Alumni Interview with Game Designer Corey Waite Arnold
Corey Waite Arnold MA '14 Alumni Interview by Deidra Cali MA '23 1. You currently work in writing video games and even have your own games online! How did you get into this after you graduated with your English MA? It wasn't something I planned. After getting my MA I started teaching composition and critical reading courses as an adjunct at Community College of Philadelphia and Eastern University. But I was also making games as a hobby, mostly with a local dev community called Philly Game Mechanics (PGM) . This is something I've always done, make and play games, usually dumb board games and stuff with my brothers. But with PGM I started collaborating with local video game makers, mostly as a writer. Eventually someone in the Game Design and Production department at Drexel needed someone to write grants for their lab. They were looking for someone who knew a lot about games but also had research and writing skills. The indie dev community in Philly is small, so
