Conundrum7g said...
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hey James! Its just good to HAVE ya!
To me, I'm curious HOW you go about writing a story for a video game.
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Do you actually play any games? Or do you just prefer to write them?
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Happy to be here, Conundrum!
You're right when you say games are getting more like movies - the script for the BG game was about the length of one for a feature film!
Writing a game is a lot different from TV, film or radio - game scripts are more fragmented and there isn't a set format. Many scenes are replayed in multiple ways depending on different endings or conditions (I wrote Adama's death scene four or five times!), even in a linear game like BG. It's a very difficult discipline that I'm still trying to master - but as games get more advanced, I'm hoping that game scripts and stories will improve to match the quality of the gameplay and graphics...
As for playing games, I love to! I have a PC, X-Box and PS2 and I play loads of games on all of them... Right now I'm playing GTA: Vice City, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge and Vietcong...
