Tag Archives: Seattle

Big Fish Unlimited

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Meg

Big Fish Games first got my attention by offering one-hour-free trials of their casual titles, before that was a terribly common distribution method. It was a pretty appealing alternative to driving to a GameSpot and buying a CD in a … Continue reading →

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Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Meg

This week, on Inside the Music: Slurry was the brainchild of enigmatic virtuoso guitarist Fitzwilliam Darcy, but it wasn’t until he teamed up with outgoing front man Charles Bingley that the group began their meteoric rise to fame. This is … Continue reading →

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Best Men

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Meg

I mostly know Hugo’s best man, Samir, through stories of their drunken antics from the year that Hugo and Stick were roommates, and I lived in Yantai, China. So I’ve heard secondhand about the time Samir locked himself in the … Continue reading →

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Why Harold Hates People

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Meg

Hipster Barista Girl: So, do you, like, work for the space program? Harold: No. This is a Starfleet shirt.

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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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