Growing up on Perfect Tides with Meredith Gran

Meredith Gran (she/her) is a comics artist and game designer, best known for her webcomic, Octopus Pie and the adventure game Perfect Tides. She sat down with me to talk about her experience coming to games from a comics background, how Perfect Tides’ mechanics where influenced by teenage naivety, and why the 00s are such a rich period for coming of age stories. Finally, we wrap up with a teaser for the upcoming sequel, Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

You can learn more about Meredith’s games and comics on her website.

Meredith’s Cool Things to Share
- Having a VHS collection with Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)

Things Discussed
- Perfect tides (Three Bees, 2022)
- Octopus Pie (Meredith Gran, 2007-2017)
- King's Quest (Sierra, 1984)
- I Like Movies (Chandler Levack, 2022)
- PEN15 (Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, and Sam Zvibleman, 2019-2021)
- Perfect Tides: Station to Station (Meredith Gran, upcoming)

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