Kempt & Co

Web, Mobile, Games.

A record of my work and learnings.

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

  • Star of the Week
    How a well-meant ritual taught me that the system influences how people behave, and that the why has to travel with the what. The meeting Thirty minutes before the meeting, a colleague took me aside. This was 1998, maybe 1999,… Read more: Star of the Week
  • 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