Jared Hansen earned his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon and studied the communities of players still playing Star Wars Galaxies nearly 13 years after the servers closed. His research interests are the history of video games and retro development. He is also a solo developer who has made games for retro hardware, as well as designed rules for TTRPGs https://jaredchansen.itch.io/. He is currently working on a book about the history of homebrew development during the height of the Nintendo DS.
