Category Archives: New York City

Hello Kitty Car

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Meg

Saw this the other night. It’s actually NOT the first Hello Kitty car I’ve seen!

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Overheard in New York

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Meg

Harold and I were on the train the other night, talking about the game. It was the usual post-work subway, crowded and loud when we got on, but a lull happened to fall in the car a few minutes in. … Continue reading →

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Deep Sea

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Meg

When I was in Austin for SxSW, I got the chance to check outsome amazing indie games at Screenburn, and I wrote up my reaction to Deep Sea, over at Indie Game Mag: Deep Sea, Robin Arnott’s terrifying sound-based undersea … Continue reading →

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Entropia Times Magazine

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Meg

The March issue of the Entropia Times magazine is out, and the ET staff has done a beautiful job, once again. There’s a pretty awesome piece about some of the crazy things I do for a living. After it went … Continue reading →

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Augmented Reality

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Meg

“…and I’ve also been going to the gym here a lot,” Stick said, midway through the backlog of saw-this-and-thought-of-you that makes up our recent phone conversations. “Yeah, I know,” I said. “I saw it on your SCVNGR feed.” “Oh yeah? … Continue reading →

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Overused Metaphor #536

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Meg

(There was accompanying text, but just as I was hitting Publish, I got a call from UMass telling me that I would retroactively fail every single literature and poetry class I’ve ever taken, unless I immediately deleted all that cliched … Continue reading →

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Why I Should Consider Getting Out More

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Meg

I was at dinner with Harold when I got a message from our boss on my phone. “You get this one?” I asked. “‘See source code’? Why’s he telling us to see the source code? Oh, man, it’s the game … Continue reading →

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Day Job

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Meg

I challenged my players to a scavenger hunt a few days ago, and asked them to find a screenshot of two avatars flirting. This is what one them came up with: I watched it until my boss told me to … Continue reading →

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Dickwolves

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Meg

Look, I wasn’t going to jump into the PAX East/ Dickwolves fray, but the ever-awesome Genevieve  Valentine called me out on it. It all began with a mediocre joke from a nerd comic that I find pretty hit-or-miss in general. … Continue reading →

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Seriously, Facebook?

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Meg

This is worse than that time Pandora had the nerve to contaminate my Britney Spears/Lady Gaga station with Backstreet Boys.

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