Category Archives: North Carolina
What To Do With A Degree In Classics
One of my game dev students named the object for her Hero Marcus Junius Brutus and the object for her Enemy Gaius Julius Caesar. While I usually encourage my students to stick to the naming conventions, to avoid 10,000 files … Continue reading
Casual Droid
“Aah, Android! It did a thing! Is it broken?” –One of my coworkers, trying to look at a photo on my phone.
“Alice In Tumblr-Land”
Tim Manley’s Alice in Tumblr-land: And Other Fairy Tales for a New Generation tells the stories of fairy tale princesses and heroes, as twenty-somethings navigating relationships, friends, sex, careers and social media. The Tortoise and the Hare Facebook-stalk each other … Continue reading
Geek Girl Con Adventures
Short recap: Geek Girl Con was an amazing group of female game developers, science fiction writers, and comic artists, all running into each other to say “I love your dress / hair / blog!” So great. Long recap: I spoke … Continue reading
Times I Wear Yoga Pants
Either I’m exercising at yoga or pilates class, stretching, pushing myself, striving to be healthier, basically being as active as I ever am. or I’m lying on my bed, reading a book, basically moving as little as humanly possible. Same … Continue reading
Monorail Espresso | You Gotta Eat This!
While I was in Seattle for Geek Girl Con, I finally went to Monorail Espresso, instead of just running past it on my way to the convention center. It was amazing, even in a city with great coffee everywhere, and … Continue reading
Political Backstabbing and Handsome Men in ‘Everlove’
I recently reviewed Everlove, Silicon Sisters’ new romance / adventure game for Hardcore Droid. This game contains great dialogue, with both intrigue and snark. And the handsome, single men all over the kingdom really highlighted how often mainstream, for-everyone games … Continue reading
What My Completely Honest CV Would Say
I did some stuff for games, some of them shipped. I wrote some stuff for magazines, some are still in business.
Jesse Petersen’s “Monsters In Your Neighborhood”
Monsters In Your Neighborhood is Jesse Petersen’s sequel to Club Monstrosity. In Club Monstrosity, we met a collection of Manhattan monsters. Swamp Thing, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Blob, the Invisible Man, a mummy, a vampire, and Alec, the … Continue reading
#marriedintocomics (and horror)
This is me, having a lovely evening at the county fair with Harold, completely unaware that while I was thinking about funnel cakes, Harold was plotting a horror story set at the fair.
