About
I’m a junior at Washington University in St. Louis, double majoring in History and Marketing. Not sure what I’d do with the former, but as for the latter, I’m aspiring to work in the game industry in some capacity, probably in publishing rather than development. While I can armchair-design as well as any Internet personality, I’ve never been excited by the usual paths of game development, and I think my talents, skills, and perspective make me uniquely suited to work in publishing. There’s a lot that could be—needs to be—done better.
Along with everything I write for class, I also combine words and punctuation (sometimes with spaces in between) for Student Life, Wash. U.’s independent student newspaper, as our very first Video Game Editor. Since the position hadn’t existed before, I have a lot of freedom in terms of shaping our game coverage.
Aside from writing for the school paper, I also work as a College Representative for Ubisoft. I host special events for upcoming releases and drive promotion for Ubi’s titles around campus and online via Facebook. My first launch party was for Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. in March 2009, and I’m looking forward to the insanity of the holiday season.
My friends like to point out the whole “conflict of interest” thing—between covering games for the paper and hyping Ubisoft’s products. I can’t blame anyone for bringing it up, but it’s really a non-issue. For one thing, I don’t write reviews. Plenty of people do, and they’re all out there on the Internet for you to check out. Personally, I’m far more interested in interviews, local community coverage, and industry commentary and editorials. In any case, the day that someone comments on one of my articles that I’m “totally bias” [sic], I’ll know that I’ve truly made it as a game journalist.
This is a place for me to practice my writing, to post thoughts that won’t fit in a Twitter update, and to write for an enthusiast gaming audience, as opposed to the more mainstream style I use at Student Life. I apologize in advance for the excessive emdashes and at-times inappropriate alliterations.