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Tag Archives: chinese
By Any Other Name
I have a great class at Chinese school this year. Some of it is just luck. I’ve been incredibly fortunate this year not to have a single parent corner me before or after class to tell me how I should … Continue reading
Posted in Raleigh, teaching, teaching teenagers
Tagged awesome, chinese, dictionary, education, lessons, my students, RACL, reading, teaching, teaching teenagers
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Passionfruit Hutong
New development studio Passionfruit Games contacted me the other day about beta testing their new puzzle/adventure game Tiger Eye Curse Of The Riddle Box. Passionfruit is made up of many HER Interactive veterans — the team who worked on Nancy Drew … Continue reading
Silkroad Society
This Joymax press release on multiplayer games, virtual societies, and Asian culture, landed in my inbox the other day: Joymax, an independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment for the global market, today announced the launch of a third “Clean … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese life, game culture, Yantai
Tagged China, chinese, Eric, games, games and relationships, gaming, General, Joymax, MMOs, multiplayer games, reading, Silkroad Online, WomenGamers, WoW, Yantai
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Wisegal
Wisegal is actually the second time I’ve contributed to a Lifetime casual game. I also helped to test Lifetime / Large Animal Game’s Fashion Solitaire in 2008, although I didn’t make it into the credits. Maybe I shouldn’t make fun … Continue reading
Posted in milestones, Raleigh
Tagged Amanda d'Adesky, awesome, BBC, Brenda Brathwaite, chinese, credits, Fashion Solitaire, games, lifetime, Merscom, milestones, reading, ThumbGods, wisegal
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Waiting
Eight or nine years ago, I worked in a diner while on a, ahem, break from college. The Pioneer Valley is full of similar college-age breakers, finding themselves, forming bands, creating art, getting that awful first novel out of the … Continue reading
Extreme Shopping
Cooking Mama 3′s shopping game is uncannily like shopping in a Chinese supermarket. Mama sends you out to find 4 pieces of unwrapped, unrefridgerated meat, but as you search the store to fill your reusable carrier bag, you’ve got to avoid oddly familiar store characters — shouting shop assistants in pastel uniform aprons or a girl with a basket of squid, shellfish and other distinctly Yantai seafood — who’ll slow your shopping progress by trapping you into minigames. Higher levels add loose eggs, heads-on fish and mushrooms to your shopping list, and more people to the store. I keep trying for the elusive perfect score, since I imagine it’ll unlock a “Sunday In The Auchan” extreme challenge level. Continue reading
Posted in Chinese life, Raleigh, Yantai
Tagged Beijing:Raleigh, chinese, cooking, Cooking Mama 3, games, nintendo DS, ThumbGods, Yantai
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What I’ve Been Up To
So, I’ve been working on some other projects, and now I’m going to recycle snips of those articles into a blog post, I mean, share what I’ve been working on! First, I recently reviewed the new Nintendo DS game Women’s … Continue reading
Posted in Raleigh
Tagged chinese, Facebook, Game Reviews, games, huh?, my other writing, new game, nintendo DS, random, reading, tech, TechCoquette, THQ, ThumbGods
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Scenes From Imaginary China
I came across this book when I was home in New Jersey cleaning out my old room. (Yeah, my mom said something about how I haven’t lived there in ten years and she’d really like a guest room and that … Continue reading
Posted in Beijing, Chinese life, Raleigh
Tagged beijing:new jersey, Beijing:Raleigh, China, chinese, Chinese food, learning Chinese, life in China, New Jersey
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Montezuma’s Revenge
I say that we’ve been playing multiplayer, but actually I think we’re playing two entirely different games that just happen to look similar. Let’s start with the fact that Stick likes to sing the Civilization themesong… which doesn’t have words. I don’t even turn on the sound. It’s not that I don’t like the song, I just don’t care too much for in-game sound effects. I played the game for months before we happened to play a hotseat game on his PC, and I learned that the units speak in their native languages on activation. The Chinese units (usually mine) say “What do you want?” and the Romans (usually Stick’s) say “What are your orders?” Continue reading
Posted in Beijing, game culture
Tagged British, chinese, Civilization, Eric, Faster than the world, games, reprints, Stick, troy
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Growing
“I got this cucumber seedling and this watermelon seedling because they were on sale,” I told Stick, “60% off! It’s like a little prize for ignoring proper growing seasons! Not like we’d know when to plant them anyway!” “Good thing, … Continue reading
