I am giving this its own post because playtesting is how you tell if your game is playable, if people want to play it and what you need to do to fix this broken ass game that makes perfect sense in your head, but not so much to anyone who isn’t living in your head.… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #240 – Playtesting
So, I’m very nearly done with the first draft/playtest document of a hack of Joe McDaldno’s Monster Hearts, which is itself a hack of Vincent Baker’s Apocalypse World. I’m also finishing up the first real draft of The Novel, which is terrifying in and of itself. But what I’d really like to talk about here… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #239 – Writing Games
Ashes of Honor is the sixth book in the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire. As we all know I am an unabashed Seanan McGuire fangirl. She’s one of the few authors I actually DO try to by the first week the books are in print, in a brick and mortar store to help influence… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #238 – Review: Ashes of Honor by Seanan McGuire
So after the post where I was complaining about cosplayers making female analogs of male characters unnecessarily sexy, Lela Gwenn, a twitter follower and all around awesome person, told me of her plan to make a “Sexy Gambit” costume. Since I think a sexy female Gambit is perfectly in line with the Cajun’s personality, I… Read More Quick Post: Lady Gambit
I would like to begin this review by stating that I am not sure whether I want to hug Mr. Hodder or punch him. Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon, the third book in the Burton & Swinburne series (the reassurance on twitter that #4 is coming along, currently has me leaning toward hugging)… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #237 – Review: Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon by Mark Hodder
I’ve been nattering on a bunch about fangirls, celebrity culture seen through the nerd filter and attraction, be it to celebrities or people you might actually meet and interact with on a deeper level, and how those two types of attraction should ideally differ. And that has me thinking a lot about why Fangirl culture… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #236 – Male and Female Gaze in Nerd Culture
So I mentioned in the last post, that we played Miskatonic School for Girls (which can be purchased at Amazon) created by Fun to 11 Games a little over a week ago. It’s a cute game, cashing in on the popularity of Lovecraft themed anything. The premise is that each player has a “House” at… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #235 – Review: Miskatonic School for Girls
So, I finally joined the cult of the iPhone. I loved my Blackberry, but the battery was dying and Barnes & Noble were no longer supporting the Nook eReader software for Blackberry, so I couldn’t get to half my books, which was the last straw. Look, I’ll put up with my phone dying at inopportune… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #234 – We Are Everywhere and an Update on the Last Post
Ok, so I recorded this at Geek Girl Con and kept forgetting to post it because of cat emergencies, vacation and other stresses. In response to a question from someone on twitter, I asked Rachel Edidin to talk to me about feminist comics, amongst other things. http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2083718/height/360/width/640/direction/no/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/ In case the embedding doesn’t work, here’s the… Read More Geek Girls Rule! Podcast #29 – Feminism in Comics and Geek Girl Con
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