Yesterday, we published the first part of this two-part special on writing for games, in which five successful writers talked us through a brief history of storytelling in video games. Today, we ...
Video game writers have historically been overlooked, ignored or forgotten. But with the Writers Guild of America having created a new category, game writers might finally get their due, PAUL HYMAN ...
It’s been over five years since developer Mike Bithell launched Thomas Was Alone, which sold over a million copies and won a British Academy Games Award. In the years since, he’s started his own ...
Metro: Last Light is going to raise the bar for writing in games. VG247's Dave Cook speaks with author of the Metro games and novels Dimitry Glukhovsky about penning his dark, frequently shocking tale ...
A lot of people learn scriptwriting, try things out on Twine, or major in English in the hope to become, one day, a games writer. There is no straight path to games writing and very few courses solely ...
Warning: This feature contains a minor spoiler for The Last of Us: Left Behind. Writing can make or break a game. It takes many forms - from dialogue to in-game literature, voiceovers or even scripted ...
According to initial results from a recent pilot, digital game-based learning improved student engagement and self-efficacy in writing courses at 14 colleges and universities. According to Toolwire, ...
Do you want to write video games? Do you? Do you really? Be honest with me. I mean, I don’t want to shoot down your dream. There are lots of people who’ve done the research, who know exactly what they ...