A couple of days ago I read a short review of my book in Edge magazine and I must admit that I was a little miffed that they’d missed the whole point behind the book.<\/p>\n
There’s an element to the writing in Edge at times which conveys a kind of “we know all this stuff so everyone else should” and this was very blatant in the review. Yes, there are chapters in the book that cover a lot of ground that gamers and developers may know already, but judging by the feedback I’ve received, there are a lot of readers who are grateful for the approach I’ve taken.<\/p>\n
The biggest slant of the book was that it was written for writers who want to know about writing for games and I put that writing into the context of development.<\/p>\n
There was, however, one bit of the review that got me thinking a great deal, for which I’m thankful. The review said that the best parts of the book was when I concentrated on the process itself – the dialogue chapter and the appendices are examples of this.<\/p>\n
With that in mind I thought that if I could create a book in which I took the reader through my own creative process of writing and designing games and creating a game design as part of that process, perhaps that would be much more valuable for those within the industry. In a way it would be like my Developing Thoughts pieces, but with much more meat upon the bones.<\/p>\n
This would be a project that could take a long time to do, (and I may release it a chapter at a time) but hopefully I can make it something that would give some insight to those interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A couple of days ago I read a short review of my book in Edge magazine and I must admit that I was a little miffed that they’d missed the whole point behind the book. There’s an element to the writing in Edge at times which conveys a kind of “we know all this stuff … <\/p>\n