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IndieCade East, 2015
Quick post on next year’s IndieCade, over at Gosu Tech: IndieCade East, the annual festival and exhibition of independent video games, will return to New York’s Museum of the Moving Image this February. IndieCade began as an indie games festival … Continue reading
Block, Block, and Block
I tweeted my link to my Depression Quest review the other day, and accidentally walked into the Zoe Quinn Twitter battle. I try to tweet my games journalism multiple times, because I’m a narcissistic attention whore, or working freelance writer, tick where … Continue reading
Posted in Chapel Hill, Game Reviews, Gaming Culture
Tagged Depression Quest, discovergames, game design, games, Indie Game Mag, Zoe Quinn
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No Way Out of ‘Depression Quest’
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
Posted in Chapel Hill, Game Reviews, Gaming Culture
Tagged Depression Quest, games, Indie Game Mag, indie games, serious games, text-based games
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From The #SXSW Gaming Expo
South by Southwest is almost a month of interactive, film and music shows, held annually in Austin, Texas. The festival is known for emerging music, launches of innovative tech startups, professional development sessions, and A-list keynotes, as well as for … Continue reading
23 Cents
Look, I’m not condoning Indie Game Mag’s new policy of charging developers for reviews (now revoked, but the damage to IGM is pretty much done) in an attempt to make the magazine profitable. I think charging for reviews is a … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming Culture
Tagged games, games journalism, IGM, Indie Game Mag, my other wrting
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I’m (Not) Sorry: Thanks, Indie Game Magazine
I’m Sorry: The Rise And Fall Of The Indie Game Magazine is written by Mike Gnade, the founder, former owner and former E-I-C of Indie Game Mag, and posted by Chris Priestman, another IGM alum, over at Indie Statik. This … Continue reading
Posted in Chapel Hill, My Other Writing
Tagged Chapel Hill, games, Indie Game Mag, indie games, Indie Statik, my other writing
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Neocolonialism
Neocolonialism is Seth Alter’s new strategy game of economic control and dirty politics. I wrote about Neocolonialism’s Kickstarter for IGM, back in January. The game’s out now, so I interviewed Seth for GamerHub.Tv: What was your main goal in developing and … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming Culture, New York City
Tagged game design, gamerhub.tv, games, Indie Game Mag, Neocolonialism, New York City
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Sky Horse Interactive in IGM
Indie Games Mag’s newest issue is out, including my interview with Dave Stafford from Sky Horse Interactive. This is issue 34, which kind of blows my mind, because my first piece for IGM was in issue 3.
Posted in Chapel Hill, Game Reviews
Tagged Chapel Hill, Game Reviews, games, Indie Game Mag
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That Time I Had To Talk To Strangers
I recently interviewed Emily Farquharson of the International Geek Girl Pen Pal Club for Geek Insider, as well as Spiderweb Software’s Jeff Vogel for Hardcore Droid, and Sky Horse Interactive’s Dave Stafford for Indie Game Mag. Even though I got … Continue reading
Posted in New York City
Tagged Geek Insider, Hardcore Droid, Indie Game Mag, New York City
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