. We also participated in the successful @guinnessworldrecords.com attempt for the Largest gathering of people dressed as film and TV characters!

For some fun listening, check out this ~75 minute podcast session where we cover a LOT of topics from my 30+ years in the game industry! If you’re building a game for a global audience, then I highly recommend having a listen. :) 🎧 Watch or listen here: phokou.com/podcasts/30-...

It's DLC day! If you're an Indiana Jones fan and a fan of the #IndianaJones and the Great Circle game from the amazing folks at Machine Games, the "Order of the Giants" DLC is available now on your favorite platform :) Sadly, I won't have any time to play it before I depart on 13 Sept - so enjoy it!

If you’re attending Devcom next week, consider making time for my talk on Monday - you won’t be disappointed :) #ddc2025

Over the weekend, I hit a milestone of working on 300 games over my career! Thank you to all my colleagues over the years who included me in your creative journeys! It started with Flight Simulator 5.0 in 1993, but after 28 years, I'm STILL working on Age of Empires (hence this tribute art)!

Longest-running diversity panel at @officialgdc.bsky.social #1ReasonToBe is looking for panelists for 2026 We are looking for underrepresented women in video games living in the U.S., or from abroad, who normally attend GDC, due to the challenges of entering the country forms.gle/QWSK8wPjLu5t...

devcom & gamescom! I will be in Cologne 17-22 August and speaking once again at Devcom! I'm scheduling meetings and it's getting busy as usual. Please reach out ASAP to discuss game #culturalization, @setjetters.bsky.social, my event speaking (ask early!), and/or just to catch up! #ddc2025

If you are heading to San Diego Comic-Con next week or know someone who is, check out the game dev-related sessions that Jonelle and I are hosting as usual during the event! Feel free to share, especially with people looking to work in the game industry. If you'll be on site, I hope to see you!

Happy to be back home after a great, relatively brief (for me) trip to speak at the Morocco Gaming Expo and Develop Brighton! Such great feedback on the talks, and excellent networking. So now it's home for a busy week before heading to so. Calif. for San Diego Comic-Con!

Podcast Clip: Game Industry Unionization with Kate Edwards 🎮 An award-winning game industry veteran, Kate Edwards chats with us in this podcast clip about the State of the Game Industry and Unionization 📣: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMAb... @geogrify.bsky.social #GameDev #IndieDevs

Check out this fun podcast interview I did with @eventsforgamers.bsky.social! :)

Today I’m heading out to speak at the Morocco Gaming Expo and then Develop:Brighton. I’ll be giving a culturalization lecture in Morocco and then moderating the keynote session at Develop on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, as well as presenting at the awards! And delivering an online lecture :)

SetJetters is so excited to have a partnership with Martha's Vineyard to help them celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Jaws! We've added a bunch of scenes from the film to collect and replicate, and even a Jaws collectors badge to complete 🙂 www.nbcboston.com/news/local/m...

Before I flew out of JFK yesterday, I visited the amazing TWA Hotel! As someone born in 1965, the hotel’s aesthetic resonates deeply with my early childhood! And of course, it's also been a prime filming location, as found in @setjetters.bsky.social :)

Never a dull travel moment, but I'm heading to NYC tomorrow to speak on Saturday (and back home Sunday) at the @egdcollective.bsky.social's Waffle Games event once again! This student-run event is so well done and I'm happy to be able to support their efforts! www.egdcollective.org/wafflegames2...

Cleaning out my wallet after a long trip through 8 countries 🙂 Yes, I still carry some hard currency wherever I go because you never know when you might need it. The latest addition to my collection is Bulgaria, third down on the right!

Congratulations to all the Machine Games team for their Game of the Year award at @nordicgame.com for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle!! And this follows a great keynote panel we did this morning about making the game! I can’t thank the team enough for including me in the celebration on stage!

Heading out tomorrow on a 4-week trip to speak at various events, including Digital Dragons, @nordicgame.com, @echobasecon.bsky.social, and Dev.Play/DevTalk! Going to be a busy but fun month ahead!

Pretty awesome to see #SetJetters being highlighted so prominently by the Motion Picture Association! The tremendous amount of ongoing hard work and bootstrapping, and the endless networking with so many key partners, is really accelerating our momentum. :) www.motionpictures.org/2025/05/aven...

May the 4th Be With You! Celebrate by visiting #StarWars filming locations! :)

Goodnight from #AbuDhabi! Despite the oppressive heat, it’s been a great experience speaking at the Culture Summit. More details later…

After a great Reboot Develop conference, the next stop is Abu Dhabi to participate in @economist.com Culture Summit on a panel about the confluence of games and geopolitics. In other words, the focus of my career in the games for the past 32+ years. I'm really looking forward to the experience!

Once again, I had a fantastic time at Reboot Develop Blue! I was honored to deliver the day 2 keynote, for which I have been overwhelmed by the positive reactions and all the brilliant conversations that it has generated. Thank you to everyone who attended!

Got to interview @geogrify.bsky.social at Konsoll 2024! www.tiktok.com/@nerdy_norwe... www.youtube.com/shorts/1U4Oe...

It's travel time again (outside the US) and my first stop is #RebootDevelop in #Dubrovnik! This year is special as I've been asked to deliver the Tuesday morning keynote, about the 5 lessons I've learned in my career. I hope to see you there - and if you'd like to set a meeting, get in touch ASAP!

I had a great time recently discussing the intersection of games, culture, and geopolitics on the @amataworldpodcast.bsky.social! Check it out and have a watch if you're curious about the topic :) youtu.be/U-O4YzNAID0?... #AmataWorldPodcast #gaming #geographer #geopolitics #culturalization

Today marks the 20th anniversary of my self-employment! And I can still honestly say that I absolutely love my work! To all my clients who made this possible, I am forever grateful for your trust in my expertise! (Photo taken during my Monday lecture at the @rgsibg.bsky.social on 15 April 2019)

@officialgdc.bsky.social last week and into the fray of #WonderCon this week! Never a dull moment!