Writers Wanted for Super Nintendo Book

[Aussie2B]

I wonder how many of the critics are against unpaid internships as well since that would be considered "getting rich off slave labor"

Generally, I am. They can be worthwhile in certain fields, but when it comes to entertainment industries, they're almost entirely predatory. Anything to do with video games, animation, comics, etc. is rife with taking advantage of young eager kids with offers of "exposure" and "experience" that basically equal companies getting free labor or vastly undervaluing those they do pay a pittance. On top of that, consumers suffer too with media that is not at the professional level it should be at, because the companies don't want to pay real professionals real money.

[jb143]

Yeah, I've heard a lot of stories of interns basically being taken advantage of while not really getting any real experience or even a foot-in-the-door out of it. In engineering however, at least when I was in school around 2003 it was the key to landing a job. Everyone I knew who had an internship got a job right away. Everyone who didn't, had a really hard time finding anything. For the people I knew, it seemed more like classwork than work work. They had to write up papers on whatever project they were working on etc.. Pretty much like it was any engineering lab assignment...only it was for some company. Certainly not getting coffee and donuts.

This is probably more along the lines of graphic designers who complain about all the "design our band poster/album cover" contests or whatever. The designers see it as the bands minimizing their work and effort and basically expecting them to work for free. I can defiantly see where they're coming from, but I also know of up and coming artists who got great exposure through such contests.

In this case however, it's collecting stories that otherwise might not have ever been told from people who felt telling their story was reward enough...I suppose.

[YoshiM]

Sounds kind of like the "Lore" sections of the old Digital Press guides.

[eskobar]

Sounds kind of like the "Lore" sections of the old Digital Press guides.

I didn't venture in the LORE section until your message ... GREAT SECTION, I read a few threads and I am sure that will visit this section quite often

[jb143]

I didn't venture in the LORE section until your message ... GREAT SECTION, I read a few threads and I am sure that will visit this section quite often

On the forum? You might want to do it before it merges into classic gaming.
https://forum.digitpress.com/forum/s...Classic-Gaming