Category Archives: New York City

East Coast Game Conference

I first attended Raleigh’s East Coast Game Conference in 2010, when it was Triangle Games Conference. (I’m a gaming convention hipster, apparently.)  Now in it’s fifth year, ECGC offers seven programming tracks, allowing attendees to focus on Design, Programming, Art, Writing, Serious … Continue reading

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Motherlode

When the new SimCity came out, and crowds of gamers leapt to vilify EA for the problems with a new always-online “feature”, I kind of laughed at players getting so wound up over launch-day issues. I even snarked about how worked … Continue reading

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My Internal Monologue, #5

How many F-bombs do I get to use? -Was not actually what I said when my editor asked if I’d be interested in writing an editorial discussing the massive layoffs in the games industry.

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This is Why I Don’t Want To Connect Submittable To Facebook

This picture is for my returned expat friend Gabrielle Olexa, who’s currently chronicling her rejection letters on her blog. These aren’t actually all my Submittable rejections but trying to shrink the font size to fit more rejections in the screencap … Continue reading

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Slow Boat

Got a review copy from an editor today. Sometimes Harold tells me that Brooklyn isn’t all that far away, but seeing a book that took two weeks to come from New York, and somehow got smashed, creased, and water damaged on … Continue reading

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Beijing Tech Report

Really excited to hear about my former student presenting her start-up pitch at Beijing Tech Hive!  My old student is, of course, the woman in front. Via Beijing Tech Report 

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In Which I Am Fairly Shallow

The Christmas before last, my parents asked me what I would like for Christmas, and I said I wanted some money towards a new winter coat. My dad reacted with fatherly concern for my financial state and my health, and … Continue reading

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Dunning-Kruger Effect

  I came across this photo from my game design class last spring. I shared it at iheartchaos a while ago, but I don’t think I ever shared it here. We covered this in a discussion about cognitive biases. I … Continue reading

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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

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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

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