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MuseHack: Connecting Talents And Positions!

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OK gang!  Welcome to one of our experiments here at MuseHack – a way to connect people and talent!

So do you need geek talent for your convention or your company?  Are you looking to promote your talent and find jobs or nonprofits for your own skills?  That’s what this is about!

Well, here’s our latest list of people who need talent and juicy job postings gathered in our news scans, and some talented individuals you may want to snatch up for freelance work, your con, or other efforts.

We’ll also need to know what you need, what you have, and what you’ve got going on!  Be sure to contact us for the next post!

LOOKING FOR TALENT:

Consumer Reports Needs Content Team Leader:

The Electronics Content Development Team Leader will be contributing to content strategy across multiple media and platforms (digital, print, mobile, etc), with the common goal of fully engaging the CR audience. Not only about what is “now,” but what is “next.”

https://jobs-consumers.icims.com/jobs/2210/content-team-leader%2c-electronics/job

Administrative assistant at Gygax Magazine

Important Update: Gygax Magazine is looking for a new employee in the San Francisco Bay Area—Berkeley. The role will be assisting our Chief Editor Jayson Elliot.

As Jayson explains, “This role is for an office assistant who will answer emails, help customers get their orders, service advertisers & distributors, and assist me (Jayson) with scheduling and day-to-day operations. Being handy around WordPress is a bonus, but not required”

The position is part-time (about 15 hours a week) and paid.

For those interested, you can get more details by contacting djinn at gygaxmagazine dot com

At: https://www.facebook.com/GygaxMagazine/posts/439790036119323

ANY AND ALL:

Operation Hammond:

http://operationhammond.com/wp/?page_id=35

Operation Hammond is a non profit organization of like-minded individuals within the anime, sci-fi, fantasy and pop culture convention community dedicated to bringing awareness of first aid, emergency preparedness and training to people who attend and staff anime, sci-fi, fantasy and pop culture conventions. They’re looking for all kinds of volunteers, and you don’t have to have medical skills to help out! A great way to network and meet people and do something for your community.

 

LOOKING FOR WORK:

Artist:

MlleBienvenu is a freelance illustrator and cover artist. She has worked in many different digital art styles ranging from traditional to anime.

Links:

mllebienvenu.daportfolio.com

mllebienvenu.deviantart.com

mllebienvenu(at-sign)gmail(dot)com

Multimedia Artist:

Looking for paid or light unpaid work of almost any kind; digital or traditional illustration, design, or photography, are just a few that I have experience with.  I am highly motivated and learn quickly and will never deliver substandard results.  Partial portfolio under construction at www.oliviahinkel.weebly.com and constantly updating.

Can be contacted at this address thelittleoh(at-sign)gmail(dot)com

Writer:

Aspiring fantasy writer looking for any writing opportunities.  Writes on video games (platforms, RPGs, some shooters, beast raising/fighting).

inukao2004(at-sign)gmail(dot)com

 

LOOKING FOR BLOG POSTS:

Gamasutra wants to hear about alternate funding methods for game developers:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/197032/A_call_for_blogs_Funding_your_game.php

Gaming’s Tower of Babel

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A few weeks ago I discovered Rogue Legacy, a brilliant indie game that instantly became a time sink for me over vacation. I even reviewed it at NerdCaliber. No, I haven’t finished it – yet – but it is a fascinating study in getting a game “right” in a way where people “get” it. Also I want to finish it but I started a new job . . . and Cubeworld.

Rogue Legacy is a fusion of several elements:

  • Roguelike randomness (deriving from the early random-dungeon game Rogue).
  • Sidescrolling castle exploration of the “Metroidvania” type (reminiscent of some Metroid games and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night)
  • Brutal difficulty common to both of those games and popularized in the hardcore games Demons’ Souls and Dark Souls.
  • An aesthetic reminiscent of other hardcore games, Ghosts and Goblins and Ghouls and Ghosts.

Basically you go into a randomly generated castle, explore, die, and then a randomly generated set of ancestors are available for you to take on the journey again to get far enough to win – usually after a lot of descendants.

Now if you’re a gamer like me, you’re already responding to rods like “Roguelike” and “Metroidvania” and “Hardcore.” My choice of words – and Rogue Legacy’s ancestry – speak to powerful and popular concepts in gaming. In short, Rogue Legacy’s designers speak the language of people like me, and a language with years of history. They know what some of us want and how to do it and communicate it.

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A Quick Look at Chromecast

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Yes, Google’s got it’s new dongle/gizmo Chromecast out.  It’s a wireless HDMI gizmo that lets you stream to your TV.  So really, it’s using your TV as a second monitor, which some of us do anyway.  However the Chromecast is also $35.00

Consumer reports does a great analysis.

To me, it’s interesting as it seems to:

  • Speak to an audience who is computer, not TV centric.  I’m that audience, and I get it – that TV is a big monitor.
  • Be remarkably restrained.  This is a small gizmo, not a big device.  If Google is going small, this opens up many opportunities.
  • Completely confuse and conflate TV, web, streaming, and TV.  Which may be the point and is kind of inevitable.
  • Would be REALLY interesting if paired with Steam.

Sounds like Google has some interesting plans.  Let’s watch this.

– Steven