Posts Tagged ‘scriptwriting’

I’m lucky enough to have carved out a good name in the games industry in a short amount of time. The first game I worked on was Little Big Planet and it sort of escalated from there…

 

If you’ve ever played a videogame that you really enjoyed, you’ve probably spent a lot of time enthusing over the graphics, the soundtrack, the playability and the boss monsters.

The chances are, you haven’t noticed the characters or any speech in the game – or if you have, you probably won’t have considered that they’ve been created, fleshed out and given dialogue by a videogame scriptwriter.

One such writer whose stock is pretty high right now is Dean Wilkinson, responsible for the wonderful instructional dialogue spoken by Stephen Fry in LittleBigPlanet and more recently the pen behind the words of Matt Berry’s Don Keystone in the forthcoming Worms: Revolution.

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