- The Professional Game Manual Maker
[08.26.08]
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Belinda M. Van Sickle has one of those ‘other' jobs in the game industry, the kind that doesn't neatly fit into the designer-artist-programmer triangle. She is president of GameDocs Inc., a company that creates game manuals and documentation. In this interview, she explains why great game design documents matter outside of the development team as much as within it, and much more.
- Working in Japan
[08.14.08]
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Mark Cooke left the U.S. to pursue a game programming career at Guichi Suda’s (Suda51) Grasshopper Manufacture, a Japanese studio known for experimenting with stylistic boundaries in games. He explains how he set out on that course, targeting Grasshopper specifically as an employer, and what he’s had to do, linguistically, culturally, and vocationally, to pull it off.
- Ask the Experts: I'm Almost 30! Ack!
[08.11.08]
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A late-20-something reader asks if he's too old to go back to school, learn game programming, and start making video games for a living. Fear not! The senior citizen discount doesn't start until you're at least 65 (though AARP will send you pamphlets sooner than that).
- Op-ed: Women in Games: Who Cares?
[08.08.08]
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Brenda Brathwaite, an industry veteran who's also a game design teacher at Savannah College of Art and Design, is tired of being asked what it means to be a ‘woman in games,' because, she says, 'who cares?' So she called up a few male colleagues and asked them what it's like to be a ‘man in games.'
- No More IT for Me: How One Tech Vet Became a Game Programmer
[07.29.08]
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This is the story of how a 25-year IT veteran was able to break into the game industry. Robert Madsen started programming in 1979. In 2003, his 16-year-old son told him he wanted to become a video game developer, and secretly, Madsen realized that's what he wanted to do, too. Now, five years later, they're both making games for a living.
- Ask the Experts: Translating Video Games
[07.28.08]
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A reader asks what jobs are available to people who want to translate video games. To answer the question, we turned to Heather M. Chandler, an experts on localizing the content of games and other entertainment media.
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