Recent content by coot

I soured on the superhero stuff long ago (like, the seventies :), even though I was tempted back by the Dark Knight series and other modern reinterpretations. Still, there's only so much romantic angst and tortured impotence that I can deal with without experiencing extreme medical reactions...

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Speaking as a writer and game writer the comments are spot on. When you sit down to write a story, it could be anything -- historical fiction, fantasy, space opera, romance, hard-boiled detective fiction, etc. Even if the genre is fixed, a game engine can still do pretty much anything. The...

Ummm... Something should be mentioned here. That thing is named Marc Laidlaw, an award-winning spec fic writer. Check out http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Marc_Laidlaw (he's also in wikipedia). Marc has been writing and publishing successful fiction since the 80's; he has also been...

The "Emotioneering" slant of the article is interesting but let's remember a key fact: The book was first published in 2003, and FF VII came out in 1997. The Final Fantasy team did not use "Emotioneering techniques" per se, they just designed a great game. I point this out to emphasize that...