{"id":6,"date":"2013-03-23T13:54:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T18:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobbylox.com\/blog\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:34:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:34:36","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bobbylox.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Basics:<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m an educational game designer, toy inventor, and author based in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofchicago.org\/city\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Illinois<\/a>.\u00a0 I currently work as Lead Game Designer at <a href=\"https:\/\/nurture.is\">Nurture.is<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve worked on educational games for all sorts of audiences to learn all sorts of learning goals.\u00a0 You can see my full employment history on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bobbylox\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>A Little More Detail:<\/h2>\n<p>In 2013, I started the company <a title=\"Important LIttle Games\" href=\"http:\/\/importantlittlegames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Important Little Games<\/a> to do educational game design and development for hire, and to build the award-winning learn-to-code game <a title=\"Codemancer\" href=\"http:\/\/codemancergame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Codemancer<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I co-wrote a book of solo pencil-and-paper game design exercises called <a href=\"https:\/\/gamedesignersworkbook.com\">&#8220;The Game Designer&#8217;s Workbook&#8221;<\/a>.\u00a0 In the past, I&#8217;ve blogged a bit about game design at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/author\/bobby-lockhart\">Game Developer Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I co-founded <a href=\"https:\/\/dibstoys.com\/\">Dibs Toys<\/a> to design and license physical toys and games, along with my longtime friend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ryan_Olsen\">Ryan Olsen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was also a co-founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/bitbashchicago.com\/\">Bit Bash<\/a>, Chicago&#8217;s festival of interactive arts.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Basics: I&#8217;m an educational game designer, toy inventor, and author based in Chicago Illinois.\u00a0 I currently work as Lead Game Designer at Nurture.is.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve worked on educational games for all sorts of audiences to learn all sorts of learning goals.\u00a0 You can see my full employment history on my LinkedIn. A Little More Detail: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"About Me - Bobby Lockhart","description":"The Basics: I'm an educational game designer, toy inventor, and author based in Chicago Illinois .\u00a0 I currently work as Lead Game Designer at Nurture.is .\u00a0 I've"},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbylox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbylox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbylox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbylox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbylox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bobbylox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/bobbylox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbylox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}