Category Archives: North Carolina
What The Heck Am I Going To Do With A Vegi-Magical Degree?
Another of my favorite screens from Lili. Just used this as the accompanying art for a piece on the possible definitions of indie games, because I giggled to see an indie game character wondering if her education is a good … Continue reading
A Design for Boring: The Freemium Model Problems
New piece talking about freemium games on DragonBlogger. Bad freemium frustrates me, although I think games have value, developers should be paid for their craft, and freemium is not automatically evil. After many rounds of editing, and many discussions with … Continue reading
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
Equals
This is the first time I’ve changed my profile photo for a Facebook cause. I usually see these as lazy slacktivism, because if you really want to support a cause, you could try donating some money or writing a letter! … Continue reading
Alternate Universe Screamland?
I recently got a pitch from a PR rep offering me a new book to review. The book was pitched as a quirky fantasy story about real-life movie monsters, including Dracula, the Mummy, and the Wolfman, who stop snarking about … Continue reading
Recent on IGM
New short piece on my New York neighbors, Golden Ruby Games and their new Worm Run over at Indie Game Magazine. Their new game is a casual runner in which players help save space janitor Zeke Tallahassee from a space monster. … Continue reading
The Time Tribe
My friend Jerry wrote to tell me he’s working with a new game, and he thought it might be a good fit for me. “Oh yeah? Why’s that?” “Because it’s a point-and-click adventure game, with historically accurate game settings, edu … Continue reading
Cary Hellscape
Tonight I went to meet with some local game developers in an office complex in Cary. I was very excited to go, but not excited to drive through Cary. Cary is a special kind of terrible. About a third of … Continue reading
Longform
My editor at Geek sent all the writers a group email suggesting that we all feel free to go over our wordcounts whenever the subject warrants a longer piece. I responded with a longform essay on serious, indie games, because who … Continue reading
