Category Archives: game culture

Words With Friends

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Meg

A friend of mine is newly single, and not exactly by his choosing. He seemed to want to talk about it. “I was thinking,” my friend said, “Since I don’t gave a girlfriend anymore, I might as well get that … Continue reading →

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Amazon Jungle

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Meg

Harold sent me an Amazon link to Wisegal, a casual game he produced, because it’s gotten a pretty stunning player review: This game is very fun. It is not an easy game nor is it very hard. It is perfect. … Continue reading →

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Bring Me The MacGuffin

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Meg

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Some Thought Involved

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Meg

Caitlin, our brilliant QA lead, is testing one of the quests I wrote. Working in games has been my dream for a long time, but having a mission I designed currently in testing is sort of like the ego-bruising of … Continue reading →

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Things I Have Learned About Games

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Meg

Behind every bright pink videogame promotion is a female game dev headdesking in frustration. Tweet this!

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Games, Life, Whatever

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Meg

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Write Flavor Text On Computer

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Meg

Man, it’s like even my social games are telling me to get back to work. 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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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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Gamification

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Meg

The other night, I was having a drink with Harold and the awesome Francesco Marconi from Herograph when we got talking about gamification. I was at a total loss for why hearing “gamification” sometimes makes me want to kick people … Continue reading →

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