Instead of shooting aliens, Gelinas says he’s inviting players to interview them and explore their worlds. “Comedy doesn’t work in a vacuum, but space is a vacuum.” “It’s a comedy game,” boasts Gelinas, who is working on the game alongside other writers, including Edmonton’s Paul Blinov, a member of Rapid Fire Theatre and former arts editor of the now-shuttered Vue Weekly. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The project mashes together his passions - journalism and video games - to create a unique, story-driven title in which players control a robot reporter navigating an internship at the Times & Galaxy, the “ Dorp system’s favourite regional holopaper.” The game is widely imaginative, rife with humour and obsessive attention to detail: all facets of Gelinas’ personality. Now a video game developer, Gelinas is using his experiences as a journalist to help form Times & Galaxy.Ĭopychaser Games’ Times & Galaxy has players taking on the job of a robot intern at a holopaper who covers stories in alien worlds, such as robot fighting. He pursued journalism as a career, finding fulfillment in helping others tell their stories, eventually becoming the Edmonton Journal’s crime reporter. “ I like to joke that the console wars of the early ’90s played out in my family because my parents got divorced in the early ’90s and my mom bought me a Super Nintendo and my dad bought me a Sega Genesis, one at one house and one at the other,” says Gelinas. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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