Norman is a student currently studying Games and Interactivity at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. He is a representative of a student association known as Swingamers and is actively involved in various games academic forums. In March 2008, Norman and three other partners founded Opaque Multimedia, an independent games studio aiming to transcend interactive narrative in games, and promoting games as an art form. In the future he intends to undertake PhD study at Swinburne and become a games academic.