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Starting my GDC week off with a bang! I have just been notified that my contract at Rookery Interactive will not be renewed in 2 weeks, so I am suddenly #OpenToWork! Please keep me in mind for any writing or consulting roles. If you're at GDC & would like to meet, lmk!

🌎 I’m open to remote roles, or positions in Bangkok!

⭐ I've worked on a ton of games, comics and books, and am available for writing, consulting & editing outside of games.
#gamedev #comics #books #gdc

Jay, a smiling dark skinned Black person with curly black hair, wearing a white blazer that nearly glows with how white it is, sitting in her home office with a bouquet of flowers on her desk behind her
#books #gamedev #comics #opentowork #gdc

At Game Developers Conference #GDC in March, I gave a retrospective talk about making my first game, Karateka.

You can watch it for free at youtube.com/watch?v=mHc2iCfDor…

As so often, I found many illustrations for my slides on @internetarchive (Examples below). It's a free online library, currently being sued by publishers who dislike its existence. To learn more, or to support their mission: blog.archive.org. In a world with fewer archivists and librarians, more slides will be text-only.

Screenshot and box of Choplifter, Softalk magazine, and a typewriter, circa 1982. Archived by MobyGames and Internet Archive, found by me and downloaded for free, included in my GDC talk and posted here with no one's permission. Hope no one complains.
Article about Broderbund in Softalk magazine, 1981. Archived by Internet Archive, found by me and downloaded for free, included in my GDC talk and posted here with no one's permission. Hope no one complains. The excerpt from my journal is the only thing on this page I actually have rights to use.
My high school AV club yearbook photo, and a TRS-80 and Commodore PET computer from that year, 1978. Archived by Internet Archive, found by me and downloaded for free, included in my GDC talk and posted here with no one's permission. The REPLAY comics panel is the only thing on this page I actually have rights to use.
Photos of four Broderbund executives as they looked when I met them in summer 1984, from a company brochure. Archived by Internet Archive, found by me and downloaded for free, included in my GDC talk and posted here with no one's permission. Hope no one complains.

Classic Game Postmortem: 'Karateka'

Before Prince of Persia, there was Karateka. Released in 1984, the directorial debut of game creator Jordan Mechner was a worldwide hit, full of groundbreaki...
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