As a teenager, Richard Garriott spent hours huddled in his bedroom closet writing computer games.
All these fantasy authors whose fiction I began reading in junior high and high school are now writing video games.
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In high school, Maples started writing video games for PCs and then went to Stanford where his room-mate was Joe Liemandt, who founded client-server software maker, Trilogy Software, in Austin.
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Writing about video games and technology everyday means that I (hopefully) get better at the writing but also I piece together an understanding of where the games industry is today and what opportunities and dangers it has in the future.
Writing about video games for a living, it can be tough to get truly excited about new releases at times.
Programmes can do a passable job writing up baseball games, and may soon fill parts of newspaper sections (those not sunk by free online competition).
What the writing in video games needs is characters you can relate to, choices that affect the game world and choices that affect what is immediately around you.
Writing about video games, I often comment on how developers seem intent on making games so much like movies they lose many of the qualities that make games unique and wonderful.
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He wrote his first code, a how-to guide to juggling, then started writing reviews of software games.
Wags are already writing off the 2002 games as another Atlanta, where corporate dollars will overshadow the Olympic spirit.
"Nobody really cares about the name, they just want to put on a suit and fight evil, " says Emmert, who worked his way through grad school writing role-playing games and taught classics at Ohio State.
"Nobody really cares about the name, they just want to put on a suit and fight evil, " says Emmert, who worked his way through grad school writing role-playing games and teaching classics at Ohio State.
Jonathan Frye, a doctoral degree candidate who is writing his dissertation on video games and player types, said that when he started his program at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development he had to ask permission to take classes at the university's Tisch School of the Arts.
Games journalist Nathan Grayson, writing on the Rock Paper Shotgun website, praised EA for keeping players informed through Facebook, Twitter and discussion forums about the problems.
Writing on the Rock, Paper, Shotgun games news site Alec Meer said it was always likely that the game would be funded given the amount of "backlogged adoration" for Planescape.
Those figures were given to me by the games industry consultant Nicholas Lovell who is writing a book about the freemium model and its impact on various media industries.
To your right is an open-air lounge with plush orange sofas, a coffee table stocked with games like Monopoly and Pictionary, and a white-washed writing desk that serves as a freestanding bar offering an array of cooling drinks.
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