My name is Marcus Twitty. I am a junior at Old Dominion University studying Creative Writing, Game Design, and Public Relations. My dream career is to work in the video game industry. I know that sounds vague, but I’ve never had a career goal in mind when it comes to the video game industry. If I had to choose a career path it would have to be in the narrative portion of video game design or in the public relations department within a video game design company.
I love writing stories, telling stories, creating worlds, and presenting adventures to everyone I know. When I was a kid I loved reading stories about these distant worlds and adventures that people my age could go on and experience. And as I grew older, the first video game that I ever played involving story was Quest for Camelot. Which was a story about King Arthur and Knights of the round table. I loved that game, because the story was amazing and I felt like I was in the adventure with the characters. So, after that I wanted to be a writer and also learn how to make video games. And recently at ODU, I’ve pretty muched learned the complex process in creating a story.What I’m trying to learn now is how to change the format of a writen story into the format of an interactive story in games.
Around this same time, while I was off trying to find a land of adventures in books and video games, my real life sucked. I was a shy geeky kid, who got picked on a lot, and not that many people backing me. I was quiet, a loner, and hated being the center of attention. At the time I had no heroes, except for the ones in fantasy. It wasn’t until later that I realized that if I couldn’t find a hero, then I would be that hero that I always needed. So I learned how to talk in public, I learned how to plan and create events, I learned how to change people’s perceptions on myself, and I learned how to manipulate. Which isn’t a bad skill I’ve recently learned, if used wisely. So with those skills and doing some research, I learned that working in PR wouldn’t be a bad fit for me. What I’m trying to learn now is the ins and outs of a public relations firm.