{"id":844,"date":"2010-12-03T12:31:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T12:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2010-12-03T12:31:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T12:31:26","slug":"spare-parts-writing-for-simon-pegg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/12\/03\/spare-parts-writing-for-simon-pegg\/","title":{"rendered":"Spare Parts &#8211; writing for Simon Pegg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year I was invited to the EA offices in Guildford to discuss the possibility of working on a game called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ea.com\/uk\/game\/spare-parts\">Spare Parts<\/a>, being created under their Bright Light division.\u00a0 It was such a pleasure to get the job and write the dialogue for such a fun game, but what I didn&#8217;t realise at the time was that the game would be voiced by the brilliant Simon Pegg, who can be seen talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/videos\/simon-pegg-recruited-for-spare-parts?size=hd\">it in this video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always exciting and slightly tense working with a new client, but when I learned that he&#8217;d been signed up to do the voice this stepped up to a whole new level.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been a fan of Simon&#8217;s since\u00a0I first saw Spaced and thoroughly loved his take on Scotty in the last Star Trek film.\u00a0 I never got the opportunity to meet him, which would have been great, but I hope that I managed to write the lines to do his talent the justice it deserves.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that you&#8217;ll all buy and enjoy the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year I was invited to the EA offices in Guildford to discuss the possibility of working on a game called Spare Parts, being created under their Bright Light division.\u00a0 It was such a pleasure to get the job and write the dialogue for such a fun game, but what I didn&#8217;t realise at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/12\/03\/spare-parts-writing-for-simon-pegg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spare Parts &#8211; writing for Simon Pegg&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,40,50,3],"tags":[78,7,266,79,256,9],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-game-writing","category-games","category-writing","tag-dialogue","tag-game-development","tag-games","tag-simon-pegg","tag-writing","tag-writing-for-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}