by Dorian Karahalios | Apr 30, 2016 | Blog, Game Development, Writing
The first few hundred thousand hurdles of game development have been conquered and our game is out for early access! Break out the pizza rolls, unscrew the cap on the box wine, and party hardy! Everything’s hunky-dory! . . . except . . . well . . . there are some less...
by Dorian Karahalios | Apr 25, 2016 | Blog, Game Development, Writing
Lots of writers love spinning yarns, weaving words, and waxing poetic. Many of us are guilty for being given a line and taking a paragraph (or two!) We’re at home when our writing shows up as words on the screen and we love complex, witty, dialog. However, when that...
by Dorian Karahalios | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog, Game Development, Writing
“Gosh,” he galumphed as he suddenly stared daggers into the mirror. “I’m quite the white brown-haired male in his late 20s, aren’t I?” He rubbed his sanguine charcoal stubble and jumped out of the airlock of his spaceship . . . What’s in a Peeve? We’re all...
by Dorian Karahalios | Apr 11, 2016 | Blog, Game Design, Writing
It’s months or even years into the game development process and you’re struck with an incredibly haunting realization: your characters suck. They’re shallow and cliché, and worst of all, you’ve been getting feedback about how the writing is lacking. A good game writer...
by Dorian Karahalios | Apr 9, 2016 | Blog, Game Development, Writing
The clock has long since rolled past midnight and any hope of sleep has flown out the window, where the brightening blue of the impending dawn threatens to mark the new day. Your assignment is due on this new day, and instead of pages of progress, the mocking blink of...
by Dorian Karahalios | Mar 29, 2016 | Blog, Marketing, Writing
Gather round, children, and I will tell you the tale of Daniel (yes, the Daniel of Black Shell Media!), a game developer on a quest to create one bitchin’ retro rogue-like RPG. I was but a boy when this fabled developer wandered into my small writing subreddit with...
