![]() ![]() But I stopped playing video games because most games are boring, partly because of the protagonist issue and partly because of the predictability of moving from level to level and facing off against bosses. I have a son who's a game designer and I'm very familiar with the medium. We have a character with this negative motivation and that character makes a lousy fictional protagonist.Ĭard: I used to. And he always has the same set of motivations, which is to kill and don't die. WN: As a storyteller, what do you think about the video game medium?Ĭard: Video games are a viable storytelling medium, but the trouble is that video games always have the same protagonist, which is the player. This is only possible because the game creators have the desire to tell a story about living, breathing people. Most of the games simply don't have the characterization to allow this to happen. ![]() We're going to have people that say, "We have this great game, let's do a novel and a movie" - and the novel will suck. ![]() WN: Do you think others will imitate this multi-entertainment model of launching a franchise?Ĭard: After we succeed fantastically with this, everyone else is going to imitate it without understanding why it works. ![]()
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