Tag Archives: games
Latinists in Space
There’s a new and ongoing Tumblr of gorgeous Mars probe images captioned in Latin. I love the immediacy of space image social media (like the Col. Chris Hadfield blog) blended with the medieval university feel of Latin descriptions. COLLES TARTAREI Via … Continue reading
Tipping The Cows
My friend Greg from college is now a game development professor, and I’m a games journalist, so I interviewed him for thalo about his students, his projects (which sometimes involve tipping cows) and indie games in general. Guess all that time we … Continue reading
Evolve, Transcend and Flourish
Jerry Bonner, the new Indie Gamer Guy over at Indie Gamer Chick, is amazing games journalist and really insightful games writer. Like here, in his latest piece: I believe that more entirely narrative driven games where there are no weapons … Continue reading
Social Gaming
After I showed Grumpy Goats to my game design students, we had a discussion about elements of Facebook games, and I showed them World of Secrets. One might not think a Facebook hidden object game lends itself well to a … Continue reading
Star Trek: Rivals
Harold and I were reading in the coffeeshop when he came across this little feature on “Star Trek: Rivals” in Star Trek magazine. We were so thrilled to see it! We’ve been writing social content for the game for a … Continue reading
Specialized Skills
When I was in college, I was often asked what I planned to do with my degree in classics. No career counselor had suggested that studying classics is preparation to move to China, and that living China is preparation for … Continue reading
Indie Development at Geek Girl Con
I’m going to be speaking at Geek Girl Con this fall, discussing women’s experiences in game development on a panel with some amazing women, and I’m also talking about press kit hacking for indie devs. “Press Kit Hacks for Indie … Continue reading
Flavortext Superpower
As part of the class in game design, we ask the students to come up with unique, descriptive titles for their completed games, and to write other game text like a one-sentence summary or a brief instructional screen. Usually I … Continue reading
Recent posts
I feel like I’ve not written very much here recently, so here’s a roundup what I’ve been doing: I went to ECGC and heard game writer Tracy Seamster tell me that reading PostSecret and eavesdropping on the train is totally part … Continue reading
Still Life With Fail Fire
Teaching children is hard. I’ve written before about the industry codeswitching between developers and journalists, and trying to keep dev jargon out of my pieces for enthusiast publications. With the kids, I try to say things like Will your player … Continue reading
