I always find it a bit disappointing
when game writers and developers feel they have to tie up all the threads at the end of a game, it's often clumsy and unnecessary.
When games writer Jason Schreier recently wrote a Kotaku post expressing annoyance and fatigue with yet another set of unrealistic anime breasts in fantasy - action game Dragon's Crown, he drew a wave of ire — and even a homophobic gibe from the game's Japanese artist.
This is akin to
when games writers want to paint a gritty atmosphere and use 101 racist, ableist, or heterosexist epithets as a means of circumventing actual world building.
Not exact matches
«Your brain is wired not only to figure out where you sit in the professional and social pecking order against others, but to reinforce your position in that pecking order,» says
writer Steve Errey, who continues: «
When you get wrapped up in establishing or maintaining status, the moment your place in the hierarchy drops you're going to feel pretty horrible... Don't get into the status
game — there are no winners.»
Amid a discussion of the
writer - producers» Ultimate Fighting Championship fandom, Benioff and Weiss were asked
when fans can expect
Game of Thrones «s next - to - last season to debut on HBO.
Karen Littman,
writer, producer, and founder of educational computer
game designer Morphonix, says that
when she wants to help her employees be more creative, she takes them out of the office.
The San Francisco Giants» beat
writers had some parallel thinking
when it came time to write up Monday's
game against the Marlins.
Typical Arsenal fan article... a win against an average in a cup
game and suddenly Arteta and Flamini are top dogs deserving of a squad number... and
when we come across a half decent team and their limitations are exposed the same clueless fan like the
writer of this article will scream blue murder.....
So
when it takes him an hour to realize what bloggers and
writers knew before we had even played the
game, making changes that rectified decisions such as starting Barzagli at right back can hardly be a sign of his genius.
SENIOR
WRITER JOE POSNANSKI was born in Cleveland, a fact that many of his colleagues think explains his theory that our
games can transcend being just
games only
when we suspend disbelief, as Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued 200 years ago, and accept events that we ordinarily find incredible.
IN THE fall of 1980,
when SI senior
writer Lars Anderson was nine years old and living in Lincoln, his father took him to the Florida State — Nebraska
game.
Writer, Philosopher, Guitarist, Video -
Gamer, Offset Printer, Lover not a Fighter (Except
when Hockey applies) Happily Married Live in NJ but do not believe in Fist - Pumpin» or GTL.
Hill is scheduled to return Friday, manager Bob Melvin told the beat
writers before Sunday's
game, but the A's have been hopeful of Hill's recovery from injuries before — including
when they started him on July 17 only to have to remove him
when the blister popped before he could even record a result against his first batter.
for example Jones aves 7.5 clearances per
game which would be considered a important stat for a defender it is also the highest amongst Utd defenders but a blog
writer isn't using that stat
when giving a matchday rating
When he shared it with literary forums online he got about 10 readers, says
writer and
game critic Cara Ellison.
Like most of Lucy's book the Dating
Game, the advice in this chapter is confident, no - nonsense and ballsy... but is Lucy actually taking her own / ghost
writer's advice,
when it comes to her own love life??! I think we can probably already guess the answer!
Thanks to the work of the Roosh V Forum's Indian Race Troll, the subject of brown men and interracial dating has come under a lot of scrutiny.My fellow brown
writer bojangles wrote an excellent post entitled «6 Things Indian Guys Have To Understand
When Learning
Game» where the first point and perhaps most critical point he made was that...
When you're handling something as beloved as Batman or Game of Thrones, you just can't take the same chances, and Telltale's structure doesn't work so well when it's chained to an 800 - pound anvil made up of fan expectations, as much as the writers
When you're handling something as beloved as Batman or
Game of Thrones, you just can't take the same chances, and Telltale's structure doesn't work so well
when it's chained to an 800 - pound anvil made up of fan expectations, as much as the writers
when it's chained to an 800 - pound anvil made up of fan expectations, as much as the
writers try.
Designer and
writer by day,
gamer by night, Lauren dreams big
when it comes to creative endeavors.
Still, the
writer / activist is nothing if not adventurous, so
when an opportunity arose a few years ago for a trip to southwest Africa, he was
game.
When traditional publishing was the only
game in town,
writers grew up dreaming that someday they would be published by a traditional publisher.
Only
when Patrice starts commissioning other
writers does she start participating in the «
game».
You know the first thing they taught me as an aspiring
writer when traditional publishing was the ONLY
game in town?
If you have been around for at least a few years in the gaming industry, either as a
writer or just a fan of video
games you know there are two fighting
games that everyone mentions
when asked if they can name some, one is Street Fighter the other, is Tekken.
Staff
writer Kenneth Cummings, along with the collective video
game media, went bonkers for the
game when it came out back in May.
Pelling had been introduced to me by Corey May, a
writer I'd met
when he was scripting Assassin's Creed
games before leaving Ubisoft and joining 2K.
When seemingly original
game concepts take flight it's because existing communities of players pick them up — one
games journalist, for good or ill, is always talking to a community of players who must share some commonality of practice with that
writer or they would not read them.
I want to tackle the
game's myriad challenges in the order in which the
game's
writers decided was logical, not on an arbitrary basis as and
when I stumble across them.
We have since established a great working relationship with these
writers, and will definitely be calling on them
when the
game gets closer to release.
Contributor: A
games writer who battles everyday not to feel silly
when he tells people that playing a
game for two days straight so he can review it still counts as work.
Perhaps the worst example, for me, occurred
when former Star Trek Online lead
writer Christine «Kestrel» Thompson casually included a lesbian Klingon couple as supporting NPC characters in one of the
game's featured episodes — and a portion of the playerbase went absolutely apeshit with rage on the forums.
ALAN WAKE Developer: Remedy Entertainment Publisher: Microsoft
Game Studios Platforms: Xbox 360, PC Release date: «When it's done» About the game: Alan Wake is a third - person action - adventure game where you step into the uncomfortable shoes of Mr. Wake, a successful horror writer with a serious case of the writer's bl
Game Studios Platforms: Xbox 360, PC Release date: «
When it's done» About the
game: Alan Wake is a third - person action - adventure game where you step into the uncomfortable shoes of Mr. Wake, a successful horror writer with a serious case of the writer's bl
game: Alan Wake is a third - person action - adventure
game where you step into the uncomfortable shoes of Mr. Wake, a successful horror writer with a serious case of the writer's bl
game where you step into the uncomfortable shoes of Mr. Wake, a successful horror
writer with a serious case of the
writer's block.
When early previews of Space Marine surfaced last year, one line in particular caught my eye: a response from a Relic rep to a question from Rock Paper Shotgun about whether or not the
game - looking so much like Gears of War as the
writer felt - would contain a cover system.
MSH: So as a
writer,
when you went to adapt such a beloved and unique video
game world like Silent Hill or like Silent Hill 3 in particular, what was the most important element of that you wanted to keep intact?
Even
when games go on to get universally panned, if you look back at anything negative that was pointed out before release, the audience was jumping all over it and flaming the
writers.
it's not even a damn open world, it's more like a linear
game with branching paths much like castlevania / metroid sounds like the
writer just watched youtube let's play
when writing this article
Wesley Scott is a
writer and actor living on the North side of Chicago in a tiny studio apartment and spending his days playing video
games, reading comic books, watching television and occasionally going to his day job
when he needs a little cash.
Early last year we were visiting Brad in San Francisco
when he told us that they were looking at
writers for the
game and that we should apply.
When you put this together with the decades of tabletop roleplaying experience, our passion for board
games, our expert
writers and story tellers, I assure you, with your backing we are brilliantly placed to deliver some of the most compelling, deep and replayable
games ever to jump out of the indie
game development scene.
When your
game's script just isn't up to scratch, get a professional
writer to revise the text and polish it in line with any guidelines you provide.
Chapter 2 sees lead story
writer of Destiny 2 Jason Harris discuss the importance of the refuge environment named The Last City on Earth, while user interface designer MacKay Clark informs
gamers as to what the artistic aim was
when creating The Director; a feature in which the player could choose their next destination from a giant universe, coupled with amazing illustrations.
In a rather amusing way, the fourth installment of downloadable content for Gearbox's popular RPG - FPS, Borderlands 2, has been leaked
when the
game's
writer, Anthony Burch briefly tweeted an image of a fellow employee taking...
When attending events, speaking with developers, or requested to see a product, we will look at travel expenses, possible reimbursement for travel expenses, and or arrangements for our
writers to take time from their personal life in order to have a professional appearance (we will restrict this based upon outlets that we are not affiliated with or
game companies we may or may not cover).
There's rocking chair - bound old man Ulrira who suffers from shyness in person, but is a reliable source of help
when called from one of the island's telephone booths, or loner letter -
writer Mr Write who, as part of the
game's extensive trading sequence, you help find love with a goat named Christine.
When it comes to our usual
Game of the Year get - together on Pause Resume our friends and
writers send in their list with a couple of paragraphs and that's about it.
Designer and
writer by day,
gamer by night, Lauren dreams big
when it comes to creative endeavors.
A
games writer who battles everyday not to feel silly
when he tells people that playing a
game for two days straight so he can review it still counts as work.
Without money,
writers and staff are continuing to contribute in their free time, working all day to earn their living and then coming home to write articles that encourage readers to get involved and play great
games,
when they could indeed just be settling in to decompress and play a few themselves.
All of these
games were by Ron Gilbert, an underrated
games designer /
writer who doesn't get the credit he deserves in my opinion and who's
games gave me hours of enjoyment on my Atari ST
when I was a kid.
When the creators of Samurai Seige decided to build Rival Kingdoms, the team wanted to balance gameplay with narrative depth — which is why acclaimed
games writer Rhianna Pratchett took her pen to the project