Last Tuesday I sent off my first application for a game industry job, applying to work as a Writer at White Wolf / CCP on their new World of Darkness MMO. I love WoD and deeply respect the folks at White Wolf, so this job is ideal for me. It’s pushed out Bioware as my ‘dream job’ due to the sheer amount of creativity present at White Wolf and the location of the studio which is in Stone Mountain, Georgia. All of the benefits of the big city without having to live there! And considering I don’t even like to drive through Atlanta, I can’t imagine living there.

My application included an updated resume, a cover letter, and two writing samples: a hub design document for Lot’s Lane in Purgatorio and a script from my original concept Crescent Eternal. I will be posting both of those to the Game Writing section. I will not be  posting the cover letter because it was specifically written to White Wolf, but if anyone reading this wants help writing their own cover letter, feel free to email me and I will give you a hand.

I guess I have a slight advantage in that Monty (CEO of Rogue Dao Studios, now working as Associate Producer and soon to be Designer at Obsidian) put me in touch with WW president Mike Tinney, which is a real honor regardless of what happens. But I really am hoping they give me the chance for an interview so I can speak to them face to face.

Speaking of that, I will be making blog posts in answer to some interview questions Monty suggested for me such as: what worked and didn’t work in terms of writing and design in selected games (I’m going to allude to World of Warcraft and Mass Effect for this), the purpose of writing in a game, the most successful thing I’ve designed, the least successful, etc. If you have any interview questions I can answer, please respond to this post. For some reason responses are going through on one particular post regardless of where you actually post them, but I will be able to see them regardless.

It’s been a week since I submitted the application, and of course these things take an indeterminable amount of time, but every time the phone rings my heart jumps up into my throat.