Next Gen Game Writing

Came across this article at the Hollywood Reporter that has a focus on writing within video games. The real cool part is it includes two of our writers at BioWare, Mac Walters and Mike Laidlaw (who will be on my panel at the Austin Game Conference which I leave for in about 45 minutes) as they mention the involvement of the Cinematic Designer at a few places.

"If you write a line that's a little too chatty, you need to be aware that you're forcing the cinematic designers to go back and re-do the animations after they'd just finished getting all the facial expressions exactly right."

Its a good read.