Posts Tagged ‘videogamewriter’

What happened to M. Night Shyamalan?

Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under pop culture

What the heck happened, M. Night Shyamalan? I just saw the ad for the new M. Night movie. It’s designed to look like some kind of andromeda strain movie. “There appears to be an event happening,” a man intones. This, according to our statistics, is the blandest, most uninformative, passive-voice piece of advertising ever recorded [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | May 26, 2008

Game developer subtly admits, “Our game writing was swill!”

Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under game writer

Game writing in the original Gears of War is one of my pet peeves*, and I haven’t unloaded that gem yet. However, I’d like to quote a little news nugget I found in the February EGM. In a teaser about Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360), page 59, developer Epic Games is emphasizing the writing. The writing? [...]

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Read more | Comments (2) | Jan 31, 2008

Game design goofup: goodbye, Devil May Cry 3

Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under game design

Game design has changed from the Dark Ages of arcade development. Back when arcades ruled the roost, a game designer could assume a few things about his* audience. They were under 18. They were male. They were playing in a movie theatre lobby or arcade. And they were really freakin’ bored. The classic arcade audience [...]

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Read more | Comments (3) | Jan 24, 2008