Author Archives: Meg
Grab It Magazine
I have a new piece in Grab It Magazine talking with Nate about his amazing work in game audio. (He has more to say about sound design than I do.) Grab It is a new iPad magazine focusing on indie … Continue reading
Things I Am Not Good At, Part 5,473
I’ve been taking 40 to work at the game studio. It’s about a 30-minute drive from my apartment, if I don’t encounter any traffic, accidents, construction, or Mercury being in retrograde, so I have to leave pretty early because apparently … Continue reading
JPod: Continue? y/n
I just started reading a secondhand copy of Douglas Coupland’s JPod, and it turns out the previous owner has annotated it, adding another layer of marginalia on a novel that has instructions for ramen noodles and software bug reports in … Continue reading
Turning Gaming Passions into Profits at SXSW
Anthony, one of my friends from The Phat Startup, was on a panel called “Turning Gaming Passions into Profits” at SXSW. I would normally skip this kind of panel, because these usually talk about elevator pitches and personal brands and … Continue reading
Grape Lemonade Gum
This is a new grape-lemonade gum, and it’s pretty much the best thing ever. The purple part tastes like the grape Bubblicious I wasn’t allowed to have when I was a kid because it has too much sugar, plus the … Continue reading
Codeswitching
I’m currently working on a core game, and I also teach programming for preteens. Today at the core studio, our server crashed in a way that meant hours of work for the whole team. While colorful language erupted around the … Continue reading
Miles and Miles
I ran a mile! Twice! Any by that, I mean that I ran successfully for a mile, and then was a able to replicate my results on a second occasion, not that I did anything crazy like run for two … Continue reading
Alchemy and Assassination in ‘The Red Lily Crown’
The Red Lily Crown by Elizabeth Loupas is out today, and I’ve reviewed it over at The Absolute. I love fiction set in this time period for all the over-the-top disregard for laws among the elite, and The Red Lily Crown … Continue reading
Spring Jade
After barely surviving this winter, my McGovern jade plant has just decided to thrive, branch out, and take over the world. (That’s kind of how I feel about winter and spring, too.)
