Author Archives: Meg

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Figment: How’s your day? Meg:  Um, I started to tell you that I have Optimus Prime problems but that sounded stupid. Figment: Is this for your game? Meg: Will be. If *long and involved situation* and *detailed time consuming issue* … Continue reading

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Chinese Newspaper

Roy and I were making our way back after a happy hour for Next Island and friends… that turned into several hours.  We got on a mostly-empty 7 train, and found an abandoned Chinese newspaper on the seat, so of … Continue reading

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Games, Life, Whatever

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Cities By Gender

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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Write Flavor Text On Computer

Man, it’s like even my social games are telling me to get back to work.

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Anti-Social Networking

My new piece on Dialect is my second discussion of G+ and Facebook. Google’s circles, I’m constantly told, allow you to share content with different groups. You can skip the updates who bore you! You can make an unread circle … Continue reading

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G Train

I didn’t make this, I just wish I did.  (Thanks for showing me this, Bethie!)  

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Harold and Star Trek

Harold and I are walking down the street when he spots a Star Trek book on a bottom shelf of a crowded bookshelf, in the window of a closed store. He was talking, but he cuts off midsentence to drop … Continue reading

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Industry

Today I got a LinkedIn request from a professional contact that began “Hi Meg, we played Kinect wearing wigs at E3…”. This industry is pretty freaking awesome.

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Chinese Bingo: Using Games for Cross-Cultural Education

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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