Category Archives: Gaming Culture

Jack Up Pharma Prices In New ‘Epipen Tycoon’

Posted on September 2, 2016 by Meg

In Epipen Tycoon, you play as a pharma CEO who’s struggling to turn lifesaving medical technology into personal millions. This game is basically a clicker, which makes it extra clear that you’re playing as the invisible hand of the free … Continue reading →

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That Pokeyman Thing Your Grandkids Are Into

Posted on August 29, 2016 by Meg

In That Pokeyman Thing Your Grandkids Are Into, you play as Grandpa, who borrows grandson Billy’s phone and leaves the old folks’ home for a Pokeyman hunting adventure. This game uses all the tropes of old-school RPG games, with a … Continue reading →

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Invisible Monsters

Posted on July 14, 2016 by Meg

I’ve been having so much fun playing Pokemon Go on campus. I don’t even care that much about the Pokemon franchise, and there’s not a whole lot of gameplay, but being part of such a large-scale augmented reality is amazing. … Continue reading →

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Twitter Eggs & Moving On

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Meg

I wanted to write about how I’m done with game reviewing, and I’m really sick of being caught between obviously you can’t expect to make money at it and obviously if you write about games (while being a woman), people … Continue reading →

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Star Trek: Timelines

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Meg

Every ten levels, the Timelines crew members will need four items to “advance” and permit experience to be gained from missions. Each item is related to the character (as Janeway wants coffee, or Picard has a saddle), but the drop … Continue reading →

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Pathfinder

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Meg

I’m writing a Pathfinder campaign for a publisher of sourcebooks and pre-gen campaigns, This project is both one of the biggest gamewriting assignments I’ve worked on, and a cool throwback to my younger days playing tabletop games. I’ve always enjoyed playing … Continue reading →

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That’s a Thing We’re Working On, Right?

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Meg

I just spent most of the morning composing a professional work message that boils down to “Hey, guys, you’re going to include a playable female character without her boobs hanging out, right?”

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Dungeons of the Endless

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Meg

New review of roguelike  Dungeons of the Endless up on iOs Strategy Games: Each room contains random, pixelated art of alien blossoms, glowing slime, broken crystals, or other space debris, and a random chance of having a reward, like extra resource … Continue reading →

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Fanfiction & Strategy in “Star Trek: Timelines”

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Meg

Star Trek: Timelines from Disruptor Beam is a mobile strategy game with fan fiction elements.  Since the overall game premise is a time paradox, all different characters from all different Trek series appear, and they’re almost all able to join … Continue reading →

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Some Sympathy For Seneca Crane

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Meg

There are two major conversations happening around games and creativity. One is an amazingly positive conversation around the value of representation and allowing players of all different identities to find themselves in creative media. This is such an exciting conversation, … Continue reading →

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