Born and more or less raised in Alabama, Chris Lamb has always bored easily. Mentally akin to a teenage girl raccoon, his problems with focusing on things both shiny and new rather than what’s actually important has been an endless source of both frustration and amusement. For reference, see the landmark case of Girls vs. Schoolwork, 1996-2000.
Adept at stumbling ass-backwards into remarkable situations, Chris is now a writer and game designer living in New York City. Popular theory suggests this is more down to some sort of massive-scale karmic backlash against his collective Math teachers who said he’d never amount to anything than actual skill on his part. Whatever the cause it’s not a bad life, and has more than provided the level of distraction and outlets for dumb ideas necessary for him to function as a human being.

Beginning his game design career working on webgames and downloadables for Pop in 2005 or thereabouts, Chris has since moved on to working as a producer/designer on Nintendo DS titles for Powerhead Games. His games have been played by quite literally millions of people all over the world, even if they didn’t know it, and a few of his games have been nominated for awards, which is always nice.  Despite these numerous achievements, his ability to write in the third person is still considered by many to be mostly crap.

Read by literally tens of people each month, Expertologist is a place for thinking out loud about the nature, culture, and playing of games. More interested in being a miscellany of ideas growing up in public than a site with any kind of focus, the content here usually tends towards taking games apart for the bits that make them fun, make them not work, or just the bits allowing for easy jokes and post titles riffing on pop songs.