Video Game Writer

I've been exploring career options lately, as I've said, and one that came up in my head as an outside possibility was in the video game industry. Now, someone with my non-existent industry experience could really only start as a tester. That doesn't sound so bad, but where would I go from there? I never cared for computery stuff, I even shy away from the technical side of filmmaking. So I more or less ruled it out.

But then I was playing Resident Evil 4 and listening to the terrible dialogue (barely covered up by superb voice acting) and I though 'You know what video game production companies need? They need writers. Good ones, too. Not programmer/writers or modeler/writers but writer writers.

So I went online and I started looking for companies to pitch the idea of hiring a writer to. The biggest part for a writer is in RPGs, right? So I looked to the biggest producer of RPGs in the country (I'm not learning f'n japanese), BioWare, recently purchased by EA. Well, it turns out they already hire writers. Comes as quite a shock to me, the writing in their games sucks. But it's too bad, they want industry experience.

So I've looked up a few other companies (I actually noticed Rockstar was hiring a 'cinematographer' for the gameplay in ads and I applied), but so far nothing looks very promising. I should probably tell this story to Capcom and see if they hire me, but I don't think companies respond to 'The writing in your game was so bad it made me want to change careers'.

I'm going to keep this as an option on the backburner, but I still want to put in my time at mullen so I don't really see this as an immediate endeavor.