Thewhalehusband.com Website Review

STARBREEZE – The past month and a half has been eventful. I started my job at Starbreeze Studios, working as a writer on Overkill’s The Walking Dead. Just a few weeks in and we released the first official trailer, which is a cinematic featuring one of the game’s playable characters. Unfortunately, as those cinematics take a LONG time to produce, I had nothing to do with it, but it was still fun to be there The company is great, as are the people, and it’s hard to beat Swedish employee rights, which ensure eight hour work days, compensated overtime (very much not the norm in the game’s industry), and five weeks paid vacation. I’ve already written a bunch of cool stuff, the details of which, of course, I can’t yet share. As the game progresses though, and more details about the game become public, there will  hopefully be lots to share. I’d also, at some point, like to write a bit more about what the job of writing for an AAA game actually entails. It’s surprising that when you google “what does a game writer do,” there’s not much substantial info out there. I think a series of articles on the subject would be interesting to developers, aspiring FINLAND’S 100TH – At the beginning of December I flew to Helsinki to celebrate Finland’s 100th anniversery. Most people are surprised to hear that Finland has only been an independent nation for one-hundred years. Before independence, Finland did exist, but under the flag of either Sweden or Russia. Finland was sort of pas*ed back and forth between the two before Russia gave them independence in 1917, though they tried to take them back some years later. To celebrate Finland’s 100th, tuxes were rented, and fancy parties were attended. Finland is not known for sobriety, but on that night, there wasn’t a sober Suomalainen in sight. BUCKET DETECTIVE –  It’s 29% off for Steam’s Winter Sale. If some how you haven’t yet gotten it (what are you doing reading this OTHER PROJECTS – I’ve got several cool projects in the works, but I’d rather not mention specifics. Hopefully in the next few months