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\"A Level 2 Ready-to-Read about careers in the video game industry (video game writer, video game animator, video game programmer)\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Video Game Writing
This insightful, revised book explores the challenging and evolving world of the games writer. Part I provides a fascinating overview of the history of games writing following its humble roots in the '60s to today's triple-A titles; Part II asks and answers the key question: what does a games writer do and how do they do it? Especially useful reading for novice game writers, its chapters cover a broad range of topics including contracts, NDAs, creative collaboration, narrative design, editing, adaptations, and environmental storytelling. Part III, of particular value for more advanced students of writing, addresses deeper theoretical questions increasingly relevant in today's games titles, including: Why have story at all? What is plot and how does it work? How best can a writer use agency? Finally, Part IV presents readers with hard-earned nuggets of wisdom from today's game writers working in the US, Europe, and Japan. Packed with practical samples, case studies, and exercises, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the world of games writing.Features:* Covers history of games writing, narrative design, storytelling, plot, contracts, and packed with practical samples, case studies, and exercises* Presents readers with opinions and suggestions from today's game writers who are working in the US, Europe, and Japan* Includes a broad range of topics e.g., creative collaboration, editing, adaptations, and environmental storytelling* Mentions games such as Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Borderlands 2, The Walking Dead, L.A. Noire, Grand Theft Auto V, Mass Effect 3, The Stanley Parable, The Last of Us, Alien Isolation, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Life is Strange, Until Dawn, Quantum Break, BioShock, World of Warcraft, and more.
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How to become a professional video game designer
Howcast - Learn how to become a professional video game designer from gaming industry expert Anthony Castoro in this Howcast video.
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STEAM jobs for gamers
Do you love playing video games? Did you know you can get a job helping to create one? There are more jobs for those who love gaming than you probably ever realized. From animators to script writers, readers will learn about various STEM and STEAM gaming jobs and what it takes to get one-- Provided by publisher.
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How to become a video game tester aka QA tester
Howcast - Learn how to become a video game tester, known as a QA tester, from gaming industry expert Anthony Castoro in this Howcast video.
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Video game developer
A look at the skills needed for this job and what the job entails on a daily basis.
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Get in the game!: careers in the game industry
Have you dreamed of obtaining a game industry job? Get in the Game will help you achieve this! This friendly guide shows you step-by-step how to prepare yourself for a game industry career. With insights from over a dozen industry experts, it¿s the only guide you will need for training yourself then finding a game industry job. Discover how to research, meet the right industry people, access the unadvertised job market, sell yourself, create the perfect demo, beat the competition, handle interviews, and negotiate a salary package. This book will show you how to tailor your job search, answer tough interview questions, transition into the game industry from other careers, hone essential resume writing skills and networking skills. It¿s a crash course on everything you need to know about the game industry! You will learn about the following careers; Game Designer Game Programming Game Artist Game Production
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Game anim : video game animation explained
\"Hints, tips, and best practices for creating video game animation learned from some of the largest and most successful video game productions in the world. This book de-mystifies the animation side of game development, explaining every step of the process while providing valuable insights and work philosophies for creating the best animation for beginners and professionals. Taking readers through a complete game project and featuring workable examples and interactive tutorial scenes, this book provides clear understanding of game animation fundamentals and explanations of the very latest in cutting edge technology and techniques to provide a holistic approach to the field of game animation\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Steering More Women to Silicon Valley
[...]that was the program’s goal: to provide women with a summer’s worth of work experience so they’d have a shot at a career. Within the past year, top executives have resigned after sexual-harassment claims were made public at Uber, Social Finance, and the venture capital fund 500 Startups, while an engineer at Google was fired after circulating a memo questioning the value of gender-diversity initiatives. Bringing more women into computer science on the college level has required an effort to change cultural perceptions of the field, according to Marie desJardins, a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. Ms. Koyyalagunta had no idea she would enjoy computing until that day in the Duke neuroscience lab when she first worked with code. [...]I was asked by someone to do something and I was forced into it, I didn’t realize how much I would love it,\" she says.
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