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the Dao of "games journalism"

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    AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    I wrote two paragraphs about narrative design and the player problem of returning to old saves in narrative-driven games you haven't played in a year. And then basically all of the notes I have written down after that are the movie references in Deadly Premonition.

    Writing is hard.

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    Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    no its not hard

    "No its not hard" boom you wrote something

    -matthew james perez

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    Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    leaving tips for any other tipsters

    twitter https://twitter.com/mperezwritesirl michelle patreon https://www.patreon.com/thatwronglove michelle's comic book from IMAGE COMICS you can order http://a.co/dn5YeUD
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    EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    It's

    -Bastard

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    King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Squall wrote: »
    Uriel wrote: »
    Faygo is literally the worst cola.

    but it's made right here, so it costs like 70c for a two liter

    find cheaper grape soda

    soda water and grape kool aid?

    I have a podcast now. It's about video games and anime!Find it here.
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    ProlegomenaProlegomena Frictionless Spinning The VoidRegistered User regular
    Edcrab wrote: »
    It's

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    SilmarilSilmaril Mr Ha Ha Hapless. Registered User regular
    Edcrab wrote: »
    It's

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    YES.

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    Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    thanks squall

    really if i could do a whole site based on shitting on self professed gamer "culture" id be okay with that

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    EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    "Journalism", "culture", "gamers"

    Yeah that's right I'm implying that gamers aren't even real, what of it

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    ProlegomenaProlegomena Frictionless Spinning The VoidRegistered User regular
    "Edcrab"

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    FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    You're "journalism"; so called: is simply affront for you're eleetist fashist rools with regardz too Inglish grammer?

    @Edcrab

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    SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    Squall wrote: »
    Uriel wrote: »
    Faygo is literally the worst cola.

    but it's made right here, so it costs like 70c for a two liter

    find cheaper grape soda

    soda water and grape kool aid?

    2L of sparkling water is more expensive than a 2L of faygo grape pop here

    come at like you dont even KNO iwrote my thesis on this shit goddamn smh

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    OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I wrote two paragraphs about narrative design and the player problem of returning to old saves in narrative-driven games you haven't played in a year. And then basically all of the notes I have written down after that are the movie references in Deadly Premonition.

    Writing is hard.

    Annie you're second-guessing too much

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    FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    Realtalk: I am being informed that I should try and write for realsies instead of just fucking around on forums and occasionally shitting out some slashfiction to amuse myself.

    How does one even begin such an endeavour?

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    EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    Write things that interest you, submit said writings to places that you think might be interested themselves

    Repeat for years and years and years

    (That's not me being flippant, the only real advice I'd ever give is that writing begets writing, even if you're writing about how you're not writing or can't think of what to write- that's still writing, and you can only get better at it)

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    OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    yeah, it's true. mechanically slap your fingers upon yon keyboard until you come out with something of note

    also read DFW, who i am convinced is the finest essayist ever to live

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    FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    No, no, I'm asking how to do it successfully and make mad cash.

    :rotate:

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    DuxDux A host to DarknessRegistered User regular
    edited April 2012
    Aaaaaah, there are so many articles I haven't read yet.

    Aaaah

    aaaah

    Dux on
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    EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    Fyndir wrote: »
    No, no, I'm asking how to do it successfully and make mad cash.

    :rotate:

    Find a tabloid newspaper

    Forget the meaning of the word "integrity" and drink away your guilt every night

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    FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    Edcrab wrote: »
    Fyndir wrote: »
    No, no, I'm asking how to do it successfully and make mad cash.

    :rotate:

    Find a tabloid newspaper

    Forget the meaning of the word "integrity" and drink away your guilt every night

    Does this still work if you can't drink, or is that required?

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    EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    Just walk around, dishevelled, with a pre-emptied bottle of whisky and people will think you're drunk

    Wait, that sounds too artistic to be something a hack can do

    Goddamn it, this is too hard, I want out of the advisory game

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    Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    An aside, should probably ditch the "pay contributors in the future" line

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    OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
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    Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    it doesn't look like it'll happen in any immediate measurable form

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    Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    I mean it seems more free form, grass roots

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    OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    well, it doesn't say 'immediately'

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    T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    plus nobody is looking for pay right now for it

    i would agree that it's not a necessary thing especially since long before payment occurs the site has to become self-sustaining

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    OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    i think it's important as a show of respect + good faith, but i'll bring it up with the ~foundaz~

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    JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    Is anyone writing about mobile games? My wife loves Fashion Story; she doesn't play games generally.

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    AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    I wrote two paragraphs about narrative design and the player problem of returning to old saves in narrative-driven games you haven't played in a year. And then basically all of the notes I have written down after that are the movie references in Deadly Premonition.

    Writing is hard.

    Annie you're second-guessing too much

    Yeah, I just haven't been in "get shit done" mode in a while, so everything is loft conceptualizing that just floats awaaaaaay

    Sara and I are eating dinner in this pub next to a table full of CCP World of Darkness MMO devs. "There should be, like, an ice cream truck, but it sells alcohol." Investigative journalism; you heard it here first, folks.

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    OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    go for it!

    i've just decided to work on a piece about the upcoming aliens game, because it looks toothless and like the people designing it don't have any idea what horror is

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Is anyone writing about mobile games? My wife loves Fashion Story; she doesn't play games generally.

    I'm working on something, but it's not about any game in particular, just about what makes a good mobile game you can play one-handed

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    T4CTT4CT BAFTA-NOMINATED NAFTA-APPROVEDRegistered User regular
    i don't think the upcoming aliens game is supposed to be horror

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Quoth wrote: »
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Is anyone writing about mobile games? My wife loves Fashion Story; she doesn't play games generally.

    I'm working on something, but it's not about any game in particular, just about what makes a good mobile game you can play one-handed

    :winky:

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    OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    T4CT wrote: »
    i don't think the upcoming aliens game is supposed to be horror

    well then it succeeds.

    but why would you use that franchise to make non-horror games? it's like making a silent hill restaurant management sim

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    JavenJaven Registered User regular
    I think I'm gonna write about all the ways stuff like the whole Mass Effect 3 backlash is a good thing.

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    OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    i would play a silent hill restaurant management sim, for the record.

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    DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    silent hill restaurant sim seems like it should already exist on facebook or newgrounds

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    FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    I suddenly have an idea for turning one of my old conversations with NAS into an article. I'm just not sure if I can be bothered.

    I wonder if he still has my comments saved in a document somewhere. Although I'm pretty sure I can remember most of the pertinent points.

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    That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
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    OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    you can be bothered.

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