Monthly Archives: July 2011

Casual Connect

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Meg

At Casual Connect. (Thanks, Paul!) Tweet this!

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Casual Success

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Meg

For questwriting at work today, I needed a map of the Next Island tropical continent. We don’t have a giant printer, so I printed out pages of map sections. Then, I looked at the unlabeled squares of terrain that I … Continue reading →

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Unconventional Dating

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Meg

  There’s my article in the summer issue of Kraze magazine! Unconventional Dates, that is. I don’t think we need any further comments on this. I’m really proud of this one. You can find Kraze in (most) Barnes & Noble … Continue reading →

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Further Uses For SCVNGR

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Meg

“Have you noticed that by the time we sit down in a restaurant, you’re always starving?” I asked Harold. “I point this out only because I thought if I didn’t order quickly enough, you might stab me, and also, the … Continue reading →

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Fish Fountain At Classon

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Meg

When I think about this summer in the future, this is the picture I want to have.   Tweet this!

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Apps That Need To Exist: Been There Map

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Meg

The last time I was in Los Angeles,  Figment and I were on Sunset going to Meltdown comics, and I magically started to recognize places. Places in Los Angeles are becoming familiar to me, which sort of blows my mind … Continue reading →

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In A Name

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Meg

At Casual Connect, Nicholas Berry from DataGenetics gave a really fascinating lecture on data mining and inference. The most interesting part was on names, using proper data to back up exactly the implications names give in fiction. (My words, not … Continue reading →

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NYGaming June Roundup

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Meg

A few weeks ago, I went to the NYGaming June meeting. I wrote on Socks, Inc. over at Indie Game Mag, and on Cloud Assassin over at I Heart Chaos. I also really enjoyed the Herograph demo, I’ll have more … Continue reading →

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Power Play

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Meg

I was really excited when I saw posts on my Tumblr feed announcing Reilly Brown and Kurt Christenson’s new comic Power Play: Our story revolves around Mac, a college student in NYC who suddenly finds himself with superpowers.  Does he … Continue reading →

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Long Walks In The Cloud

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Meg

Long Walks In The Cloud, by Simpson’s Paradox Saw this at the Microsoft table at Casual Connect. The other shirt is “You Compute Me” — apparently these guys missed the memo that all game conference shirts must be XXL and … Continue reading →

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