Scriptwriting for videogames

Videogames industry website Gamasutra are running an interview with Susan O'Connor, a scriptwriter for titles such as Star Wars Galaxies, Dungeon Siege II, Act of War, and Gears of War. In this article she discusses the construction of narratives, which are clearly at least part of what defines videogames.

She also has some (tentative) things to say about being a woman in a male-normative sector,

I want to be careful what I say here, but men and women are probably, in some ways, wired a little bit differently.

Shocking!

Huizinga article at Game Studies

I've added a couple of links to the right hand sidebar, at the bottom. One of these is to my favourite scholarly computer games site, Game Studies, and I just noticed that they have an article about Huizinga up there. I haven't read it yet but it strikes me as something we could discuss, particularly in light of our recent reading.

Tetris documentary

To get the ball rolling I offer this tale of two cultures, a BBC documentary about the commercial development of Tetris,