Alexx's Home Page
last updated 03/08/2007
My name is Alexx Kay and this is my Web Page. On October 27th, 2001, I married the delightful lady known as Kestrell. She and I are both fairly active on LiveJournal.
I work in the computer game industry. Notable projects have included Thief: The Dark Project, System Shock 2, Zeus, Freedom Force, The Lost, and Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich. I am currently working on BioShock for Irrational Games.
I enjoy gaming, most especially computer games, but also medieval games, and more modern ones.
I'm a long-time comic book fan. My favorite comic book used to be Cerebus, which I've done a lot of scholarly work on. I've also made some small contributions to the Annotated Sandman and an annotated version of Watchmen (something else I should really do more on...). Here are some useful miscellaneous comic book links.
I read voraciously, and am a member of the Science Fiction Book Club and the Quality Paperback Book Club. I've done some obsessively-fannish research into the Dragaera novels of Steven Brust. Here's a page with some of my favorite prose authors.
I don't watch much current TV, but I do try to make time for Heroes and Veronica Mars. I'also a big fan of Buffy, Babylon 5 and The Prisoner.
I'm an active supporter of the ACLU and The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
If you want to contact me, e-mail is your best bet. If for some reason, you want to get me a present, here's my Wish List. If you want to visit me, here are directions to my house.
I am semi-active in the Barony of Carolingia (part of the SCA) where I go by the name Alessandro the Storyteller. My primary focus (as you might have guessed) is working with the Storyteller's Guild. I am currently working on a retelling in serial format of The Matter of France, as well as other stories, at our monthly Guild meetings. I also maintain a web page listing some good Storytelling Resources on the Web. I held the office of Historian/Librarian of Carolingia for several years, and can still be convinced to natter on about the Barony's history to interested parties.
I am the founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of Emerald Press. We publish books of interest to the SCA audience, mostly transcriptions of out-of-print period sources with some modern commentary and footnotes. We have also, however, begun to branch out into original books about the SCA itself. I also do a fair amount of historical research and teaching in an SCA context.
Like many of my SCA friends, I have fond memories of Le Poulet Gauche. I was a founding member of I Sebastiani, The Greatest Commedia Dell'Arte Troupe In The Entire World tm, but am retired at present.
The web is a great place for finding information. On the other hand, it's far too easy a place to spend money. On the other other hand, some truly silly things can be found there.