Posts Tagged ‘videogame 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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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: 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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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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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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Game Writer: London Edition
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under game writer
By popular demand, here is a first sampling of some of the images and musings from my Europe trip. I’ll keep them coming- and keep them short and sweet.
So, yeah, I decided to pull the trigger and visit my friend Sue in London and my cousin in Dublin. It’s not the off-peak flight period I’d [...]
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Out of town
Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under game writer
Game Writer Land posting has slowed to a crawl because of a little vacationing. Here are some sample images. Hope you all are well.
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