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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way games are designed is you create a story, and then you create an obstacle course inside that story, and the player has to endure it to see more. So it's artificial. Game designers are so intensely worried about people getting bored that they pile on busy work for players to do.
- Enthusiastically
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only in about 2007 or so did it become clear to me that games could stand proudly beside other storytelling mediums, and that's when I became more, shall we say, evangelistic in my position. Prior to that, I don't know how enthusiastically I would have admitted that I game.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sport-based video games occupy an odd space within the sphere of modern home entertainment. Reliably enjoyed by millions, the sport-based video game stands at what sometimes feels like an oblique angle from the larger medium, and in ways that can be hard to articulate.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's what I just realized: A world in which sport at its best is not seen as some kind of art is a world that doesn't deserve any art.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's a sense of fiction in every video game. It creates a world for itself that you want to obey.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how video game narrative works.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an Old Media guy. I don't have a website; I don't Twitter. I love magazines, yet I love video games. It's a strange disconnect.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an immensely understanding partner who does something creative herself, and we both need a lot of time alone. I structure my life around getting my work done, first and foremost. Everything else is secondary. That's the only way I've been able to do it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like reading books with both hands, with my heart pumping, with blood on the page. So I'm interested in people who make stuff, and I'm interested in the lives that make the text. To read a book or watch a movie any other way, to me, personally, feels like a waste of time and misapplication of energy.
- Fiction Writer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average action game doesn't much traffic in thematic grandiosity, but the BioShock games are different.
- Ryan
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- Nov 07, 2020
The underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock's unforgettable villain.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the stuff I love most in game storytelling is never the big-picture stuff; it's the stuff that feels like curlicues, stuff that's just there because it's a game and because you can do it.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who's taken a lot of creative-writing classes, or taught creative writing, has learned to dread a certain kind of manuscript. It's long, for one thing. It has irritatingly small type; it's grammatically meticulous when it comes to everything but punctuation, for which it has developed its own system of Tolkienic elaboration.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020