Posts Tagged ‘writer’

Game Designers Actually Write?

Game Writers Aren’t the Only Developers Who Need Writing Skills
“Game designer” is an oft-misunderstood label that, like all labels, sometimes fails completely in describing the variety and depth of tasks tackled by the many talented people who fall into this bucket. Many times game consumers and friends have told me they thought game designers were [...]

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A Game Job: Not for Everyone

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

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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Out of town

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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Game artist: caught clipping

A game artist goofup
A game artist has a hard life.
You spend years – nay, a lifetime – honing your skills and craft. You sketch incessantly, driven by your passion for visual expression. You paint, you sculpt, you design, you draft.
After your traditional art training, you pick up the digital tools of creation. Your fingers [...]

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The videogame writing smackdown of the month

The videogame writing quandry
Videogame writing often gets overlooked in the modern videogame development process. There’s no hiding from the raw facts.
From EGM’s review of Alone in the Dark for Xbox 360:
AITD wants to emulate the presentation of serial television, but neither the writing nor the “performances” compare to even TV’s least-essential shows. Certain events benefit [...]

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JJ Abrams’ Lost Thoughts on Creativity

JJ Abrams’ Lost Thoughts, get it? Ha ha… sorry. Anyhow, a friend recently turned me on to TED.com, a site where you can view talks from the cognoscenti from all sorts of incredible fields and backgrounds.
On TED, I recently found this entertaining and thoughtful lecture by JJ Abrams, the creative guy behind Lost, Cloverfield, Alias, [...]

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