March 2010
1 post
Single Player Palaver
Look! Two blog posts in quick succession; check me out. That said, this post was started fairly soon after the last one, it may yet take a while to finish. I started this out as a big old thing, and decided halfway through that there were a couple of topics that I wanted to cover. This part will be about the trend for single player titles to feature fairly redundant multiplayer elements.
On one...
February 2010
2 posts
L'art de Traducteur
I’ve worked as a writer at NCsoft for nearly two years now. Being part of the GPS (Global Production Studio) means I’m in the team responsible for turning Korean game text, and game worlds, into western-friendly game text and game worlds. Compared to other writing jobs in the games industry this might seem a little restrictive, however there are two games that have recently been in the...
November 2009
2 posts
When did this happen exactly?
I listened to a song a couple of weeks ago that really reminded me of another song that I couldn’t quite place. The strings were basically pulled directly (albeit transposed) and even the drums were almost the same, just slowed. Anyway, after trying to figure out what the original song was, it was eventually brought to my attention that it was Bruce Springsteen’s Streets of...
September 2009
2 posts
A quote I like.
“It is not in the nature of man-nor of any living entity-to start out by giving up, by spitting in one’s own face and damning existence; that requires a process of corruption whose rapidity differs from man to man. Some give up at the first touch of pressure; some sell out; some run down by imperceptible degrees and lose their fire, never knowing when or how they lost it. Then all of...
August 2009
4 posts
So, who writes what?
A good friend of mine linked me to this article a while ago, asking for my thoughts on it. For those too lazy to click the link, the article is all about how writing in games is being taken over by movie writers, and the industry is desperately in need of novelists to come in and save our poor, infant industry. The article is not subtle, and starts with the sentence “There aren’t...
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Hello, Internets!
Well, hello again, if we’re being technical.
See, I started a blog a couple of months ago, but wasn’t particularly happy with the layout and whatnot, and had login conflicts between two email addresses WHICH IS VERY INTERESTING. Anyway, hi! I have no-one reading this at the moment, so hi Conor, how you doing? Good thanks, you? Yeah good. Cool.
The big question that I was asking...