SGWNews:07/27/06 Anne Toole and Chris Klug at Comic-Con
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Article at StargateWorlds.com
by Khatie
From Gamasutra:
"At a Thursday morning panel at Comic-Con International entitled "Writing for the Computer Gaming Industry," Anne Toole of Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, currently doing pre-production work on the Stargate Worlds MMORPG slated to coincide with the television program, was frank about the lack of writing positions at game developers.
"I went to a Game Developers Conference," said Toole, "and while I was there, I learned that while everyone wanted writers in games, nobody wanted to pay for them."
"Toole, at the time a freelance writer with experience in daytime television, found a backdoor into her position. After heavily networking at events, conferences and parties, Toole got a call out of the blue, asking her to rewrite a game script over the course of a weekend. From there, staying in the games industry was cake; getting in is the hard part. And for a position as against the grain as an in-house writer, finding work is often a great deal more complicated than simply applying for a job."
