BioWare Hiring Writers by Contest

AsiNisiMasa writes "GamaSutra reports: BioWare Announces Writing Contest For Industry Jobs. For all of you with some modding experience with the hopes of breaking into the gaming industry, here is your chance. For you less confident modders, there is still hope. From BioWare's official contest page: 'When hiring writers, BioWare looks only at your writing; not the areas, not the special scripting, and not the combat. We evaluate only the characters, the dialogue, the plot, the non-linear structure, and the flow and pace of the story.'"

Comments

Re:Game Promotion?

[demachina]

Why hire writers when you can get them to work for free under the guise of a contest :)

Geek version of "The Apprentice"...

[Chaffar]

This is truly an amazing thing Bioware is doing here. Disregarding the obvious promotional benefits they get by doing something like this, this lets people with nothing more than a fertile imagination break through and potentially land a job in the industry of their dreams.

I am a huge fan of Bioware and their games, the BG, NN, and NWN series are all breathtaking; It's things like this that remind me why I have so much respect them. Bioware have always sold games with virtually no eye-candy, just perfectly narrated stories with near-infinite replay value. It's really cool of them to turn to their fans for inspiration.

On a less optimistic note, I just hope they aren't doing this because they are running out of ideas and their company is sinking...