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Mayflies, Collage, and Music in Super Chop Games’ Ephemerid

Posted on August 17, 2014 by Meg

Super Chop Games’ new iOs release Ephemerid is a musical game, but fortunately, very little of it involves tapping in time with the background music (Ugh. How is that a genre?). Instead, players explore a paper collage world of flowers, … Continue reading →

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No Way Out of ‘Depression Quest’

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Meg

I’ve decided to share a post I wrote for IGM last year about text-based Depression Quest. There’s an ongoing conversation about depression and suicide, and talking about games is also how I like to talk about feelings. Depression Quest is … Continue reading →

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Enjoying It Wrong

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Meg

Some days, it’s hard to like things. I’m super excited about this latte! I say, and the internet laughs back at me, a stupid (white, thirtyish) lady with my cliched Starbucks drink. Dumb for enjoying the foam patterns and the … Continue reading →

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Saturday With Harold

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Meg

Star Wars Pez Dispensers On Saturday, Harold and I went out to Winston-Salem to pick up some Star Trek toys communicators. Apparently there still are some Trek collectibles that he doesn’t own! He’d dome some kind of trade with the … Continue reading →

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Free Free Free To Play, Pay Pay Pay To Win

Posted on July 13, 2014 by Meg

Indie studio Elevate Fun’s new free-to-play iOS Game, FFFFF2P, is Free Free Free Free Free To Play. Like most free-to-play games, you can, of course, pay to win. Free Free Free Free Free To Play smartly satirizes the usual free-to-play … Continue reading →

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PanemVille: The Hunger Games Adventures

Posted on July 6, 2014 by Meg

The Hunger Games novels suggest so many good games — a minigame hunting prey with Katniss’ arrows (a popular choice for the middle-school girls in my game design classes), a crafting and survival game like Lost In Blue set in … Continue reading →

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Hachette v. Amazon

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Meg

I became interested in Gil McNeil’s A Good Year For The Roses because it’s set in a small British village, and that’s all it took to interest me. Also gardening. But I bumped it to the top of my NetGalley … Continue reading →

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The Silent Age

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Meg

The Silent Age is a point-and-click (I mean, point-and-tap) iOs adventure from House on Fire, a small game studio in Denmark. Joe is a janitor on an average day in 1972, cleaning up on in a high-security government lab when … Continue reading →

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You Win or You Drive

Posted on June 8, 2014 by Meg

My coworker SuperDan lent me his Game of Thrones audiobook to listen to on my long commute to the studio.  It’s just great, and has really helped me deal with the drive. My team are all massive fans of the … Continue reading →

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Tappy To Flappy

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Meg

Sometimes it’s awkward to be both a writer and a developer, but reading what my GrabIt colleagues wrote about what my Epic colleagues made isn’t one of those times. … Known for driving blockbuster console titles like Gears of War … Continue reading →

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