Author Archives: Meg
Recent on IGM
New short piece on my New York neighbors, Golden Ruby Games and their new Worm Run over at Indie Game Magazine. Their new game is a casual runner in which players help save space janitor Zeke Tallahassee from a space monster. … Continue reading
The Time Tribe
My friend Jerry wrote to tell me he’s working with a new game, and he thought it might be a good fit for me. “Oh yeah? Why’s that?” “Because it’s a point-and-click adventure game, with historically accurate game settings, edu … Continue reading
Cary Hellscape
Tonight I went to meet with some local game developers in an office complex in Cary. I was very excited to go, but not excited to drive through Cary. Cary is a special kind of terrible. About a third of … Continue reading
Longform
My editor at Geek sent all the writers a group email suggesting that we all feel free to go over our wordcounts whenever the subject warrants a longer piece. I responded with a longform essay on serious, indie games, because who … Continue reading
Amity & Sorrow
New piece over on thalo about Peggy Riley’s amazing new novel, Amity & Sorrow. I don’t love every book I end up reviewing (AHEM), but I’d really recommend this one for lovely prose revealing a thoughtful and sometimes dark story. Peggy … Continue reading
And Turn Down That Terrible Music
Editor: Anyone want a rush fee for covering the end of Google Reader? Cover the news, and suggest alternative feedreaders, due as soon as possible. Meg: Don’t we have someone under 30 to do that? I’d still be on Bloglines … Continue reading
Text-Based Space Opera in ‘Choice of the Star Captain’
I’ve talked a lot about text-based games like Heroes Rise, To The City of the Clouds, Choice of Romance, Choice of The Vampire, Choice of the Dragon, and now, I’ve got a new piece on Geek talking about Star Captain. Choice of the Star Captain … Continue reading
Fiction and Family
“I found my extra copy of A Torn Page when I was packing,” I told Harold, “I think I might give it to your mom — she was asking me about my work, and a fiction anthology is probably better … Continue reading
New York Gaming
While I was in Brooklyn, I went over to the NY Gaming demo at Microsoft, checked out the games my NYC neighbors are building, and wrote it up for Geek Magazine: New York Gaming tends towards electronic games, so I … Continue reading
North Carolina
In Chapel Hill, doing a little betatesting for the iOs build of Gemini Rue, and giggling.
