Runemaster and MadKeithV,
I know what you mean, but don''t get stuck in terminology, OK? The game is just like a book and you need good writing skills in everything, NPC''s and dialogues and descriptions and story. If you want to call him game designer, that doesn''t make him a non-writter.
And if you want the PC to decide all these, you still need a writter to write the punchlines and to design the NPC sterotypes
(if I understamnd your point correctly).
(To avoid misunderstandings, I include my definition of a writter:
Writter: Everybody who can master the language in order to build creative and fascinating concepts)
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Do we need writers? (branching of Landfish posting)
Runemaster and MadKeithV,
I know what you mean, but don''t get stuck in terminology, OK? The game is just like a book and you need good writing skills in everything, NPC''s and dialogues and descriptions and story. If you want to call him game designer, that doesn''t make him a non-writer.
And if you want the PC to decide all these, you still need a writer to write the punchlines and to design the NPC sterotypes
(if I understamnd your point correctly).
(To avoid misunderstandings, I include my definition of a writer:
Writer: Everybody who can master the language in order to build creative and fascinating concepts)
We Shall Overcome!
I know what you mean, but don''t get stuck in terminology, OK? The game is just like a book and you need good writing skills in everything, NPC''s and dialogues and descriptions and story. If you want to call him game designer, that doesn''t make him a non-writer.
And if you want the PC to decide all these, you still need a writer to write the punchlines and to design the NPC sterotypes
(if I understamnd your point correctly).
(To avoid misunderstandings, I include my definition of a writer:
Writer: Everybody who can master the language in order to build creative and fascinating concepts)
We Shall Overcome!
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This actually quite amusing,
gamedev.net has aforum for designers and now one for writers, but everybody seems to have different definitions of these concepts. :-)
Jacob Marner
gamedev.net has aforum for designers and now one for writers, but everybody seems to have different definitions of these concepts. :-)
Jacob Marner
quote: Original post by BigBrother
(To avoid misunderstandings, I include my definition of a writer:
Writer: Everybody who can master the language in order to build creative and fascinating concepts)
Well then you say writers and programmers/software designers are in fact the same thing. Just change the language from "English" to "C++".
That''s why I disagree with your definition, I think a writer is someone who can use natural language to build a coherent, single work of creative writing towards a defined purpose.
With random generation, you could call the person that does the building blocks a "writer" but those will be very small pieces. The total of the game won''t be "written", any more than it it "designed". Kindof like emergent behaviour..
[ and PS. felonius, that''s why I didn''t really want a Game Writing forum to appear.... ]
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