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Compared to normal writing of fiction, how does writing for a developing game change how you go about making your fiction?asked by Steve-2001

TL;DRWriting for a game in development gives freedom to inspire designers and artists, but the writers stay cautious about specific details until design is firm, so they keep things broad and focus on character emotion.

So the development process, kind of in some regards gives us freedom because we get to help develop along with the game, as we come up with cool things, it inspires the designers and the artists to create those cool things in game and vice versa. But it also means that sometimes were a little more cautious about putting really specifics details into stuff and I know we often get questions about you know how big is this thing or you know how does this work, and until design gets firmed up it kind of behooves us to leave it a little more broad to really focus in on the emotions of characters less than the more technical aspects or the more design aspects of the game.

Yeah it's definitely a challenge but it's something that's fun to tackle every single day and to figure out we can kind of express our vision for what we want to bring you guys without necessarily exactly stepping on the toes of the art team, the design team and everyone like that. Yeah like will said on the emotion and we figuring out the stories we can tell in the certain contexts is challenging but also very cool to do.

10 for the Writers›Episode 05·
Published on this date.5 Oct 2015