Belinda M. Van Sickle
aka:
Belinda Van Sickle,
Belinda Vansickle
Moby ID: 30142
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Belinda Van Sickle is President/CEO of GameDocs, a game industry service provider specializing in distribution, consulting, packaging, localizations, web promotion and B-to-B documents. She started her video game career in 1996 at Activision, working as a writer, copyeditor, designer and layout artist in charge of all game manual copy.
In 1999, she was one of the founding members of Ignited Minds, an ad agency that specialized in game packaging. At ATVI and IM, Belinda worked on manuals for all of Activision's releases from 1997 through 2005. She left IM in 2005 to start her own company. GameDocs has since worked on packaging and promo materials for Blizzard, Vivendi, Disney Interactive Studios, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Konami, Midway and many other triple A and independent publishers.
Belinda started volunteering for Women in Games International in 2006 by spearheading the WIGI Linkedin group and the Community Mixer series. Since then, she has become CEO of the organization, leading WIGI's efforts to promote and encourage women's achievement in video games. Belinda has an undergraduate degree in Feminist Studies and Psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Master's in English with a focus in Creative Writing from Sonoma State University.
She has spoken at industry conferences such as GDC, Casual Connect, NAB and others. Belinda has been interviewed for several articles on the game industry for publications like Wired, GameSpot, GameCareerGuide, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and the Into Tomorrow podcast. She has lectured or taught at the University of Southern California, California State University-Fullerton, the Art Institute of California-Los Angeles and Westwood College.
She's been a hardcore casual gamer for more than 15 years and loves hidden object games on the Macintosh. http://www.gamedocs.com/blog/wordpress/?cat=3
Credited on 64 games
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Battlezone: Combat Commander (2018, Windows) | Documentation Writer/Layout |
Battlezone 98 Redux (2016, Windows) | Writer/Layout |
Remington: Great American Bird Hunt (2010, Wii) | Manual Text Editing |
Shimano Xtreme Fishing (2009, Wii) | Special Thanks |
DreamWorks Shark Tale (2004, PlayStation 2) | "Raise the Reef" Performed by |
Pitfall: The Lost Expedition (2004, GameCube) | Ignited Minds, LLC |
Cabela's Dangerous Hunts (2003, Xbox) | Special Thanks |
Cabela's Deer Hunt: 2004 Season (2003, PlayStation 2) | Special Thanks |
Minority Report: Everybody Runs (2002, Game Boy Advance) | Special Thanks |
The Invincible Iron Man (2002, Game Boy Advance) | Special Thanks |
Activision Anthology (2002, PlayStation 2) | Activision Special Thanks |
Cabela's Big Game Hunter (2002, PlayStation 2) | Additional Thanks |
Doom II (2002, Game Boy Advance) | Packaging by Ignited Minds, LLC |
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Game of the Year (2002, Windows) | Writer |
Spider-Man (2002, GameCube) | Packaging |
Star Trek: Bridge Commander (2002, Windows) | Special Thanks |
La Pucelle: Tactics (2002, PlayStation 2) | Special Thanks |
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001, Windows) | Writer |
Star Trek: Armada II (2001, Windows) | Special Thanks |
Soldier of Fortune: Gold Edition (2001, PlayStation 2) | Manual |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 44 games with Jim Summers
- 36 games with Michael Rivera
- 36 games with George Rose
- 36 games with Jason Wong
- 32 games with Tim Vanlaw
- 27 games with Mitch Lasky
- 26 games with Sylvia Orzel
- 26 games with Todd Komesu
- 26 games with Lawrence Goldberg
- 25 games with Joseph Favazza
Companies
- 57 games with Activision Publishing, Inc.
- 26 games with Activision Blizzard UK Ltd.
- 22 games with Activision Deutschland GmbH
- 20 games with NBG EDV Handels- und Verlags GmbH
- 18 games with Effective Media GmbH
- 12 games with id Software, Inc.
- 11 games with Ignited
- 9 games with Leader S.p.a.
- 8 games with GOG Poland Sp. z o.o.
- 7 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
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