Save The RobotThe website of freelance writer Chris Dahlen I write scripts for videogames, including Klei's acclaimed Mark of the Ninja. I cover music, gaming, technology, and pop. Maybe you've seen me at Pitchfork, The Onion AV Club, Variety, Edge Magazine, Suicide Girls, Paste, or any number of alt-weeklies. I'm also the former editor-in-chief and co-founder of the gaming journal Kill Screen. This page lists my best stuff: reviews, interviews, features, and appearances. It doesn't change too often. To see what I'm up to right this minute, look for me on Twitter or my blog. Or e-mail me at: chris at savetherobot dot com |
Game Development
Mark of the Ninja Carmen Sandiego for Facebook (2011, Blue Fang Games and the Learning Company) Writer. I researched and wrote most of the game's 3,300 location clues. Here's a selection. Can you guess them all? To read more about the writing process, check out our interview at The Atlantic. PixelVixen707 (2008 - 2009, Smith and Tinker) Contributed to the transmedia experience for the novel Personal Effects: Dark Arts by J.C. Hutchins and Jordan Weisman, ghostwriting the pixelvixen707.com blog and a column at Suicide Girls, and designing and running the "Lost Coin-Op" ARG. Read more about the project at the Washington Post, or contact me for samples. Fiction
My L'il Zombie We Are Ted Tuscadero for President ReviewsThe Beatles: Rock Band TV on the Radio, Dear Science Subtle, exitingARM Andy Partridge, Fuzzy Warbles Box Set Patti Smith, Horses Reissue Fallout 3 Spore Fatale AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! BooksI contributed to the Onion AV Club's Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture I contributed to and deputy edited The Pitchfork 500, Fireside Press, 2008. My Week on the Avril Lavigne eTeam was reprinted in The Rock History Reader, ed. Theo Cateforis. The Chumbawamba Factor was selected as a "Notable Essay" in Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006. Radio and AppearancesI've spoken at GDC Online in Austin, PAX East, and the Future of Music Coalition Summit. In April 2011, the inimitable Michael Abbott invited me to speak at Wabash College about games and writing. Listen to me on KCRW's The Business talking about movie people who try to make games, on WNYC's Soundcheck, talking about politics and Halo 3, and on CBC's Day 6, arguing that videogames are art . I moderated a dream panel on music discovery and music recommendation for the Boston Music Hackday in October 2009. |
Features and Commentary
My Purple-haired Made-Up Best Friend and Why She Had To Die (Kill Screen)
The Great Big Puzzle Box of Sen's Fortress (Kotaku)
Love and Robots in Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera
Nobody Gets Booed Down Here
Interviews
Sir Paul McCartney
Daryl Hall
Doseone
TV on the Radio's David Sitek
Who likes Battlestar Galactica? Apparently I do. Check out my interviews with Ronald D. Moore , James Callis and a rare and fascinating conversation with Michael Hogan. (Onion AV Club)
David Byrne
David Sylvian
|