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A tongue-in-cheek article on game designers and fame.
Fame is a complicated thing. We hear all the time about how it's a mixed blessing, so terrible for the poor beleaguered celebrities, etc., etc. And yet still so many people are driven to get famous.
I've never been one of those people, so game designer was a good choice of career. (Science fiction/fantasy novelist isn't bad either.)
Full post here.
Great read. Thanks for posting, joela.
Great read. Thanks for posting, joela.Glad you enjoyed it. We should start a list of designers who are "demi-famous".
I left an anecdote there about getting improbably recognized by name for penning my first Dragon article not once but twice, and in two different decades.
Wolfgang Baur is 'demi-famous'.
Sean K Reynolds.
The Paizo folk.
Freelancers like Nic Logue, Tim Hitchcock, and Clinton Boomer are getting there too.
Actually Boomer's bordering on famous famous due to there being a multimedia stage for his inestimable and unsparing talents.
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I actually prefer the term "semi-demi-hemi-quasi-pseudo-micro-celebrity".
As I said to someone just the other day, yeah - I have over 2,500 subscribers on YouTube, which sounds pretty good.
But if I was hosting Late Night or had a show on CBS and I only pulled in 2,500 viewers? The company would very politely ask me to slit my own wrists.
I thank you for the kind words, Rone - and I, too, left a comment! Check out Monte's blog!
Gamer-fabulous. :D
Geektacular!
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I actually prefer the term "semi-demi-hemi-quasi-pseudo-micro-celebrity".
As I said to someone just the other day, yeah - I have over 2,500 subscribers on YouTube, which sounds pretty good.
But if I was hosting Late Night or had a show on CBS and I only pulled in 2,500 viewers? The company would very politely ask me to slit my own wrists.
I thank you for the kind words, Rone - and I, too, left a comment! Check out Monte's blog!
Thats for now...... You will get more veiwers, I am sure. we jsut have to get Steven Colbert to mention you on his show.
CEO
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I tend to agree with Monte. But I have to say that the few occasions where somebody recognizes me are a big ego boost. :)
I remember once walking in downtown Atlanta and having somebody stop me on the street and start going gaga about the stuff that I had done. I was flustered and flattered all at the same time. But it was weird. :) I have also had people recognize me at restaurants. I even had someone shake my hand while I was waiting for a cab in Vegas once. When they actually recognize who you are just from walking down the street, it is much cooler than them recognizing you once you let them know what you have done. I even had somebody I never met come up to me at GenCon and give me this amazing gift basket of stuff that included things that only people who really knew me could know that I would like. It freaked me out so much that I cried and the guy ran off. I never got to thank him for the gifts. But it was pretty freaky to have a guy give you things that you thought were much more personally secret.
Lisa
Wow...that sure sounds freaky...and cool! :D
I actually prefer the term "semi-demi-hemi-quasi-pseudo-micro-celebrity".
As I said to someone just the other day, yeah - I have over 2,500 subscribers on YouTube, which sounds pretty good.
But if I was hosting Late Night or had a show on CBS and I only pulled in 2,500 viewers? The company would very politely ask me to slit my own wrists.
I thank you for the kind words, Rone - and I, too, left a comment! Check out Monte's blog!
You'll soon have a Mexican audience :P