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Polygamer #31: Holly Green on Gameranx, Fry Scores & OCD

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Ken Gagne
Holly Green

Holly Green is the managing editor of Gameranx, a video game news, reviews, and feature site. Not one to limit her outlets, Holly is also an accomplished freelance writer for outlets such as Polygon, where she detailed her challenges with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Most recently, Holly published her first cookbook, Fry Scores: An Unofficial Guide To Video Game Grub, listing real-world recipes for fictional foods. After an initial launch as an Apple iBook, a successful Kickstarter allowed the book to be recently ported to the Amazon Kindle format.

In this episode, Holly and I discuss freelancing for one publication when employed by another; the ethics of being a game reviewer and Kickstarter backer; her photography setup for shooting food; the difficulty in translating among the various e-book formats; how gaming achievements prey on OCD; and how game developers can be more conscious of neuroatypical gamers.

Stream the audio edition of this interview below or from Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Overcast, Pandora, Pocket Casts, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, RadioPublic, or the Internet Archive. Click past the jump for links to resources mentioned in this episode.

Links mentioned in this episode:

  • Holly Green on Twitter
  • Gameranx.com: Top Rated Games, Reviews and News
  • Date Night with the Dialogue Wheel #37: Polygamer‘s Ken Gagne
  • Fry Scores on:
    • Apple iBooks
    • Amazon Kindle
    • Kickstarter
    • Twitter
  • Interview: Holly Green, Making Video Game Food a Reality — Gaming Enthusiast
  • Every last bottle cap: How my OCD turned collectibles from distraction to obsession — Polygon
  • Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
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Posted in Podcast | Tags: Amazon, cookbook, cooking, ebook, ePub, ethics, Fry Scores, Gameranx, Holly Green, iBooks, Kickstarter, Kindle, kitchen, obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD |
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