The final post in this series! You will face many obstacles to your writing   Stories of getting in. Mine was broadly outlined in the article linked back in part 1, but I can give a bit more detail to that specific part of the story, in case it will help. When I first decided […]

This weeks continuation installment of how to get into game writing contains the most important bit of advice in the whole shebang! Using Tools!   The next step in developing yourself to be ready when the moment comes along: write game mods. There are a number of toolsets you can get that will allow you […]

So you’ve identified the kind of games you want to work on, and learned all you can about those. You’ve told everyone you want to write, and are willing to work on projects, so long as you’re not exploited. Now what? Here, Pan critiques some of my writing. This week’s blog is a touch scattered as […]

What’s your favorite kind of game? So the first step – making sure you’re ready when the time comes. To begin: identify which kind of games you really like and play obsessively, as you will have a context for those games that you lack for others. When getting started, you will need lots of context […]

Bring weapons! This post got longer than I’d like, so I’m going to break it into five parts. I’ll put up one a week. I am often asked how one gets into writing, and the question is more complex than you might think. Just about everyone I know who works as a game writer got […]