The Spinappy Newsroom

Meet the Spinappy Editorial Team

Real humans, real reviews. The editors below are the people writing, vetting and signing every featured review on Spinappy. Each carries a public profile so you know exactly whose taste you are reading.

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Maya Lin

Editor-in-Chief

Maya has been writing about browser and indie games since the late Flash era. She owns the editorial calendar at Spinappy, signs off every featured review and authored our public Editorial Standards document. She is also the byline on our methodology and industry-analysis pieces in the blog.

  • Industry analysis
  • Platform reviews
  • Editorial standards

school 12+ years writing about browser and indie games

mail[email protected]

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Jordan Reyes

Senior Editor — Action, Arcade & Sports

Jordan came to editorial through QA on a mid-sized console publisher and now runs Spinappy’s coverage of fast-twitch genres — action, shooter, racing, arcade and sports. He writes most of our input and control deep-dives.

  • Action
  • Shooter
  • Arcade
  • Racing
  • Sports

school 6 years pro QA + 4 years editorial

mail[email protected]

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Priya Shah

Senior Editor — Puzzle, Strategy & Simulation

Priya has a background in cognitive science and tracks the slower, brainier categories on Spinappy: puzzle, strategy, simulation, card, word and idle. She also serves as the fact-checker on every review that touches difficulty curves, scoring or progression systems.

  • Puzzle
  • Strategy
  • Simulation
  • Card
  • Word

school 7 years freelance + 3 years staff editor

mail[email protected]

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Theo Park

Editor — Mobile-first, IO & Casual

Theo focuses on what actually plays well on a phone in a browser tab — the .io games, casual loops and short-session arcade titles that make up most of our mobile traffic. He came to editorial from the multiplayer .io community side and writes our genre-history pieces.

  • IO
  • Mobile-first
  • Casual
  • Arcade

school 4 years studio community + 3 years editorial

mail[email protected]

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Lena Vasquez

Editor — Adventure, RPG & Story

Lena covers the long-form end of the catalogue: adventure, RPG, story-driven and platformer titles. Her background is in tabletop and narrative design, and she leads Spinappy’s coverage of any game where pacing and writing matter as much as mechanics.

  • Adventure
  • RPG
  • Story
  • Platformer

school 5 years narrative writing + 3 years editorial

mail[email protected]

How we work

Our methodology — how a game gets selected, scored and signed off — is documented publicly on the Editorial Standards page. We update reviews when a game changes meaningfully (new content, broken on a major browser, etc.) and we mark the revision date on each review header.

Press inquiries, tip-offs or pitches: [email protected].