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Table of Contents:

• Pt. I. Games writing in context. A brief history of game stories
• pt. II. What do game writers do? and how do they do it? Decoding and devising the brief
• NDAs & contracts
• Collaboration : team us
• Narrative design
• Outlines & treatments
• Character documents
• Environmental storytelling
• Writing scripts
• Editing
• Consultancy
• Adaptations : turning other things into games
• Other roles of the games writer
• pt. III. Beyond the basics. Why have stories at all?
• What is plot and how does it work?
• Other resources for writers : more than movies
• Marrying design and story : Driver 76 case study
• Storyloading
• Shifting agency
• Time gates and act stimulants

• Aristotle, games writing, and games
• Choice or enlightenment?
• The future of games writing
• pt. IV. What's it like being a games writer? What's it like being a games writer?
• Appendix A: Rating systems
• Appendix B: Sample non-disclosure agreement
• Appendix C: Sample writing services contract
• Appendix D: Selected exercise solutions (Chapters 9 and 10).

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Author/Creator:

Suckling, Maurice

Contributors:

Walton, Marek

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Video game writing: from macro to micro [by Suckling, M.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Video game writing [by Suckling, M.] (Dulles, Va. : Mercury Learning and Information, c2012 — ISBN 9781936420155; LCCN 2011931638; OCLC Number 719430677)

Subjects:

Video games — Authorship

Video games — Authorship — Vocational guidance

Video games

Vocational guidance

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 388 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GV1469.34.A97 S84 2012eb

ISBNs:

9781937585778 (electronic bk.)
1937585778 (electronic bk.)
9781936420155 [Invalid]
1936420155 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

849936887