Time now to pursue the second most pressing mystery in video gaming. (The first, of course, being: “Why does my PC keep freezing just as I finally start getting somewhere in this $#@! game?”)
by Leigh Alexander
People often say they are enthusiastic about games because “they can tell stories”, or because they enable narrative moments not possible in other media. But although there are numerous flashes of brilliance in games, this potential often feels like something they circle, but never attain.
That’s because the act of writing for games and the skillset required is vastly different from what you’d think or expect, and even people who do it professionally, toiling quietly behind the scenes, often seem frustrated at how poorly-understood the work is.