Games are not stories. Games can come chock full of story elements like plots, characters, and dialog, but they’re inherently different from stories. ...

Ages ago I started work on, not so much a game, more an “interactive storytelling experience” (here I go wanking away) called Fork, ...

What’s an anti-hero? There’s a question, and a deeper one than it first seems. All fiction (even videogames) needs conflict, and in order ...

Villains come in a wide variety of flavors, from the good guy led astray to the murderous psychopath. The more complicated the relationship ...

Gaming came to me later in life than most. My parents, believing that the Nintendo would convert my brain into rotting turkey fat, ...

Your job, he said, is to fall in love. Everything else is just detail. It wasn’t what I expected to hear. The rest ...

It’s a point that comes up often in conversations about videogame storytelling: You read a novel, you watch a film but you play ...

“Cutscenes are obsolete.” This would be my coworker Jordan Deam speaking on the ride home from a concert. When asked why, he elaborated: ...

When I was little, I had an Atari 2600 and a small stack of games. Games were as pricey then as they are ...

At the heart of The Witcher‘s design lies a rich and compelling roleplaying experience. Unfortunately, the rest of the game serves mostly to ...

One of the oldest stories known to man could have been written just yesterday, for all its relevance. It speaks of our fears ...

“Where do you get your ideas?” The question, asked by innocent bystanders, well-meaning associates and the idly curious alike, plagues and troubles writers ...