I have been toying with the idea for a long while to consider writing a book and the book would be related to a history of Video Game Development in Winnipeg.
The prompt to this idea has to do with the following things: I personally know a major player in the Winnipeg Game Dev community and have seen him grow his company to become successful. It is a great rags to riches story that would be a main thread of such a book.
The other thing is my personal passion and connection to technology and video games. I grew up as Video Games took off and have always loved playing them and seeing how they have evolved. I’ve even taken the first tentative steps to creating my own game.
The third thing is that I am fascinated to recount how this all came to be in my only home town of Winnipeg. I have always believed that Winnipeg does quite well for itself despite its small size and geographic isolation. I think this is something that I’d like to tease out in a book.
Writing a book is a huge endeavor but I think that having passion for the topic will help carry me through to get this done. I do have some success competing things (here and here and here) and have decided that I will at least start doing research and raw writing for the book.
Thus I am introducing this series of blog posts to be a summary of the research I’ve come across and doing some raw writing. I’m going to name this thread by the category title Nerdism in Winnipeg. While Video Games are no longer the domain of nerds, to be a Video Game Developer is a huge act of nerdism. I have a potential book name picked out but will not use that until I get closer to writing my first draft.
So thanks for reading and I’ll update this post with a link to the next post when it is up.
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