Writer's Guild Nominates Game Writing

Ars Technica's Opposable Thumbs blog notes that the Writer's Guild of America stepped back from the picket line long enough to nominate a few 2007 games for great writing. Unfortunately, their nominees suck. The list of nominees consists of: "Crash of the Titans, Written by Christopher Mitchell, Sierra Entertainment. Dead Head Fred, Written by Dave Ellis and Adam Cogan, D3 Publisher. The Simpsons Game, Lead Writer Matt Selman, Written by Tim Long and Matt Warburton, Dialogue by Jeff Poliquin, Electronic Arts. The Witcher, Lead Story Designer Artur Ganszyniec, Dialogue Sebastian Stepien, Additional Dialogue Marcin Blacha, Writers Sande Chen and Anne Toole, Atari. World in Conflict, Story Design Christofer Emgard, Story Consultant Larry Bond, Script Consultant Ed Zuckerman, Sierra Entertainment." No Mass Effect? Nothing at all from the Orange Box? No BioShock? For shame, WGA.

Comments

Less than impressed.

[Aladrin]

I just looked through the list, and those games don't strike me as having good writing at all. The Simpsons might be the only exception, and it was based on the movie... wasn't it? Not a real big challenge.

And I looked at animation and simpsons gets -most- of the nominations there, too... Where is South Park? I'm assuming they aren't union because Season 11 is definitely my favorite season. (Season 8 is second favorite.)

Personally, if this is the kind of quality the WGA can offer, I'd rather they stay on strike and give real writers a chance.