You played Goat Simulator . You can’t wait for Rock Simulator . Now we have the next big Simulator sensation coming soon, Game Journalism Simulator .
Yes, you too can experience what it’s like to be a Game Journalist. Play newly released games without any time to eat or sleep. Beat them within a few hours in order to meet ridiculous deadlines. File expense reports with your superiors who keep trying to nickel and dime you out of more money. Tweet your colleagues hoping they will do the same to increase your hits. Watch the biggest interview of your life get almost no traffic, while a short 100 word news piece about resolutiongate gets all the traffic in the world. Go to E3 on your own dime. Struggle to find a rating between what your editor thinks is right, what the game developer thinks is right, and what fans think is right as you make your reviews. Work full time but get treated like a freelance contractor. Realize that you have absolutely no upward mobility in an industry that basically makes all of its money off of rewording press releases and bowing at the feet of video game publishers. Get fired for no reason! Doubt every life decision you have ever made! Hate yourself!
… woah… what just happened? I blacked out for a second there.
The project is being made by game journalist Jason Evangelho. He was inspired by games like Goat Simulator and wondered if his own job could make a compelling simulator game. He said he was inspired by “Critical Path: How to Review Video Games for a Living” by Dan Amrich, which suggests that all game reviewers should dabble in game development. “So I rounded up a few other journos including Daniel Tack of Game Informer, ” Evangelho said, “registered the trademark for Game Journalism Simulator, and we’re neck deep in our design document, plotting the course forward! It’s a serious project for us, and we want it to be a genuinely fun game which both empowers players and makes them laugh their asses off.”
Source: Siliconera