About Andrew P. Mayer
Andrew Mayer currently lives high atop Potrero Hill in San Francisco, California. He often stares out across the city and wonders just how it is that no matter how far he goes he always ends up back here.
When he isn’t dreaming up new worlds of his own, he works as a Digital Media Strategist, helping people to create and recreate their own interactive realities.
The Society of Steam: Power Under Pressure
The Society of Paragons is gone—destroyed from within by traitors and enemies.
With the death of The Industrialist and the rebirth of the Iron-Clad as a monstrous half-human creature known as “The Shell,” Lord Eschaton now has almost everything he needs to cover the world in fortified smoke and rebuild it in his image—everything except for the mechanical heart of the Automaton.
The device is nearer than he knows. Just across the East River, hiding in a Brooklyn Junkyard, Sarah Stanton is trying to come to restore the mechanical man to life. But before she can rebuild her friend, she must first discover the indomitable power of her own heart and save herself. Only thenwill she be able to forge a ragtag group of repentant villains, damaged Paragons, and love-mad geniuses into the team of heroes known as “The Society of Steam.”
THE SOCIETY OF STEAM takes place in a Victorian New York powered by the discovery of Fortified Steam, a substance that allows ordinary men to wield extraordinary abilities, and grant powers that can corrupt gentlemen of great moral strength. The secret behind this amazing substance is something that wicked brutes will gladly kill for, and one that Sarah must try and protect, no matter what the cost.
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Active Design Podcast 005—Ethan Levy: Experience Design is your Business
Episode 5 here! 
This week the Active Design Podcast features an interview with Game Designer, consultant, and speaker Ethan Levy. Also, I discuss why D&D has become shorthand for almost any discussion of interactive entertainment design.
