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Hello everyone!
I found this forum when I was looking around for some place to make friends with sci-fi writers!
I'm a Swede named Temaran and I'm a computer programmer (C++) by trade. I work as lead programmer at a Swedish technology company I also do a lot of consulting, mainly in computer game companies.
I've worked on a couple of AAA and indie games in the games industry, and I've released a couple of small games on niche markets.
I'm also an avid sci-fi and fantasy fan. My favourite Sci-fi is probably either the foundation triology, Dune or something from Alistair Reynolds. When it comes to fantasy, I think I've read most of the most popular stuff. I'm currently working through GRRM after not being able to resist anymore (I decided I would watch the entire series before going into the books.. Well.. Yeah.. That failed). My favourite was RJ and the Wheel of Time until I turned 19, when I started reading some older stuff from the 70's and 80's (Think Thomas Covenant books etc.) and kind of abandoned WoT like most people seem to do. I currently don't really have a favourite fantasy, although if I had to choose an author, I would probably settle on Brandon Sanderson as my current favourite. Not necessarily because he's that good (in any category really, especially not the prose), but more because I really enjoy reading his work on some basic level, and also he's so prolific!
In regards to games, I enjoy mostly old-school RPGs like Planescape: Torment and Baldur's Gate and tactical games like XCOM UFO defense and Jagged Alliance 1 & 2.
I'm really into post humanism and futurism when it comes to my own small forays into the writing craft, and while I've never published any of my own stories I have several published technical translations, mainly Japanese->Swedish and Japanese->English, and I try to get at least one of these published per year to keep my Japanese sharp.
So this is my open letter to you hard sci-fi writers!
I'm looking for someone to team up with when it comes to game creation!
The last three years I've been working on a dream project of mine, with heavy emphasis on story-telling as well as the core game mechanics that draw inspiration from games such as Jagged Alliance, XCOM and Frozen synapse, but since I'm not a (good) writer myself I decided I need to make a friend that could help me out with that part while I concentrate on the code.
The person I'm looking for should be something like this:
* You like these types of games (CRPGs, Tactical turn based games)
* You like writing hard science fiction touching on topics such as trans-humanism, futurism, STL space travel etc.
* You have written hard sci-fi before, and ideally have published something (although this is not necessary, I'm more interested in you having cool stories to tell rather than having gotten them published. Although, if you have published works, that probably means you're good, which is always a plus!)
* You have some time to kill for the forseeable future (Game development, like novel writing is a lengthy process)
* You wouldn't mind spending some of this time creating games with me
* You are okay with not being paid for this work right away. I have made money from my games before, but there is no budget for this project except the private funds I push into it. I use this money to pay for smaller, subcontractable components such as sounds, models, textures and sometimes concept art / illustrations. For the core posts, like the art direction and writing, I really want something more permanent however, which is why I want to make a good friend and business associate that is excited enough about the project to want to work on it even though there might not be any money in it before we get actual funding or release something.
* I'm 30, so the closer you are to that, we more stuff we probably have to talk about
* You like to create fictional worlds, lore and history
It's worth mentioning that writing for games is very different to writing novels or other prose since the player is a part of the story.
If you think writing like this sounds like a fun challenge, that's also of course a big plus!
If you feel that this describes you, please drop me a message and let's talk!
Best regards,
Temaran
P.S.
If you find this post presumpteous or otherwise strange, then I apologize in advance
I couldn't really come up with any other way to make writer friends, except for maybe going to parties and cafes and harassing people, but this seemed a bit more reasonable compared to that o_o.
I found this forum when I was looking around for some place to make friends with sci-fi writers!
I'm a Swede named Temaran and I'm a computer programmer (C++) by trade. I work as lead programmer at a Swedish technology company I also do a lot of consulting, mainly in computer game companies.
I've worked on a couple of AAA and indie games in the games industry, and I've released a couple of small games on niche markets.
I'm also an avid sci-fi and fantasy fan. My favourite Sci-fi is probably either the foundation triology, Dune or something from Alistair Reynolds. When it comes to fantasy, I think I've read most of the most popular stuff. I'm currently working through GRRM after not being able to resist anymore (I decided I would watch the entire series before going into the books.. Well.. Yeah.. That failed). My favourite was RJ and the Wheel of Time until I turned 19, when I started reading some older stuff from the 70's and 80's (Think Thomas Covenant books etc.) and kind of abandoned WoT like most people seem to do. I currently don't really have a favourite fantasy, although if I had to choose an author, I would probably settle on Brandon Sanderson as my current favourite. Not necessarily because he's that good (in any category really, especially not the prose), but more because I really enjoy reading his work on some basic level, and also he's so prolific!
In regards to games, I enjoy mostly old-school RPGs like Planescape: Torment and Baldur's Gate and tactical games like XCOM UFO defense and Jagged Alliance 1 & 2.
I'm really into post humanism and futurism when it comes to my own small forays into the writing craft, and while I've never published any of my own stories I have several published technical translations, mainly Japanese->Swedish and Japanese->English, and I try to get at least one of these published per year to keep my Japanese sharp.
So this is my open letter to you hard sci-fi writers!
I'm looking for someone to team up with when it comes to game creation!
The last three years I've been working on a dream project of mine, with heavy emphasis on story-telling as well as the core game mechanics that draw inspiration from games such as Jagged Alliance, XCOM and Frozen synapse, but since I'm not a (good) writer myself I decided I need to make a friend that could help me out with that part while I concentrate on the code.
The person I'm looking for should be something like this:
* You like these types of games (CRPGs, Tactical turn based games)
* You like writing hard science fiction touching on topics such as trans-humanism, futurism, STL space travel etc.
* You have written hard sci-fi before, and ideally have published something (although this is not necessary, I'm more interested in you having cool stories to tell rather than having gotten them published. Although, if you have published works, that probably means you're good, which is always a plus!)
* You have some time to kill for the forseeable future (Game development, like novel writing is a lengthy process)
* You wouldn't mind spending some of this time creating games with me
* You are okay with not being paid for this work right away. I have made money from my games before, but there is no budget for this project except the private funds I push into it. I use this money to pay for smaller, subcontractable components such as sounds, models, textures and sometimes concept art / illustrations. For the core posts, like the art direction and writing, I really want something more permanent however, which is why I want to make a good friend and business associate that is excited enough about the project to want to work on it even though there might not be any money in it before we get actual funding or release something.
* I'm 30, so the closer you are to that, we more stuff we probably have to talk about
* You like to create fictional worlds, lore and history
It's worth mentioning that writing for games is very different to writing novels or other prose since the player is a part of the story.
If you think writing like this sounds like a fun challenge, that's also of course a big plus!
If you feel that this describes you, please drop me a message and let's talk!
Best regards,
Temaran
P.S.
If you find this post presumpteous or otherwise strange, then I apologize in advance
I couldn't really come up with any other way to make writer friends, except for maybe going to parties and cafes and harassing people, but this seemed a bit more reasonable compared to that o_o.