Friday, February 12, 2010

Propositions

As a part of my final portfolio project, I've been asked to create a list of three potential projects.

Recently I was dumped. It sucks. I love this god damn girl, can't stand to be away from her and she can't even talk to me without bursting into tears. It's very sad, but anyways, a result of this rather unfortunate let down is that I've been full of angst, and generally quite moody. Aside from screaming at and throwing things into my wall, poetry has served as the only productive method of expressing myself in this trying time of my life. Thus, under duress of heartbreak my writing has turned to poetry for the first time in my life and I simply feel that now might be a good time to work on a compilation of poetry. I already have a number of compositions I've been working on, and would appreciate a critical eye to look them over. But, yeah. I guess I'm proposing the production of yet another compilation of depressed, youthful verse, like the world needs it.

I've always been a fan of the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe. It's got aliens, mutants, religious fanatics, powered exo-skeletons, space ships, daemons, xenocide, genocide, death and destruction on an epic scale in a future that knows only war. It's sweet. Anyways, I've always wanted to write a story in Warhammer universe, and would very much like to write a short story, polish it and submit it to be considered by the publishing arm of Games Workshop, who produces the game Warhammer 40,000, the Black Library. I wouldn't want to write anything but a short story. The problem with warhammer 40,0000 is that, of course, the rights are owned by a single company. Therefore, it would seem inprudent to write a full length novel that can only be published in one place. So, a Warhammer 40k short story then.

When I'm ever in Barnes and Noble, Borders, or whatever, if I go to the magazine rack I'm usually looking for something about video games. So I was thinking, seeing as a how my school is a veritable melting pot of game designers from across the country, where new games are constantly in the works, it might be cool to work on a ezine that focuses on finding out what games are being made at Champlain College. I could preview and review games, as well as profile some of the artists working on them. It would be interesting for me, and might help to facilitate communication between students within the game major, and beyond. I know for a fact that some of those kids are working on some very interesting, very unique projects that I think would be of interest to people whether they enjoy video games, or not.

2 comments:

  1. #3 is definitely the most focussed of the three, and though it's ambitious and might require collaboration with others, it would combine both your writing and game interests...

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  2. I also think number three would be the most interesting. I know a few people in the game design major who have blogs, but I think most of them review other games rather than write about their own. The people I know who do have their projects on the internet have them in more of a portfolio form. I think some of them would be really interested in a blog of this sort. If you end up doing this, let me know and I can put you in contact with at least two people who I'm pretty sure would want to be part of this.

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