Hi there, and thanks for visiting. I’m Chris Kemp-Salt, AKA Kempt. I built an early web game in 1997 using Macromedia Director and I’ve worked in the web or games ever since. This site pulls together:

• My business history since starting Kempt in 2003.
• The games I’ve worked on, well over a hundred of them.
• My writing on the business of building games and being human.

If any of it resonates, do get in contact.

Latest Posts

• The Convenience Illusion
  Or how a trillion-dollar company taught me that indifference scales better than incompetence. I spent four and a half hours in an Apple Store today that should have taken fifteen minutes. Before that, weeks on the phone. Then a wasted… Read more: The Convenience Illusion
• The Power of Stories
  Why nations rise and fall on narrative, and how a story saved my life Part One: Behind the Glass I was nine years old, sitting on my bedroom window sill, one flight up. A standard single glazed window with a… Read more: The Power of Stories
• The Power of Having Nothing Left to Lose
  “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933 By spring, everything had gone. I was over a… Read more: The Power of Having Nothing Left to Lose