Grumpy Gamer

DECEMBER 31, 2012

It’s always hard to write your own about pages. I am the co-founder of Humongous Entertainment where we made some amazing adventure games for kids like Putt-Putt , Freddi Fish and Pajama Sam. I should have my mom do it, she always has nice things to say about me. A game about a pirate. I was the producer of Total Annihilation.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 5, 2024

Larian Studios' title was nominated in five categories, including Best Game of the Year, Best Writing, Best World, and Best Music. Remedy Entertainment's Alan Wake 2 saw nominations across the same five categories, with Melanie Liburd receiving a nomination for her performance as Saga Anderson.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2025

Yes, absolutely. Localization devs do a great deal of the same kind of work that narrative designers do.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 9, 2023

After being left out, the entire writing team for Horizon Forbidden West has been credited on the title's Nebula Award nomination. When the adventure title was named as a finalist for game writing , developer Giles Armstrong took to Twitter to voice his concerns at the lack of accreditation. Read more

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 5, 2024

Alas, I feel compelled to write about it. It's a hard thing to write about. But I have a whole lot of my own personal skin in this game, and I've been writing and speaking on this exact topic for a long time. I've Been Writing About This For a Long Time Who the hell am I anyway? It's painful. Lost livelihoods. Lost homes.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 12, 2023

Top image: Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles, made by Tomas Sala As an artist and game developer, I have witnessed the gaming and entertainment industry evolving rapidly over the years. Why do fantasy authors write series consisting of many books? Because you stick with it!

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Microsoft made the reasonable request that SIE begin collecting documents from agreed-upon custodians at various points during the negotiations, including in writing on January 26 and January 31," Microsoft said in a document filed earlier this week. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 30, 2023

Evaluate the potential value of transmedia or 360 exploitation of the game’s IP beyond digital entertainment. “The exploitation of game IP beyond digital entertainment is a growing trend. If they guarantee a marketing budget, put it in writing. “Test the publisher’s commitments in the contract.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 16, 2023

Xbox boss Phil Spencer announced the arrangement via Twitter , writing today that the two platform holders have "signed a binding agreement to keep Call of Duty of PlayStation following the acquisition of Activision Blizzard." Read more

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The departure announcements of not one but two industry icons in a single week juxtaposed with a woman taking the reigns at a leading firm suggests interactive entertainment as a whole is gearing up for its next decade of growth. Letting in some fresh air would certainly help with middle-aged musk that permeates boardrooms still. Delicious.

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iHobo

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

International Hobo Ltd is proud to announce the release later in 2022 of Park Beyond , a revolutionary new theme park sim game published by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment and developed by our friends at Limbic Entertainment. They focus on PC and next-generation console games developed with Unreal.

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Excited to announce that our panel Creating Touchstones in Emergent Narratives will be part of SXSW Online 2021 under the track Transforming the Entertainment Landscape. Juliana Loh is an independent Producer/Artist whose background includes branded entertainment, UX, and art direction and health (mental health awareness).

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

One day I discovered video games could be much more than just ‘entertainment products’, and fell in love with the idea of mixing all the things I loved about art in a new medium. Then I write down everything I consider relevant into spreadsheets to compare them all. This could be something like ‘Who is the protagonist?

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

The duo had recently departed from Relic Entertainment, where they had worked on titles such as Age of Empires 4 and Company of Heroes 2, to establish their own company, Lifetap Studios. Regarding the designing of traits, story elements, characters, mission objectives and dialogue writing, I took on most of that.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Recent reports include one from Skillprint (a company dedicated to science-based gaming), another from the Entertainment Software Association, and – about a year ago – a one from the National Institute of Health. ” Additionally, the researchers introduced non-gaming entertainments into the mix, to see how they compare.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

They can boost certain features to become even more entertaining and attract wider audiences. Reviewers may talk about the entertainment value and how fun it is to play. Here are the basic steps in creating a video game analysis: Determine Your Objective Why are you writing a video game critical analysis?

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 8, 2024

On his artistic side, Sithlu recalls writing little stories and poems in the back of his notepads but didn’t show them to people until one day in grade 10. “A That’s when I started writing more, getting into poetry. People think games are just for entertainment, but there’s so much potential. I have around 160 poems now.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Even as creatives in other entertainment industries continue to fight to make fair wages, a new front has opened in gaming as developers figure out what to do about Unity’s new fee structure. Starting in January 2024, Unity will introduce what it calls a ‘Runtime Fee’. billion last year.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

Following another big week in terms of headcount reductions, interactive entertainment is on track to shed a record number of jobs in 2024. As his own tenure comes to a close, Jim Ryan, President & CEO at Sony Interactive Entertainment, found himself tasked with announcing an 8 percent workforce reduction. Take Sony, for example.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Snow in Joburg Despite the heartbreak, she found joy in entertaining family with her sisters and friends after creating outfits with her grandmother. “I Motivated by this, she wanted to write something addressing loss, conveying that it’s not the end of the world and that life goes on. I need the laptop to write.”

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Matthew Farber, Juliana Loh, Kimberly Unger, and I headlined the Georgia Game Developers Association CIMFest last year with this powerful panel exploring how personal experiences empower narrative writing. Juliana Loh Juliana Loh is an independent Producer/Artist whose background includes branded entertainment, UX and art direction.

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Filmustage

MARCH 31, 2025

The entertainment industry witnessed a pivotal moment when script analysis tools powered by neural networks emerged, transforming how studios approach AI-generated content and copyright protection. Pre-writing Checks for Concept Originality Begin with thorough concept validation using AI tools to scan your initial ideas.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Industry Standards Overview The entertainment industry follows specific standards when presenting creative work. Free Sign Up Logline Development Process To write a good logline, you need a step-by-step plan, and this work starts well before you put words on paper. This piece explains the differences between these three formats.

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

Her writing credits include 1999 Independent Games Festival winner Terminus and the PC RPG of the Year, The Witcher, for which she was nominated for a 2007 Writers Guild Award in Videogame Writing. Juliana Loh Juliana Loh is an independent Producer/Artist whose background includes branded entertainment, UX and art direction.

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Beyond the big screen, the entertainment industry's hunger for fresh stories has never been more apparent. This vital tool, brought to life by skilled story analysts, continues to be celebrated as the cornerstone of modern filmmaking, leaving an indelible mark on how we discover tomorrow's entertainment. The biggest no-no?

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Game Design Aspect

MARCH 30, 2021

Here's the panel description: Title: Screenwriting for Games: The Challenge of Choice-Based Narratives When: Friday, April 9, 2021 Time: 2 PM Eastern Time From huge triple-A games to interactive online novels, engaging storytelling requires the right mix of imaginative prose and strategic writing.

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The Bottom Feeder

JULY 24, 2023

I've been writing indie games for a living for 30 years now and so have been shipping them continuously for longer, as far as I know, than anybody else, ever. People who DARE to want a functioning, entertaining game for their hard-earned dollars. (I’m An honest apology will defuse a lot of free-floating rage very quickly.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The media & entertainment (M&E) industry, particularly visual effects (VFX) and animation studios, greatly benefit from a Global File Systems. When you write data to an MRAP, the data is automatically replicated to all of the AWS Regions that are associated with the access point.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 9, 2023

Disrupting Education: Game Design’s Role in Shaping Future Learning The influence of game developers extends beyond the realm of entertainment. There is a lot of elitism in the world of entertainment and technology, and game developers are often not given the credit they deserve for their innovations.

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Filmustage

AUGUST 30, 2022

For example, a first for this category is the ability to write a scene synopsis. And the process of working with the script writing, its breakdown , and scheduling can stretch for weeks because of the manual approach to work. From streamlined writing and editing tools to the ability to plan the whole story. and $99.99

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Jaunty Bear Games

OCTOBER 9, 2022

However, these aren’t just simple remakes; they’re bringing new elements to old classics that keep players interested and entertained. Step 3: Write Code Once you have all of your assets ready to go, it’s time to write some code. This is where programming languages like Objective C come into play.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

BiliBili, a Chinese games and entertainment company, secured the rights to publish a mobile version of Fall Guys shortly after its release, but Mediatonic hasn’t announced any plans to release the game on mobile in the West. At the time of writing, there are five special emotes in the game: Punch, Slide, Hug, and Banana.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 18, 2022

Situation Number Two I write computer fantasy role-playing games. I write humor and video games to make people happier, and I'm not a sociopath. I don’t write to hurt people. And I'm still writing games with spiders in them. Hopefully it will provide you with interest and entertainment. What would you do?

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Game Daily

MARCH 28, 2023

Writing on Twitter, Sam Winkler, lead writer of Gearbox’s Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands referenced a bunch of negative outcomes from wide adoption of products like Ghostwriter. Nor did any of those jobs touch upon programmers, artists, animators, and other creative roles in digital entertainment. It’s f **g worth it.”

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Most scripts are rejected not because of poor writing quality but because their synopsis fails to grab the producer's attention. Screenwriters should feel encouraged because a proven formula exists for writing standout synopses. Only a small percentage of scripts submitted to major studios make it past the first round.

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Game Errors

MARCH 14, 2023

As of this writing, Blizzard Entertainment has not come up with a solution to this error. Wait for a Patch As I mentioned, both the Blizzard Entertainment Twitter page and official Diablo 3 forum are well aware of error code 24004 and have promised to release a patch soon. How to Fix Diablo 3 Error Code 24004?

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Gran Turismo (GT) Sport competitors are facing a new, AI-supercharged contender thanks to the latest collaborative effort from Sony AI, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), and Polyphony Digital Inc., This group collaboration in which we have built a game AI for gamers is truly unique to Sony as a creative entertainment company.

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