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Getting Hired in the Game's Industry — Technical Skills
This is a short post, one of several where I’ll toss out an idea or two to (maybe) help people get their foot in the door of the game’s industry. Technical Skills It does not matter what role you want to play for a game developer — storyboard artist, animator, writer, or producer — honing your technical skills makes you more valuable. Period. Too many applicants hope to land their dream position and are so focused on that they miss numerous other opportunities that would help get them into the company. Want to be a storyboard artist? Its going to be tough to land that position, especially with an established…
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How do you write?
After working many years with BioWare, much of those being spent helping to design tools that writers use, I’ve gained a fair bit of experience with understanding how creative types, create. As a writer myself, I’ve often used my own experience to help guide tool development and even created my own writing platform YourOtherMind . I have tried many things (different software, work methodology, et cetera) but over the last year I’ve stuck with a couple approaches that seem to be working well. Short Stories – Format Conversion Of course the biggest change in my writing process occurred about a year ago when I started doing all my writing within…
