Warren Spector Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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Warren Spector’s Next-Gen Storytelling Part Four: Conclusions Text-only versionMagazine version

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“The stories we tell reflect and determine how we think about ourselves and one another. A new medium of expression allows us to ...

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A Critical Character Question Better virtual actors (and technology) can only make your game better. But what is “better”? Well, you could argue ...

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“A narrative may be used for telling the player what to do or as rewards for playing. Games may spawn narratives that a ...

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“The stories we tell reflect and determine how we think about ourselves and one another. A new medium of expression allows us to ...

All in the Cards

Should games be fun? This thought popped into my head the other morning as I walked my crazy dog, Maggie. I’d just spoken ...

Dungeons & Dollars

How do we break out of our best of times/worst of times situation and chart a course for the Promised Land that’s clearly ...

The Revolutionaries

This article is the third in a four part series, beginning with Gaming at the Margins. In the last installment of this series, ...

StateCraft: Update

This article is the second in a four part series, beginning with Gaming at the Margins. The Cultural Crossroad The SituationI don’t know ...

What's in a Game?

In November of 2005, I gave a talk at the Montreal International Game Summit. To say the reaction to my talk was “incendiary” ...