Freelancing

[SuperZambezi]

This past E3, I was lucky enough to run into Sam Claiborn from IGN on the show floor. We exchanged contacts and we've been chatting through email ever since. I sent links to some of my guides (Paper Mario and Luigi's Mansion) and he ended up offering me a paid freelance gig for the Wikis over on IGN. Since then I've done "practice" wiki work by doing their Banjo-Kazooie Wiki and the Villagers page from their New Leaf wiki. After three months of emails, I finally got assigned to do a real wiki, this time for The Wonderful 101.

I would have said something earlier but I wanted to see if anything would come this. Thankfully, it did, and if I do things right with the W101 wiki, it'll continue. It also means that I'll be doing things outside MPL, so that definitely affects the time I spend here. Granted, I'll be spending a lot of energy on the wikis in a short period of time (typically two weeks) rather than in a long and ongoing time, so it's nothing to worry about. It also helps that we are in a news slump right now, so I'm not exactly missing anything.

I'm just really thankful that I got so lucky to get this kind of opportunity and I felt like I should let you guys know what I'm up to. Like I said, I'm currently working on the W101 wiki and you can catch my progress here:

http://www.ign.com/wikis/the-wonderful-101

 

[deadlyximpulse]

Congrats SZ on the freelancing job!

You seem to have a lot on your plate, and I hope you don't fade into the shadows on MPL.

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Wow, that's pretty amazing. Hope you do well on The Wonderful 101 Guide and please the IGN people. We appreciate of you letting us know what you have been up to.

 

[SuperZambezi]

Congrats SZ on the freelancing job!

You seem to have a lot on your plate, and I hope you don't fade into the shadows on MPL.

Thanks, and I have no plans to leave MPL or even put less time into it. The only difference is that if I get assigned a wiki, I'll be focusing less on MPL for that period of time (usually two weeks).

Wow, that's pretty amazing. Hope you do well on The Wonderful 101 Guide and please the IGN people. We appreciate of you letting us know what you have been up to.

Thanks!

 

[ttwashere]

nice! good job mike.

 

[SuperZambezi]

I finished up the W101 wiki. Now I'm just working on getting pages up for each collectible. I'm going to be doing images for the Pokemon wiki starting tomorrow.

nice! good job mike.

Thanks!

 

[cookieboy17]

That's awesome, glad you're getting such a great opportunity and hopefully it opens the door for more!

 

[ttwashere]

Whenever I get back to playing the Wonderful 101 i'll have to look up your page for some help

 

[SuperZambezi]

That's awesome, glad you're getting such a great opportunity and hopefully it opens the door for more!

I hope so too! Thanks!

Whenever I get back to playing the Wonderful 101 i'll have to look up your page for some help

Please do. People aren't commenting so I need some kind of feedback.

 

[SuperZambezi]

In case anyone is interested in seeing my work on the Pokemon Wiki. I do all the images:

http://www.ign.com/wikis/pokemon-x-y

Tomorrow I'm starting the wiki for Batman Arkham Origins Blackgate:

http://www.ign.com/wikis/batman-arkham-origins-blackgate

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Nice! And Batman? What about Wii Party U? So many games coming, it'll be harder to pull all of this off for November. But we'll manage, won't we?

 

[SuperZambezi]

Well, we're not doing guides or anything for Wii Party U, just news and articles.

 

[ttwashere]

Do you like doing guides, Mike?

 

[SuperZambezi]

Doing NES Remix now: http://www.ign.com/wikis/nes-remix

Do you like doing guides, Mike?

It can be tedious at times, but I've always enjoyed doing them. It's a good feeling when you know they are actually being used and helping someone.

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Japan saw release of that game on Thursday, December 19, 2013, by the way.

 

[ttwashere]

Doing NES Remix now: http://www.ign.com/wikis/nes-remix

how is it? I wanna play it really bad

 

[SuperZambezi]

Some of the challenges feel like tutorials, but other than that, fun game! It's nice that it forces me to play some NES games I would have never touched otherwise.

 

[ttwashere]

Some of the challenges feel like tutorials, but other than that, fun game! It's nice that it forces me to play some NES games I would have never touched otherwise.

Neat! Hope to get it very soon.

 

[SuperZambezi]

Finally finished NES Remix. Any more of that game and I would have chucked the GamePad across the room.

It's a fun game, but it can get really frustrating, really fast if you're going for Rainbow Stars.

 

[ttwashere]

Finally finished NES Remix. Any more of that game and I would have chucked the GamePad across the room.

Nice

I haven't thrown a controller in years