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Avernum: Escape From The Pit

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Meg

I’m working on a review for Hardcore Droid of Avernum: Escape From the Pit, and as I played through, I took some screenshots of things I wanted to remember to include in my article. I took more than a dozen … 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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From A Player on Next Island

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Meg

Even though I’m no longer at Next Island, I’m still quite proud of the work I did in questwriting and dialogue, and I was really pleased to read this from a player: I started on one planet, made my way … Continue reading →

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Look, A Three-Headed Monkey!

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Meg

I’ve recently learned that it’s actually much harder to work How appropriate, you fight like a cow. into the dialogue for a tropical island game than Monkey Island might lead one to believe. Just in case you were wondering.

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Impressing The Ladies

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Meg

This mission, Professor’s Kardsten’s Journal, is one of the tutorials from Next Island, and Professor Kardsten, a book-loving historian, is a character I really enjoyed working up. Lots of the time, I wonder if players actually read through my dialogue, … Continue reading →

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Fantasy University Preview

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Meg

Fantasy University is an upcoming Facebook game from Simutronics Corp. (If you’re asking yourself why that name sounds familiar, it may be because you’re old enough to have played DragonRealms on AOL.) I’ve been playing the current alpha build —  … Continue reading →

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Kudos Demo

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Meg

I want to call Kudos a life sim, but that term carries the connotations of “TheSims knockoff” and Kudos is definitely not that. It’s a sandbox game, where your choices affect your next set of options. It actually reminded me … Continue reading →

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I can’t watch this!

Posted on August 18, 2006 by Meg

When Stick and I were in Qingdao, we stopped at a tiny DVD store, mostly so he could read the Chinglish. After a few months in Yantai, I’m usually so excited to see an English sentence, that I can over … Continue reading →

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