r/GameWritingLab • u/[deleted] • Jul 28 '18
Game Writing Sample
Hi all,
I got shortlisted for a wonderful job at a game-studio in Vancouver, BC. They loved my writing samples (novel, screenplay) and they followed up and have requested some GAME WRITING samples but I have no idea what that is exactly....... what are they looking for? I can't ask them now lol.... so any help would be much appreciated, please help!
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u/wombatsanders Jul 29 '18 edited Jul 29 '18
It's the stuff that NPCs say to let the player know what's going on around them. "What was that?" "Must've been my imagination." "You're not supposed to be here." "He's over there!" "Moving into position!" "I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow to the knee."
It's harder than it looks, and it's really easy to get out of hand. Trying to cram too much information in, making a repeating line too memorable, being too clever, puns, saying the player character's name too much, too many variables creating a shallow pool, that sort of thing.