This former Edmonton reporter is using his news background to make video games
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Video game developer Ben Gelinas' game "Times and Galaxy" puts players in the shoe-analogues of a robo-intern for "the solar system’s most trusted holopaper."
Journalism isn’t the most glamorous job.
It can be thankless work and involve shoddy coffee-shop Wi-Fi, makeshift lunches low in nutritional value and long stretches of sedentariness.
Ben Gelinas is hoping his video game about journalism is both interesting and fun.
“Times and Galaxy,” set for release June 21 on consoles and PC, puts players in the shoe-analogues of a robo-intern for the eponymous publication, “the solar system’s most trusted holopaper.”
Gelinas left high school wanting to be journalist and studied at the University of Regina, with his first job interning for the Edmonton Journal.
After stints with two newspapers in southern Ontario, he got a call from a Journal editor asking if he wanted to return to Alberta.
The job, unfortunately for him, was for a crime reporter.
“I hated crime reporting so much,” Gelinas says in a recent interview. “I’m shy at the best of times. As a journalist, I put on my hat … but writing about crime was just the hardest thing.
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