Posts Tagged ‘game’
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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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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Brain Design Central: TED Talk on Brain Manipulation
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under game design
Brain designer seems like a less interesting job than game designer, but it does have a certain ring to it. And let’s face it, your work is more likely to be described as “mind-blowing,” which is how I’d describe this TED talk from Rebecca Saxe, who studies the brain at the eponymous Saxelab at MIT.
The [...]
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Videogame Shoutout — From Sheep?
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under gameplay
Videogame Kudos to Atari, with Love, from Sheep
Okay, videogame fans, you’re probably thoroughly confused by now, but this one simply has to be seen to be believed. Extreme shepherding re-imagined as vibrant performance art.
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All Star Game 2009
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under pop culture
The NL Didn’t Have to Lose the All Star Game in 2009
The All Star Game 2009 is over, and the NL lost again. Good thing the Astros (the team that unfortunately has my witless loyalty) aren’t going to the WS, because now I don’t have to be angry about losing the 2009 All-Star Game.
Wait, I’m [...]
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Boxing Games and Fight Night Round 4
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under game writer
Boxing games are back. Fight Night Round 4 has been announced with a ship date – actually, a ship season – of “Summer 2009.”
It’s good to see this boxing franchise making another run. There’s also leaked video on Youtube of an EA representative comparing FN4 and FN3, which I also found encouraging. I loved FN3 [...]
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EGM Magazine is Dead
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under Game Writing
EGM Magazine Closed by Buyer
Well, EGM Magazine lovers… I feel guilty, although I probably shouldn’t.
On Jan. 7th, Ziff Davis announced that they’ve closed down the entire EGM magazine publishing operation, only days after my post criticizing the clipping problem they had on their Gears of War 2 cover.
Okay, I admit that there’s definitely zero correlation [...]
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