| The Challenges Faced by Game Writers |
 The Challenges Faced by Game Writers Mon, 24 July 2006 Writers spill the beans at Comic-Con 2006  Challenging
"I went to a Game Developers Conference, and while I was there, I learned that while everyone wanted writers in games, nobody wanted to pay for them."
- Anne Toole
"You have to start divorcing your ego. I went off to college and I was studying proper story structure and all this good stuff, and where a lot of this broke down for me was when it was like, 'Hey, that's a wonderful dramatic scene, but you're tying a rope around the player's neck and dragging them through cutscenes.' And that's not what they're playing for."
- Neal Hallford The full write-up from the "Writing for the Computer Gaming Industry" panel at Comic-Con can be found on the Gamasutra website. |
