Winn and his machinima series have been featured in national and international media including the biography segment "Machinima Master" on mtvU,[2] the front covers of the Dallas Observer[3] and Houston Press,[4] and a full chapter in Halo Effect, a published collection of essays and articles about the impact of the Halo video game series on popular culture.
As players terraform, they cultivate entire civilizations through emergent gameplay, tackling societal, economical, ecologic, cultural, and political evolution and issues as they work to create habitable worlds for people to live on.
At the same time, the public's interest in space entertainment was increasing due to the release of Ridley Scott's The Martian starring Matt Damon.
Winn says, "She was driving and I was on my little MacBook Air in the passenger seat doing bug fixes, pushing out updates on hotel Wi-Fi and stuff.”[7] In June 2017, TerraGenesis took the top prize at the Very Big Indie Pitch at Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco.
[9] On April 4, 2018 Edgeworks Entertainment and publisher Tilting Point announced launching TerraGenesis on the Google Play store, making it available for Android users.