How to Become a Game Journalist
Yahtzee offers somehelpful advice about how to get into videogame journalism.
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How to Become a Game Journalist
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Plus also I have this idea for a game too. Its like a FPS but wait! When you shoot the player becomes the bullet and you can steer it to hit the target or other stuff! It will also has RPG elements so you can level up you're bullets with more speed or hats or sounds. It could even be an MMO!
Job, please!
Job, please!
I thought it was Susan who handled the pitches and new submissions. Which explains her highly-practiced ability to say "Aw, hell no!"LTK_70 said:
I was wondering if the article was going to take this tack or go for the more delightfully brutal 'You'll spend 10x-40x the time on the source material that a movie reviewer does and get 1/10th to 1/40th of the respect because "You just play games all day."' Alternately a "playing games:reviewing games::sex
orn sex" angle, which would leave an excellent opening for calling the audience a bunch of tragic virgins.
Um... Not to poke holes in your advice, but if you have about four people claiming that your writing is perfect, doesn't that mean that your writing isn't terrible enough?
He means perfect for games journalism of course... like perfectly awful. Not totally ineligible but still devoid of quality. PERFECT!lacktheknack said:
Ayuh. Though the skill it's developed is more of an open-mouthed stare, followed by "You have got to be kidding me."Formica Archonis said:
In truth, the vast majority of the pitches I get are fairly ordinary. I reject about 96% of pitches I receive, but usually for very mundane reasons - it's not a good fit for the audience, it's something that's been done to death, we've already run something along those lines fairly recently, or the writer just isn't all that good. The jaw droppers are relatively few and far between, but they do certainly leave an impression.
Imho the curve to the "No, this is just hilarious anti-advice." appearance is too flat. Takes too long for quite a bunch of people (yes, I've had two people believe this was legit until they were 3/4 through the text already) to realize it's not taken to be by the letter ...
Not that I disagree with the advice of course.
Not that I disagree with the advice of course.
OH! That makes sense.Ragsnstitches said:
So, the best reference one can use for the required writing style is "My Immortal", the infamous Harry Potter fanfic?
Can I get a confirmation on that, Susan?
Not to be insulting but those people need to learn how to engage their ability to think critically. The first thing Yahtzee says after giving the 'not bad advice' assurance is "So, the first thing you need to know about video game journalism is that don't, whatever you do, be good at writing." I'm sorry, but if Richard Petty told me "So, the first thing you need to know about NASCAR is that don't, whatever you do, be good at driving." or C. Everett Koop said "So, the first thing you need to know about surgery is that don't, whatever you do, have a steady hand." my BS meter would peg.FEichinger said:
Sounds like a perfect match for the "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" liscence which is still rocking the box office. That whole little gag with the Yosemite Sam gun needs it's own game. You should probably submit this idea to Disney ASAP....Dastardly said: