Mike Meginnis has written a couple of fictional videogame stories. I like them both a lot.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: p447-448It felt like the right decision at the time but you know, you wonder. What might have happened next?
That's what I started working on, even though it was unplanned. I wasn't working, at all, for a while there and I didn't know what I wanted to do, I didn't know what I wanted at all so I kept thinking about what is it that I want and kept coming back to telling stories in game form. I got to thinking all of this might be a halfway decent game if it were a game. Part spy movie, part fairy tale, part choose your own adventure. Epic branching story that doesn't stick to a single genre or one set path and turns into different stories but it's all the same story. I'm trying to play with the things you can do in a game that you can't do in a book. Trying to capture more story. A book is made of paper but a story is a tree.
You meet someone in a bar. You follow them or you don't.
You open a door. Or you don't.
Either way the point is: What happens next?
It's taking an absurd amount of notebooks full of possibilities but it's getting somewhere.
Quote[This] technique, requiring infinite patience and concentration, encourages us to [..] read Mme. Henri Bachelier's Le jardin du Centaure as though it were written by Mme. Henri Bachelier. This technique fills the calmest books with adventure.