the other thing i did while i was in new york was zinefeast at suny purchase. i did a super-exciting panel with annie mok and olivia horvath, who are both super rad, and i met a bunch of other cool artists, like meg powers. we came home with piles and piles of zines! we also brought [...]
so i was invited to speak at the first-ever different games conference in brooklyn, april 26th and 27th (at the “nyu-poly” campus, WHICH FELT ODDLY APPROPRIATE). let me tell you, first of all, some cool things they did. shortly before the conference i emailed them, concerned about their security policy which required folks to wear [...]
well, if i’m gonna make one sequel, why not do another. this one’s the follow-up to put on your make-up in the dark – a game based on a terrifying true story. this time you’re doing your nails. i played with the format a bit – instead of time limits, you’re given ten colors and [...]
the thrilling sequel to FORBIDDEN SPACE – a game i made for my friend andi’s birthday that runs silently on your desktop, screaming at you if you dare to press the spacebar even once. my slut suggested this variation, which i think may be even more interesting: the spacebar is allowed, but the BACKSPACE KEY [...]
luna announced that she was planning a dating sim jam this weekend. SMART GIRL THAT SHE IS, she never defined what “dating sim” means, leaving it deliberately ambiguous. what she made was a game about her first date ever. i played it and decided i wanted to make a game about my first date with [...]
after friday’s romero’s wives reading, i unwound by delivering a post-partum of my game dys4ia with liz. parham gholami was gracious enough to not only record the thing, but to edit it – my slides weren’t quite working, so there was a little fumbling. you can download the audio recording right here, and the transcript is below. [...]
the GDC of the past week – the annual game developer’s conference in san francisco, but this year i decided it was going to stand for GIRLS DEMAND CHANGES – has been the most stressful of my life. it has also been the most empowering of my life, the one where i felt the people [...]
this game began as a conversation with jake eakle about a mutual problem we’ve faced: trying to fit yourself and the two people you’re dating into a bed that’s not designed for three people. in such a way that all three people can actually sleep. my own unhappy solution to the puzzle involved a futon [...]
this all started one weekend i was staying over at slut’s house – that’s how long ago this was, we weren’t living together yet. we were lying in bed together, reading a choose your own adventure book out loud to each other. specifically, it was “YOU ARE A MONSTER.” this particular volume begins with a [...]
my friend andi was really excited that nasa was hosting a game jam on her birthday. she wanted to rope a bunch of us in to making games with her thirtieth birthday – then she found out that you had to book tickets months in advance. BULLSHIT. not to be deterred, she had a bunch [...]
