Category Archives: Seattle

Social Games Today

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Meg

Korby Sears from Social Games Today and I talked at Casual Connect. I’ve been wanting to work with Korby for a while now, and it was pretty awesome to finally meet in person and chat about how TVs suck free … Continue reading →

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Cities By Gender

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Meg

Quick recap of cities I’ve visited in 2011:  Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Fransisco, Austin, Los Angeles again, Seattle twice, and next up is Denver. And, as these statistics prove, I’ve literally been surrounded by single men everywhere I go. … Continue reading →

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Chinese Bingo: Using Games for Cross-Cultural Education

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Meg

So, I was recently invited to speak at the Serious Play Conference out in Redmond, where I totally tricked everyone into thinking I knew stuff about China and gameplay. It was pretty nerve-wracking, I spoke on the third day on … Continue reading →

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Casual Connect

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Meg

At Casual Connect. (Thanks, Paul!)

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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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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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