About the Researcher
Chief Archivist Justin Cummings is a writer, game developer, illustrator, TTRPG creator, and aspiring iconoclastic firebrand. His credits in the video game industry include titles like Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Aether & Iron, and BioShock.
Justin works with talented teams to craft high level story content, compelling characters, cinematics, quest narratives & dialogue, systemic VO, worldbuilding, menu & UI text, and more. He believes all game developers are storytellers, and thrives on collaboration with designers, artists, audio engineers, producers, programmers, and creators of every kind.
Justin is passionate about genre fiction and finding ways to inject diversity, freshness, and nuance into commercial media. He enjoys working with teams of all sizes, and prioritizes projects and workspaces that are healthy and inclusive.
He has written 5 shipped video games, over 250 critical analysis essays on games and cinema, multiple original Dungeons & Dragons adventure modules, a musical produced by UCFollies at the University of Toronto, and some truly embarrassing fan fiction.
As the founder and sole member of the Bad Idea Institute, Justin's regrettable lack of creative excellence is the fuel lighting its ever-burning beacons of mediocrity.
About the Institute
The Bad Idea Institute was founded on the World Wide Web as a repository for one man's awful creative projects, and has since grown into an exhaustive archive of his professional and personal exploits.
Dedicated to creative discovery through woeful miscalculation since 1989, the Institute remains a trusted worldwide portal to Really Dumb Stuff.
A collective of one... an inspiration to none.
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