As a freelance writer I write about whatever interests me, with special attention to the subset of my interests known as "what editors want to publish."
One thing I've started writing about is video games. I'm not a "gamer" in the popular sense of the word. I don't have a console. I don't follow the latest AAA video game titles. In fact, I've never touched a modern game controller.
Yet I've been playing video games since a couple I rented from in the late 1970s hooked a Pong console to their television. I then logged hundreds, maybe thousands, of hours in coin operated video machines such as Pacman, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, and Galaga. Since then I've played a lot of online games, ranging from web-based versions of ancient board games like Go and Chess, to Facebook and Android games.
I've begun submitting articles to a somewhat soft-landing gaming website called GameSkinny. The pay is minimal (nonexistent if you don't meet a threshold of clicks on the articles) but the editors are helpful, and the editing advice I've gotten from them so far seems on-target.
So far I've had two articles published:
Has anyone developed a video game as elegant as Go?
and 10 Reasons Aspiring Game Devs and Game Journalists Should Explore the Internet Archive
Check them out, and let me know what you think.
