Category Archives: North Carolina

Redress Raleigh

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Meg

I was really excited to interview Mor Aframian from Redress Raleigh for arts mag thalo. Mor and I worked together a few years ago at a fashion-meets-tech startup called Thimbler, and I am so pleased with her success! RALEIGH, NC … Continue reading →

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East Coast Game Conference

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Meg

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

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Meg

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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Vanished: The Island

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Meg

Recently started beta testing on Sky Horse Interactive’s upcoming iPad game ‘Vanished: The Island‘, as part of my ongoing quest to play every tropical island adventure game ever.

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Card-Carrying Geek

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Meg

Obligatory press pass photo! I don’t usually cover a conference for one editor. Usually I’m freelance, which means going a little crazy trying to hit multiple deadlines, with different wordcounts, different styles and different readerships. This felt a bit like … Continue reading →

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‘Cow Crushers’: A Message Game Done Right

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Meg

New piece on IGM about Cow Crushers: Auroch Digital  has released a new relevant game, Cow Crushers, around the recent scandal about fast food beef tainted with horsemeat. I’ve written about GameTheNews’ previous titles, My Cotton-Picking Life and Endgame Syria, and mostly concluded that although I … Continue reading →

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Not Just Another Zombie Apocalypse

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Meg

New interview with Sarah Northway from Northway Games. I asked Sarah about the growing freemium trend. “I’ve been hearing some real cautionary tales of indie games releasing only a free version with IAP.” Sarah says, “Free-to-play is territory best left … Continue reading →

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Flavortext

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Meg

I recently wrote about Avabel, a beautiful tablet MMO with a truly terrible UI, for Geek. I struggled to describe the frustrations of a gorgeous gameworld made fairly inaccessible by almost incomprehensible localization and an awkward UI, and hoped that … Continue reading →

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Gemini Rue

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Meg

The iOs build of Gemini Rue is out today! The iOS version is very true to the original’s point-and-click interface, while still taking advantage of the touchscreen’s capabilities. Players will navigate similar screens and will tap to investigate areas or … Continue reading →

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Life Milestones: My Blog in MLA Format

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Meg

So I was idly auto-Googling, the way you do when it’s three A.M. and your fiance is snoring (to wake the dead) (in graveyards several states away), and I came across this list of sources for a discussion of women in … Continue reading →

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