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Striking Writers May Work on Games

Posted by Zonk on from the fewer-hackneyed-cliches-sounds-like-a-good-thing dept.

The ongoing Writer's Guild strike may soon impact even the games industry. While most of the copy writers working on games are not a part of the guild, via Eurogamer comes a Variety article about a possible Hollywood writer's migration to other media. "While the WGA has made no secret that it would like to eventually cover vidgame writing, it hasn't pushed the issue yet and is allowing members to work on games during the strike. 'It has been an interesting shift," says one tenpercenter who focuses on vidgames. "The literary agents are now saying, 'Why don't we get our clients over there during the strike?' even though in the past they thought the money wasn't good enough or the work is too demanding.'"

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  1. Is this good or bad? by 644bd346996 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm not sure whether I should rejoice that more games will be getting competent writers, or weep that gaming is going to be degraded to sitcom quality.

    1. Re:Is this good or bad? by everphilski · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's what she said.

    2. Re:Is this good or bad? by hudsonhawk · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Soap opera writers have been breaking away from the union and crossing the picket line.

      The union's fight is not their fight - soap operas don't sell DVD's or get watched online.

  2. At least they won't work on The Sims The Movie by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am not making this up, there really seems to a The Sims movie in the works... If hollywood can screw up game movies with single paragraph plots, what the hell will they do with a game that HAS NO PLOT?

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  3. Screenwriters vs. Authors by JBMcB · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd rather have authors write the storylines to video games. Screenwriters specialize in storylines that are constrained by time, authors specialize in storylines that are, well, good.

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  4. [generic response] by nuzak · · Score: 5, Funny



    <elitist crap>

    <broad general dismissal>

    Sorry, my own writers are on strike, but I see everyone else is busy mad-libbing their own attitudes toward their hate of all things sitcoms and reality tv as if that's all there ever was out there. You think you're gaining some kind of "cred" with your oh-so-jaded attitudes?

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