Author Archives: Meg

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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#ClinkSavings Is Out of Beta

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Meg

A few months ago, I wrote about Clink, a new financial app that was still in beta. Now Clink is out of beta and officially launched! This app allows uses to be what Yahoo! Finance calls “passive savers” and automatically save and invest a chosen … Continue reading →

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Americanah”

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Meg

I got this from Cambridge library because I recognized the author’s name from the NPR story on We Should All Be Feminists, and also because I love expat and travel stories. I couldn’t recommend it more, both as an excellent, sympathetic expat account … Continue reading →

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Things Forgotten

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Meg

I forgot how excited everyone in Massachusetts gets over a mild spring day. All it takes is a tiny bit of sunshine, and everyone is grinning and striking up conversations. Actually, first I forgot how bitterly cold New England is, and how … Continue reading →

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Walking Dead: No Man’s Land

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Meg

New post over on iOs Strategy Games: In The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land from Next Games Oy, high production values and solid combat mechanics help this stand out from the crowded field of freemium zombie battles. The zombie apocalypse setting will be … Continue reading →

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AstroNest: The Beginning

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Meg

I’ve started writing some game reviews for iOsStrategyGames (I swear I didn’t know about that awesome communist branding before I took the assignments), and I was assigned AstroNest. On the plus side, female characters wearing clothes!  On the minus side, pretty … Continue reading →

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Thoughts On The Yelp Millennial Thing

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Meg

Did you see the Open Letter To My CEO, about a starving (well, kinda starving, we’ll get to that) young Yelp employee? On one hand, YES. Rent is insanely high. Especially in cities, which is where job opportunities are. Entry-level jobs … Continue reading →

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BostonFIG Talks

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Meg

I went to the BostonFIG Talks the other day… er… the other month. (That is pretty much how my life is going right now.) It was great to see the games being developed in Boston, and it was just a really thoughtfully … Continue reading →

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No, Seriously. Don’t Skip “Monument Valley”

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Meg

I have a new post over (The) Absolute, talking about the wonderful puzzles of Monument Valley: Monument Valley. Are you playing this? You probably should be. This mobile game from ustwo has been out for a while, but the description … Continue reading →

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