A sign of a good and healthy community is not just its diversity but that people are willing to step forward and identify themselves. On Twitter, the very respected game designer Kenneth Hite recognised that he couldn’t name any female freelancers comfortable with tackling 5e mechanical design. All he did was ask people to tag […]
DM dad discovers his daughters are D&D pros in this viral tweet
James Breakwell, aka @XplodingUnicorn, has over 1 million followers on Twitter and is the author of the hugely popular Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent’s Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse. He has four daughters under the age of seven and this weekend he played D&D with them. I played Dungeons and Dragons with […]
4 reasons to follow Geek Native on Twitter
Geek Native is active on a number of social channels. If you’re not interested skip to the bottom to enjoy some stunning art from freelancer artist Maxime B that’s surfaced by CGHub.com when you search for Twitter. Twitter is the fastest blog to social network connection there is with a tweet going out within 15 […]
Making the most of #TwitterFiction Festival 2014: Twitter talks storytelling
You know Twitter. Even if you’re not on the platform; you’ll have writing and gamer friends on it. This blog has an account at @GeekNative and its used to share writing and connect with readers. You might not know that this year Twitter is running a #TwitterFiction Festival. You’ve until February 5th to submit your […]
6 ways to be a social Geek Native
Thanks for visiting the blog. There’s a growing community here and it’s great that you’ve stopped on by. If dropping the RSS Feed into a Google Reader alternative like Feedly is not your favoured way of staying in touch here are some suggestions. #1: Watch on Twitter by following @GeekNative. There’s limited chat from this […]
Twitter accounts to follow this International #TableTopDay
It’s International TableTop Day! You may well have noticed by now as the web is all a flutter about it. How is Geek Native taking part? This blog is covering the virtual side of the event. You might risk a peek at 5 RPG Kickstarters or even join one of 10 Google+ RPG communities and […]
Final Fantasy style Twitter Fail Whale
Here’s a geeky mashup if there ever was one. We’ve the fail whale of Twitter – and I love how “fail whale” is now part of our lingo. We’ve also got the classic Final Fantasy style. I think the two go very well together. I’m just not sure if this epic fail whale is a […]
Doctor Who boss Steven Moffat deletes Twitter account, replaced by imposter
Doctor Who fans started to worry today when lead writer and Doctor Who supremo Steven Moffat deleted his Twitter account. The concerns were manifold. Had the popular writer been harrassed off Twitter or was we preparing for some news that was going to be so bad, so upsetting to the Doctor Who Twitter community, that […]
BioWare’s Muzyka and Zeschuk invest in Empire Avenue
You might have encountered sites like Klout which attempt to measure how much influence you have on Twitter and other social media spaces. It’s a challenge; people are good at gaming the system. Step in Empire Avenue. It’s a stock market model that measures how influential people are but then allows players to buy and […]
Twitter friendly bike is @yesiamprecious
“Yes my precious…” belongs in Lord of the Rings, right? There’s no chance “Precious” might not related to the One Ring but to a bike? Certainly no chance that it could related to a bike with a brain that tweets its feelings to you. You sure about that? How could you not want to know […]