About Hi! My name is Matt and I'm an aspiring video game designer and video game journalist. When I was about 5 years old as a kid and saw the Nintendo Entertainment System displaying fantastic games on the TV I decided that's what I wanted to do, I wanted to make video games and be a game designer. Aside from making games, growing up reading game magazines I also had the desire to output my passion by covering video games to able to play a great deal of games and talk about them. What I liked about video games as a form of entertainment was that they had everything: graphics, story, music, and unlike books or movies, gameplay where the player interactived with the media. I'm looking for freelance work for video gaming websites and publications and video game related work. If you're looking for someone whose passionate about video games and enthusiastic writing about them contact me.To the right is sample work that I've written on my website. Contact: Matt makadv@msn.com 1UP.com blog Skills:
Writting reviews, previews, editorials, event coverage. More about me I grew up reading Nintendo Power magazine, absorbing all of the tips and tricks and finding out about new games coming out. I liked reading video game magazines so much that throughout grade school I would make my own photocopied magazines, containing hand drawn art, screenshots, tips, and comics as I imitated Nintendo Power. In High School I went for a professional approach and wrote up a newsletter in a word processor on a Mac, then used a copy machine to take art and screens from other sources to splice together a final copy to mail to a few friends. Later on as I read EGM I would find out that what I had been making were called "fanzines".
During High School and College I majored in Computer Science since the only way to actually make games beyond the design process is to program them. Around this time I gained experience with Blitz Basic, a great game programming language for concentrating on actually making games, and made a simple scrolling demo and map editor based on Secret of Mana.
Around 2002, I became involved with the Legend of Zelda fan community, helping a friend maintain a Zelda fansite, and eventually starting my own. Disinterested in only covering my favorite series, I started a blog in 2004 to write about video games in general.
Gamer's Adventure is my blog for writing about video games, everything from reviews to what I'm playing, and even posting edited game videos that I record. Updates will come at least once a week, and hopefully several times a week, as I constantly have things in my head to write down to talk about. |
Sample work Reviews
Previews
Editorials
Event Coverage
Videos (Recorded with a video capture card using Dscaler and edited with Sony Vegas.)
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