These last few months have given me a wild ride, one which I never would have expected. I say it all started with my love for the OnLive Gaming Service and the technology it presented. I didn't think a lot of people understood what this technology meant for gaming, including developers and publishers of video games. I would reach out to varous individuals involved in gaming and would try to tell them how amazing streaming video games was. Never before have we seen On Demand gaming like this. It started with Twitter, then Facebook, then LinkedIn, and grew to e-mails, phone calls, and more. I started getting inside scoop that other other people craved. At that point OnLiveFans.com reached out to me and asked me to write my first article for them. Combine this with the Kinect Fitness group I was leading and everything started piecing together in some amazing ways.
So just in the last few months, I have had the opportunity to interview some of the biggest gaming studios in the industry. There is more to come, but here is my video game interview portfolio so far:
So there you have the interviews I've done so far. I've gotten better, but I also know there needs to be a bit more polish. Overall, I feel pretty good with what has happened in just a few months though.
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Showing posts with label interviews. Show all posts
Friday, November 4, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
My Game Interviews So Far This Year
So this has been an interesting year for me. After I got home from the hospital in February, I really started taking a liking to the OnLive service. This twist has gotten me more connected to the gaming industry in the last few months than my over 20 years of gaming ever has. Just some very interesting happenings and all of a sudden I'm writing about something I love...gaming.
My first interview was a little rough because I was so new. It was to feature the game Astro Slug by Bit Barons. Here is the interview: (Astro Slug)
The next interview was for a much larger game, FEAR 3. This was my first experience dealing with a huge studio. Warner Bros was the publisher, who I had to go through, and Day 1 Studios was the developer. Because I didn't know how many questions to send over and how to phrase them, the interview appeared a little short. (FEAR 3)
The interviews after started to get a little more meaty. Not only did I ask about the games, but also about the process of getting them to the OnLive service. We also found out a little more about what it means to be a publisher, a developer, a distributor, etc. Here is my interview with the French publisher, Focus Home Interactive (Focus Home)
Recently, OnLive got a lot of good press from the whole GameStop and Deus Ex debacle. What happened was, OnLive put a free game code in every retail PC copy of Deus Ex. The free code was for the same game on the OnLive service. GameStop saw this as a threat and opened up the games, took the code out, trashed the code, and then sold the games as brand new to their customers. Lots of folks were upset about this and lots of folks were introduced to the OnLive service. Combine this with OnLive giving out free consoles at PAX Prime and many new players were coming over. It just happened that I had a nice interview for Deus EX as well: (Deus Ex)
My most recent interview comes from a game that I didn't think I would be into as much as I am. Tropico 4 rolled out this past week and I am in love. The game is all about you running a tropical island however you want to run it. Lots of things take place on this island and it is up to you on how you want to manage it. The music is great, the visuals are soothing, and the game is addicting. Here is my interview with the fokls at Kalypso: (Tropico 4)
So I'm having a blast getting to talk to these folks and learning more about the gaming industry. Look for more articles coming soon. Tomorrow should be another from the makers of Space Marine. Later should be ones from Dead Island, Hard Reset, Batman, Lord of the Rings, and much more.
My first interview was a little rough because I was so new. It was to feature the game Astro Slug by Bit Barons. Here is the interview: (Astro Slug)
The next interview was for a much larger game, FEAR 3. This was my first experience dealing with a huge studio. Warner Bros was the publisher, who I had to go through, and Day 1 Studios was the developer. Because I didn't know how many questions to send over and how to phrase them, the interview appeared a little short. (FEAR 3)
The interviews after started to get a little more meaty. Not only did I ask about the games, but also about the process of getting them to the OnLive service. We also found out a little more about what it means to be a publisher, a developer, a distributor, etc. Here is my interview with the French publisher, Focus Home Interactive (Focus Home)
Recently, OnLive got a lot of good press from the whole GameStop and Deus Ex debacle. What happened was, OnLive put a free game code in every retail PC copy of Deus Ex. The free code was for the same game on the OnLive service. GameStop saw this as a threat and opened up the games, took the code out, trashed the code, and then sold the games as brand new to their customers. Lots of folks were upset about this and lots of folks were introduced to the OnLive service. Combine this with OnLive giving out free consoles at PAX Prime and many new players were coming over. It just happened that I had a nice interview for Deus EX as well: (Deus Ex)
My most recent interview comes from a game that I didn't think I would be into as much as I am. Tropico 4 rolled out this past week and I am in love. The game is all about you running a tropical island however you want to run it. Lots of things take place on this island and it is up to you on how you want to manage it. The music is great, the visuals are soothing, and the game is addicting. Here is my interview with the fokls at Kalypso: (Tropico 4)
So I'm having a blast getting to talk to these folks and learning more about the gaming industry. Look for more articles coming soon. Tomorrow should be another from the makers of Space Marine. Later should be ones from Dead Island, Hard Reset, Batman, Lord of the Rings, and much more.
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