List it as a skill- show samples of your writing Most of the people I know, started in QA, Stepped up to design. The writing seems to be handled by the designers. I'm sure the Huge studios have dedicated guys, but I would bet a coke that they all came from design. good luck
Thanks a lot. I'll go through those podcasts. It's nice hearing that writing is often part of the design team's job. Will make it easier to sell myself as a man of all work.
+1 to everything low odor said. The main story has actually been a very collaborative process between a good portion of the teams I have been on in the past, and then cleaned up and fleshed out as development went on, by once again, the designers. At a bigger studio, we only had 1 dedicated writer and it was for a very…
I'm trying to get my portfolio ready to hunt down a job in games, and my skills aren't all visual. I've written copy professionally and I've done a lot of personal fiction writing and roleplaying world design. I think my writing skills could work well for video games (and I know small studios appreciate multi-skill…
Thanks. The branching options dialogue is a good idea. I have some experience there as I've table topped a lot (live players force you keep your options open). I haven't got much script format stuff but I can generate a few bits to show off. And I'll look into the modding community. I've started tinkering with Skyrim…