Author Archives: Meg
A Study in Silks by Emma Jane Holloway
A Study in Silks by Emma Jane Holloway is described as the adventures of Evelina Cooper, the mystery-solving niece of Sherlock Holmes. I was interested in a society lady detective and foggy Victorian London is a great setting for a mystery … Continue reading
Flavortext Superpower
As part of the class in game design, we ask the students to come up with unique, descriptive titles for their completed games, and to write other game text like a one-sentence summary or a brief instructional screen. Usually I … Continue reading
Royal Mistress
New book review of Anne Easter Smith’s Royal Mistress, in which I display more of my vast knowledge of the British monarchy, and prove that 90% of it’s from historical novels. (The remaining 10% is from researching interesting parts of historical novels, … Continue reading
Spending Time With My Family
Bored cashier: $15.17 My dad: Is the year in which Martin Luther writes his 95 theses. Confused cashier: … Meg: Oh, Dad, please just pay the guy.
Recent posts
I feel like I’ve not written very much here recently, so here’s a roundup what I’ve been doing: I went to ECGC and heard game writer Tracy Seamster tell me that reading PostSecret and eavesdropping on the train is totally part … Continue reading
Still Life With Fail Fire
Teaching children is hard. I’ve written before about the industry codeswitching between developers and journalists, and trying to keep dev jargon out of my pieces for enthusiast publications. With the kids, I try to say things like Will your player … Continue reading
Brakes and Clutch
Whenever someone asks me for a ride, I feel like an alien pretender trying not to be unmasked. Oh! This is a thing adult humans do for one another when they are all going from one place to another place together! … Continue reading
IslaBomba
My editor, Sonia, just wrote about indie devs IslaBomba, their creative vision, and the unique challenges they face as a start-up surrounded by Spain’s high unemployment. Eduardo and Alberto Saldana are brothers and the co-founders of an Indie game studio … Continue reading
Treats
At the toy store, I was looking at E-Z-Bake cupcakes, mini icecream makers and other culinary cuteness, but Harold pointed out that I probably don’t need any of them because we have an entire kitchen for preparing treats. I was … Continue reading
Mandatory Subway Etiquette
Yahoo! Voices asked me to write about something I’d make mandatory in NYC besides food composting. I chose pushing onto the subway car before passengers have gotten off, because WOULDN’T THAT MAKE THE SUBWAYS BETTER FOR EVERYONE?!?! I’ve written about subway … Continue reading
