Manually
I'm currently working on the game manual for Star Chamber. As I write this I have far too little done and a lot ahead of me. I worry if I can make the deadline which technically is tomorrow. Eek.
Until then I'm going hammer out on the small intricacies of the game, and it turns out there's a frickin shitload of em. You just never know what kind of work goes into the manuals you never read, eh?
Somewhere a technical writer is crying, knowing that his 8 hours a day of writing some boring ass "Click here to do this" will never be read.
I think I stopped reading manuals around the time I learned I needed them. Ironic, ain't it? This kind of ties in with that post about being self-taught I did a week or so ago. Weird how it comes full circle so quickly...
Don't worry, I'll have some semi-interesting diatribe for tomorrow. But for now, it's back to the grindstone for me...
Until then I'm going hammer out on the small intricacies of the game, and it turns out there's a frickin shitload of em. You just never know what kind of work goes into the manuals you never read, eh?
Somewhere a technical writer is crying, knowing that his 8 hours a day of writing some boring ass "Click here to do this" will never be read.
I think I stopped reading manuals around the time I learned I needed them. Ironic, ain't it? This kind of ties in with that post about being self-taught I did a week or so ago. Weird how it comes full circle so quickly...
Don't worry, I'll have some semi-interesting diatribe for tomorrow. But for now, it's back to the grindstone for me...
1 Comments:
Well you'll be glad to know I'm a compulsive manual reader. I read every manual for anything I get with one, from cover to cover (except the foreign language section at any rate). This includes computer games. I am forever lamenting the gradual decline in size of manuals associated with computer games, and thus the gradual decline of strategy due to the need to make a game easy to understand without having read a manual.
Ray
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