Super stoked to announce my first contribution to The Magazine is now live! I wrote this fun piece about a group of seriously dedicated Star Wars enthusiasts working to build a full-scale replica of the Millennium Falcon using crowdsourcing online. There’s a touching and funny love story woven throughout the piece too. If you haven’t heard about The Magazine, it’s a very cool site/app that runs a slew of interesting articles every two weeks. ABSOLUTELY worth paying $1.99 a month to subscribe – which also gives you access to all of the back issues.
Posts Tagged ‘Feature’
Full Scale (Building the Real Millennium Falcon) Feature (@The Magazine)
June 6, 2013Kickstarted Beer: The Craft of Crowdsourcing a Brewery (@ Draft Magazine)
January 7, 2013
“The craft beer industry is the latest to benefit from the recent crowdfunding boom: Websites like Kickstarter let anyone pledge financial support to help creative entrepreneurs bring their ideas to fruition. In exchange, backers get access to unique rewards for their patronage. Music, publishing, and film industry projects are popular draws on the platform, and now the craft brewing community is getting in on the action…”
Check out the full article here at Draft Magazine.
8 Apps for Surviving Holiday Hell
December 28, 2012
“Each year, the last week in December brings joy, camaraderie, and goodwill to lots of people around the world, but the holidays don’t always go as smoothly as we anticipate. For those times when everything goes to absolute hell and the best-laid plans fall apart, you’d be surprised how easily a few thoughtful apps can turn things around. Whether you’re stranded en route to your family gathering, ready to throttle you loved ones, or dealing with a kitchen nightmare, we’ve got your app 911 right here.”
Check out the full article here at Mac|Life.
8 Awesome Geeky iPad Gifts (@MacLife)
December 19, 2012
“Still scrambling to wrap-up your holiday shopping craziness and can’t quite find the perfect gift for that favorite geeky person in your life? Don’t fret. We’ve got our fingers on the pulse of the coolest nerdy tech around. From the crazy to the clever, here’s a saucy selection of iPad gift geekery that’s bound to titillate that special someone who takes their iOS addiction very seriously.”
Check out the full article here at Mac|Life.
10 Years of Xbox Live Feature (@OXM)
November 5, 2012
So awhile back I spent a solid month working the second of two massive print features for Official Xbox Magazine – about a dozen interview and several solid days of writing later, I wrapped up a massive 10-page piece on the 10 year annivesary of Xbox Live. That piece was published in the Holiday 2012 issue of OXM (on pg 36) alongside a few smaller pieces I wrote for the issue, which just hit newsstands. Psyched! This is my second big print feature for the mag – I wrote a similarly epic length article on how to get a gig in different areas of the gaming industry that ran in the Nov. 2012 issue. I’m pretty stoked, so I figured I’d share. Thanks!
8 Apps for Autumn Nature Watching (@MacLife)
September 14, 2012
“For those of us who live up north, that crisp fall air is already starting to slowly creep in as the days and nights grow cooler. Summer is winding down, but one of the best things about the impending changing of seasons is the gorgeous blasts of color that will soon spread across the lush natural terrain as the trees transform and shed their leaves. It’s a beautiful time of year. Whether you’re already in the thick of it or prepping for a trek to scope out some beautiful autumn vistas, here’s a great collection of apps for your inner leaf peeper.”
Check out the full round-up here at Mac|Life.
8 Ways To Follow The Olympics (@MacLife)
July 29, 2012
You don’t have to be a huge sports fan to be pumped about this year’s Olympics, and it’s officially kicking off tonight with what’s will no doubt be an extravagant opening ceremony. The 2012 London Olympic Games promises to be a landmark event, and we can’t wait to watch the grand showing of athleticism, camaraderie, and spirited competition unfold. If you’re on-the-go and can’t be in front of the TV to catch all the excitement — or simply want to dig deeper into the action — we’ve got your back with a selection of handy apps and websites to access on your iPad to make sure you don’t miss a beat of the Summer Olympics.
Check out the full article here at Mac|Life.
Dyad: The Tale of a Man and his Machine (@Polygon)
July 24, 2012
Holy crap guys! My first article for Polygon. Super stoked! I interviewed Shawn McGrath, the awesome dude behind Dyad, and worked up this massive feature that digs deep into the game and the crazy DIY machine he build from scratch to show it a trade shows. I strapped into the thing myself way back at PAX East 2011, and it left an impression on me, to say the least. Really glad I was able to travel through time and work up this mega feature.
Scope it out right here at Polygon!
Indieverse: Penny Arcade Adventures Returns to Xbox
July 6, 2012
“Like most things that rise from the dead, the Penny Arcade Adventures series is a very different creature from what it once was. But for the creators of the popular gaming webcomic and new cohorts Zeboyd Games (the two-man indie studio tapped to complete the once-doomed episodic series), it’s good to see their creation finally walking within the realm of the living.”
Check out the full feature here at OXM.
Shop Talk: Freelance Workspaces Volume 1
June 22, 2012One of the coolest things about being a freelancer is you can work from anywhere: a corner of your bedroom, an underwater sea pod, the middle of the woods, wherever. Putting together your ultimate workspace is a lot of fun, and I’ve always been fascinated with seeing how other writer folks, particularly people in the game journalism world, setup shop. As a fascinating experiment to indulge my own curiosity as much as anything else, I recently put out a call to fellow freelancers in the game journalism community to share photos and thoughts about their own personal writing spaces. Here’s the first batch. Enjoy!
