Joe Velikovsky is a Consultant, as well as Producer, Designer and Screenwriter in the fields of New/Digital Media, Game Design, TV and Film. As his CV shows, he has been a Professional Writer, Game Designer and Producer for over a decade. The game, film and TV genres he has worked in include drama, sci-fi, horror, and comedy. His most recent credits include Jumper: Griffin's Story on XBox360 and Looney Tunes: ACME ARSENAL on PS2, Wii and XBox360.

GAME-RELATED SERVICES:

* FILM-TO-GAME CONSULTING - for a fee, I can read your feature film script - and deliver a 1-page report on whether it would translate well to a game, or other interactive media (eg such as Alternate Reality Games).

* GAME CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT - For a further fee, I can write a 10-page Game Concept Document which you can use as part of a `pitch package', when you present your film project/screenplay to studios/investors. I provide the text, you provide the images.

* TV-TO-GAME CONSULTING - as above, but for TV projects. Alternate Reality Games also work well for TV.

For more information, including fees, email me direct.

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BACKSTORY

Joe undertook a Game Design course while studying film and tv screenwriting at the AFTRS (Australian Film, TV and Radio School) and immediately found work as a game designer & writer on a game called Riddle of the Dinosaurs for Firmware Design.

He has since worked as a Game Writer and/or Designer and/or Consultant, for various companies and universities, including Ratbag Games, Redtribe, R3 Interactive and many others. He was also Creative Director and Lead Game Designer at A-Rage Pty Ltd, an award-winning Augmented Reality game development company.

He believes that Game Development is both fun and challenging, and shouldn't result in thumb-callouses from button-mashing. - But often does. Such is the gaming life.

At the risk of soundy geeky - he's been into computers since before he was a teenager. Some of his favourite games have included the Grand Theft Auto series, Metal Gear Solid, Smuggler's Run, Halo, Virtua Fighter 3 and Age of Empires: Age of Kings.

Velikovsky was also the National Games Market Analyst for Australia in 1999-2000, while working at Inform, the official Australian firm who do the `Top-20 Games' lists in all the videogames trade papers. His clients included Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sega, and all the major Australian game publishers and distributors. His knowledge of the games market is therefore extensive.

He also speaks at various conferences about Writing and Designing Games including the National Screenwriter's Conference, and the Australian Game Developers Conference.

He also lectures at various universities (UniSA, Charles Sturt University and Flinders University, RMIT), on Games History, Writing and Design.

He has been quoted in the Financial Review regarding games, and has appeared in various videogames-related magazines, newspapers and on radio (Radio National, JJJ etc).

- If you require a Game Design Consultant, Game Writer or Game Script Editor - he's more than Game!