{"id":1148,"date":"2024-08-21T00:27:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T22:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuff.tamius.net\/sacred-texts\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2024-08-27T18:48:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T16:48:42","slug":"so-apparently-im-a-game-journalist-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuff.tamius.net\/sacred-texts\/2024\/08\/21\/so-apparently-im-a-game-journalist-now\/","title":{"rendered":"So apparently I’m a game journalist now \u2014 Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Press Event Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m gonna put this upfront. If you want to know my opinions on the game itself, I’ve shared my opinions about the game in my article on GameGang<\/a>. This blog post only includes things I didn’t include in the GameGang article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The year 2014 was infamously known as the year of “nepotism in game journalism bad.”1<\/a><\/sup>Though this highly depends on where and how you got introduced to it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 years later, I have established myself as one of the two semi-official photographers for club Amulet D20, taking photos of club’s major events for the last two years. This portfolio caused my day to be interrupted by a discord notification from a friend Alja (who writes for GameGang, a local game news website).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hey, can you take 3 days off work and go to Czechia to play Kingdom Come: Deliverance II with me? All inclusive. I need a video guy, and the one I usually work with isn’t available.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I am being shown a sample of what’s expected of me and I decide that despite my relative lack of video experience, I can very likely handle the requirements. Especially if I borrow my brother’s mic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I put in 3 days of PTO, hand over my personal details, and immediately run to the local government admin unit to renew my ID card because it expired two months prior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Few hours later, Discord notifications ring again. While the initial e-mail Alja received said that +1 for camera crew can be arranged, the agency that handled press event invites for former Yugoslavia said no.<\/em> However:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TBF if you’re interested, you can go instead of me, the agency doesn’t really care. I just want an article by the embargo date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also since you’re going alone, you don’t have to do the video.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Well it’s a done deal, then. Plane tickets are arranged, NDAs are signed, new ID card appears in my mailbox. Two weeks later, I find myself on a plane to Prague, off to Czech out Kingdom Come: Deliverance II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day of the Arrival<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I arrived to Prague in late afternoon. Event coordinators were waiting at the airport exit, I was escorted to a taxi, which then delivered me to the hotel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the hotel lobby, the Warhorse desk was thematically appropriate. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They handed me the keycard for my room, as well as a letter that formally invited me to a trip to Kutna Hora \u2014 or, as the Germans and the game call it: Kuttenberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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