{"id":2,"date":"2009-05-17T07:40:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T11:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2018-03-31T14:11:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T14:11:55","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img style=\"width: 150px; float: left; margin-right: 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/markgreen.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Hello! My name&#8217;s Mark Green and at various points so far I\u2019ve been European Editorial Coordinator at <b>Nintendo<\/b>, an online content writer for <b>Disney<\/b>, Editor of <b>NGamer Magazine<\/b>, Online Editor for <b>BT Vision<\/b>, and lots more.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p><img class=\" aligncenter\" style=\"display: block; clear: left; width: 800px;\" src=\"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/logos5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I mainly blog about games. I also occasionally dredge up some of my earlier writing for magazines and websites.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/category\/writing\">Writing<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; plus some highlights and lowlights below<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/talks\">Talks<\/a>\u00a0about game development and the web<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/coding\">Coding<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ve loved programming since my parents got me a 48K ZX Spectrum for my seventh Christmas.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.linkedin.com\/in\/markgreen1\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Email me at <a href=\"mailto:contactpixelatron@gmail.com\">contactpixelatron@gmail.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 150%; text-align: center;\">Some writing<\/h2>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1f-7PanWgbnfSl48JBJGAOyuV60QqcmTfzxsQoGWLIm8\/edit\">huge book review feature<\/a> I wrote for <strong>Edge<\/strong> in 2005.\u00a0I&#8217;ve since written a follow-up for their January 2015 issue.<\/p>\n<p>2015\u00a0<strong>Official Xbox Magazine\u00a0<\/strong>articles about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/retrospective-ssx-tricky\/\">SSX Tricky<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/i-can-make-you-like-perfect-dark-zero\/\">Perfect Dark Zero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From 1999, an extract from a <a href=\"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/driver1.jpg\" rel=\"image_group\">feature on the original Driver (jpg)<\/a>, in which I quizzed pretty much every single person on the development team. Questions like &#8220;How do you make crates fall over?&#8221; were asked and answered. I was young.<\/p>\n<p>A huge <a href=\"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/timeline2.jpg\" rel=\"image_group\">timeline of videogame history (jpg)<\/a> from Future&#8217;s shortlived Arcade magazine. Don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;s not your eyes \u2013 the text really is that small. Squint hard and see if you can spot the two deliberate mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>A report on the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/14951zfPDqztGSW5Q3Lg8duDS8uuSw2HpJloWyXtW5Bc\/edit\">2004 Leipzig Games Convention<\/a> for <strong>MCV<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Mario Wiki has the complete collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariowiki.com\/Talk:Wario%27s_Warehouse\">Wario&#8217;s Warehouse<\/a> articles that Richard Moulton and I co-wrote at Nintendo. Several of our silly throwaway ideas are apparently now Nintendo canon. That&#8217;s awkward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! My name&#8217;s Mark Green and at various points so far I\u2019ve been European Editorial Coordinator at Nintendo, an online content writer for Disney, Editor of NGamer Magazine, Online Editor for BT Vision, and lots more. I mainly blog about games. I also occasionally dredge up some of my earlier writing for magazines and websites. Writing\u00a0&#8211; plus some highlights and lowlights below Talks\u00a0about game development and the web Coding &#8211; I&#8217;ve loved programming since my &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":84,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}