I have a morbid habit of following any link which mentions the name of anyone I know. Sort of an interweb version of the old Jewish geography game (Oh, you’re from New York….do you know X?). Needless to say, after the jump I nearly always find that the subject is not in fact the person I know, but some more illustrious individual who happens to have the same name.

So this morning I saw a headline from Rule The Web which mentioned a Mark Hurst. And hey, I knew Mark Hurst from my class at Ben Franklin High School in NOLA. True to my pattern (but sensing the coming disappointment) I followed the link. To my shock after the jump I was greeted by a headshot of the exact man, Mark Hurst.

Seems Mark is now the head of a cool outfit called Good Experience. I went to the website and played some of Mark’s games, and they were really, really good. No surprise, as I remember Mark as the mastermind of an inspired pencil and paper robot hunt game which briefly consumed Franklin’s nerdier segment. I believe the game was named MITCon (Update: Mark points out the name was actually Mitcron). It was named after Mark, who was known in those days as Mit (his intended destination) .

Mark is gonna be on a web radio today. Check it out. Congratulations Mark!

Posted by mikedaum on Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 at 2:31 pm.