by Chris Billowsin Nerdism in Winnipeg0 commentstags: Book Writing, Game History, Winnipeg
In the first post, I said that I was going to write about Game Development in Winnipeg. Yet you cannot have Game Development without Nerdism (defined as the behavior and practices of Nerds). So this post will investigate the term ‘Nerd’ and its related terms such as Geek and such and explain why it is needed to for Game Development. So what is a Nerd and how is that different from Geek or other similar words? I believe that definitions are the first step to outline and guide one’s written (and coding) work. I am reusing the definitions from this comprehensive Gizmodo article. Nerd The word nerd was first used in the 1950 Dr. Seuss book If I Ran the Zoo, in which a nerd was one one of the many oddly named creatures in the titular zoo. According to Ben Zimmer of Vocabulary.com, a 1951 Newsweek article mentioned it as one of the new terms being used by teenagers. It seems unlikely for teens to have latched on to a single proper noun in a Dr. Seuss book so quickly, but there is no recorded source of the word being used previously. It’s possible that it was based on the 1940s slang […]
by Chris Billowsin Nerdism in Winnipeg0 commentstags: Book Writing, Game History, Winnipeg
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 […]
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