Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Is Writing expressed in video games?


                      Writing is expressed in many different forms such as the background which includes books, magazine articles, and scholarly resources to the foreground such as movies and video games. It takes on a new form in discussion boards and email.  Writing involves telling a story to the reader in written form but is this new form used in a video game? Video games are essentially an interactive movie allowing choice. What is one major way writing is expressed in video games?

            The answer to this question is the campaign. The campaign has two major advantages for video games: it aids storytelling with visuals, and allows the author of the games script to change it for inconstancies.  Visual story telling allows the writer to see the consequence before he writes his next script for the next choice for a character. For example, I shoot at a switch to open a door which opens up with enemy AI standing in the middle of the room.  Visual story telling would allow the writer to see the effect of alterative choices on the human reaction such as: happy when you are playing the good guy and defeat the bad guy, play the bad guy and change sides, or some humor from characters like a character saying: "I meant to do that". Writing has always been important to our media and will never change.

Media will define our next generation and writing will go to the background but still be important in our lifes.

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