deanb Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 As a side note for that I need to read more books. I'm studying literature for christ's sake, and I spend half my time playing games instead of reading Ulyses, or Dickens, or Woolf or something. Jeez. I love reading too- games are just so much easier and more accessible. In many cases more fun, too. I've written several essays on books I haven't actually read. It's pretty disgraceful. This. I'm supposed to be trying to be a writer, but I spend most of my time playing video games or frittering it away on the internet. Must... better... self... Well it's research isn't it. Into how not to write. In fact you could play a game, then write a better story line for it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForgetfulBrain Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 (edited) I suppose! That used to be my dream. Write video games. Doubt that will ever happen as a career for me - you need mad programming skills or something in addition. Edited December 31, 2010 by TheForgetfulBrain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 I doubt you require the other skills of gaming making to write for them. Amy Hennig doesn't strike me as the programming/modelling type. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForgetfulBrain Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 I doubt you require the other skills of gaming making to write for them. Amy Hennig doesn't strike me as the programming/modelling type. Well, that or a super raging writing portfolio. Someday, perhaps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slithy toves Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 In fact you could play a game, then write a better story line for it. i used to do that all the time when i was younger. it was fun. i think i'm going to start doing that again, you have a good point. it's good practice. we have a lot of writers on this forum, which i guess isn't that strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffany Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 I've gotten people IRL saying totes. My friend and I have been saying "totes" for years. Ever since we used to make fun of the show Clueless (which we loved). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slithy toves Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 SHOW clueless? did you ever see the movie it was based off of? am i really that fucking old???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicMagicPony Posted January 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 there was a show? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slithy toves Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 unfortunately yes. i never watched it but my mother did. along with party of 5, melrose place and other shows i would rather not ever remembs..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffany Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 there was a show? It came out about a year or so after the movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battra92 Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 unfortunately yes. i never watched it but my mother did. along with party of 5, melrose place and other shows i would rather not ever remembs..... But she was literally the Polaroid of Perfection!! ... OKay so I thought the blond girl was hot when I was a teenager. So sue me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staySICK Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 there was a show? only thing I remember about it is that Turk (Scrubs) was in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 As a side note for that I need to read more books. I'm studying literature for christ's sake, and I spend half my time playing games instead of reading Ulyses, or Dickens, or Woolf or something. Jeez. I love reading too- games are just so much easier and more accessible. In many cases more fun, too. I've written several essays on books I haven't actually read. It's pretty disgraceful. This. I'm supposed to be trying to be a writer, but I spend most of my time playing video games or frittering it away on the internet. Must... better... self... That's not all bad, really...as long as you're playing games with good plots and storyline. I mean, if you think about it, it's almost like reading a more interactive version of a book. XD I might as well bring this up too: Visual Novels. (NOT just the hentai ones, you perverts!) Nice one, Brain, I'm in exactly the same boat. I need to write more also, but I think I'll get everything else sorted before I resolve to get significant writing done! Yeah Zenia, I'm frequently inspired by games for cinematic quality and adding tension. By Visual Novels do you mean... Graphic Novels? I've written a few stories in that format already, it's good stuff. By written I mean I have the plots down, but I haven't actually written anything script-wise. Typical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battra92 Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 How about a Resolution on In-de-pen-den-see! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f74hv69aSw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenia-chan Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Yeah Zenia, I'm frequently inspired by games for cinematic quality and adding tension. By Visual Novels do you mean... Graphic Novels? I've written a few stories in that format already, it's good stuff. By written I mean I have the plots down, but I haven't actually written anything script-wise. Typical. By Visual Novels, I was referring to a Japanese-style game that's highly story-driven, usually with few, if any "action" scenes at all. More often than not, the only direct control you would have would be to scroll through the dialog between characters, or to the next scene, next chapter, etc. Usually the characters are drawn in anime style and may express different emotions, but usually (throughout dialogue scenes especially) the characters aren't fully animated. In many VNs, there are story "branches" where you might be presented with a choice. Certain options could change the flow of the story and ultimately yield different endings. This is a highly common element in the RPG gaming genre as well. Of course, because of the visual and interactive possibilities with a game structure like this, many hentai game developers use a Visual Novel structure for their games. The action going on typically isn't too overwhelming to the player (with the possible exception of "virgin eyes", but if you watch stuff like this, I'll bet your eyes are used to it by now) and the story flow is much more easily controlled in this type of game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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