Wanted: More hours in the day
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Hello people and readers of Retro Remakes. As you might have noticed of late, RR is a little shy on the staffing front.
That little thing called life has its wicked way with us occasionally, and before you know it - we’re wondering when someone is going to instate 25 hour days.
We’ve got an absolutely brilliant team of chaps putting in their spare time keeping this place up and running, but due to the fact that y’know, we’re all getting on a bit these days - what with babies, and houses and kids scuttling about the place (not stolen, honest), work, wives and things like that - we could do with a bit of a hand on the news posting front so that the news gets out to our readers reasonably promptly and with a bit of verve and spark, as it truly deserves.
Right now, there’s 3 of us posting the news when we can - myself (*waves*), Caff who’s been your fine host for a number of glorious entries (king of the captions and ruler of all puns) and the ever talented Mr Codex. And I’m sure the other chaps won’t mind me saying that they do an absolutely fantastic job. RR has grown though, and the amount of newsworthy stuff that passes through our doors could do with a couple more pairs of hands on deck to get it out there.
So, I’m putting out a request for anyone who fancies posting about remakes on our hallowed pages to get in touch via the medium of our forum and let us know that you’d fancy chucking in. Obviously, there’s no money in this just the respect of your peers and the chance to be publically enthusiastic about remakes and retro style games and help other people share the love.
Before you jump in waving your hands in the air and rushing at my legs, there’s a few things I’d ask up front of you.
Please don’t put yourself forward unless you can seriously see yourself still doing this after one or two posts. We do ask that everyone plays the games wherever possible (providing there’s a game available), nicks their own screengrabs unless someone has kindly provided one for you to use etc… and this can be reasonably time consuming.
You understand that the job of the front page is primarily to report the news, a bit of wit, sparkle or sarcasm is always welcome but above everything else, it’s the job of the news posters to get the word out about the games. You will, I promise, occasionally hit upon a game or genre you don’t like and have to post about it. That’s life though, and you’ll just have to grit your teeth and get the news out there.
The two most important things though, above all else, are having enthusiasm for this and some hefty knowledge of games throughout the years, not just some vague info picked up from Wikipedia. All the guys who keep this place running around me have a great love for the subject and a scarily big vat of knowledge that can be dipped into. We don’t expect you to know everything, but a lot would be really helpful.
So aye, if you think you’d like to bring something fresh to the table of roast remakes then nip into the forum and either introduce yourself (if we don’t already know who you are) and tell us why you’d like to help out.
I guess you’ll be needing a forum topic to do this, then… righty-ho, that’s over here.
Speak your brains
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