Posts Tagged ‘game writer’
Game Tester Job in Austin
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under game industry
Austin Game Testing Opportunity
We recently received notification of a need for game testers for Sony in Austin. If you’re interested in a game testing job in Austin, please fill out the contact form and we’ll pass it on to our contact at Nelson Technology. Please put the words “Game Tester” in the subject line.
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A Game Job: Not for Everyone
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under game writer
Do You Want a Job in the Game Industry?
Game jobs aren’t easy to land, and we get pretty regular inquiries about how to do just that for game writer, game designer, and other game industry jobs. The game industry is small, insular, and fiercely competitive. There are a lot of very smart people who would [...]
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The Avatar Movie
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under game writer
Game Writer Thoughts on Cameron’s Avatar Movie
The Avatar movie is all the rage right now, and with good reason. Here are my quick, spoiler-free thoughts.
Gorgeous. The Avatar movie is simply gorgeous. It feels real, although it does have a heavy Halo texture to it too. To be fair, Cameron’s already trod this territory very well [...]
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Best Halloween Costume Ever
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under pop culture
Credit for spotting this goes to one of my friends on Facebook. I can’t remember who but you’re welcome to identify yourself.
I grew up in a college town, and one Halloween our doorbell rang and we opened the door expecting to see trickortreater—but what was in front of our open door—was another door! Like, a [...]
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Game Designer Hopefuls, Read This
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under game design
Game Design Competition at SWSW 2010
Game designer wannabes, this is your opportunity, but you’ve only got a few more hours.
The Screenburn at SXSW Game Design Competition deadline is today. This is a two-phase game design contest in which you file an entry first, and then a followup presentation if you’re picked as a semi-finalist. Nice [...]
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A Game Hero Should Be Voiceless: Part Two
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under game writer
The Rude Game Hero
The voiceless game hero? He’s an ass.
Well, inadvertently. Have you ever noticed how a voiceless game hero fails to respond to mid-mission communications?
I recently finished Resistance on the PS3, and the game’s avatar, Nathan Hale, is a classic, cliche game hero with little to say and a lot to do. When he [...]
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A Game Hero Should Be Voiceless: T or F?
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under gameplay
Game Case Study: The Voiceless Hero
The typical game hero is mute. Have you noticed?
Especially in first-person shooters, your typical game hero is a stoic son of a mesh. He has an inhuman pain tolerance, miraculous healing powers, and can tote as much military hardware as a Sherman tank. But he can’t communicate. He’ll say a [...]
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Top Five Photos #2
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under game writer
Here are the other five photos from the European extravaganza. Hope you’re keeping up with the disjointed narrative, such as it is!
The Louvre from within.
Millennium Bridge headed toward St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Shoreline near Durdle Door, Dorset.
London at night.
The Princess Di-Dodi Al-Fayed memorial in London’s tony Harrod’s shopping emporium. I was amused by their wardrobe — Di [...]
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Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and the Future of America
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under music writing, pop culture
Had a Red Robin Gourmet Burger and Now I Am Nostradumbass
So your immodest game writer went to Red Robin, the burger chain, the other night. While the experience is fresh in my mouth (why does that sound wrong?), I feel I must crack wise about what Red Robin gourmet burgers tell us about the future [...]
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Uncharted 2 Steals Hearts
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under gameplay
Uncharted 2 and Naughty Dog Revive the Adventure Genre
The Uncharted 2: Among Thieves SKU and its action/adventure gameplay are dominating the ratings at Metacritic. Adventure games? Zork? Monkey Island? Indiana Jones? Hello again. We’ve missed you.
Uncharted 2 brings back Nathan Drake (Indiana Jones?) for another round of high-stakes artifact hunting, this time to the fabled [...]
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