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Writing video games is a massive undertaking. It requires the same planning and creativity as other media, but with the added challenge of allowing for player choice and branching dialogue trees.

Bethesda's Todd Howard says that the team tries to mitigate mod incompatibility issues by letting script extender developers try out new game builds.

Yorkshire starting zone. 26th level human. Glasses give a +4 sight bonus once equipped. “I get asked all the time, usually from students, ‘What does a video game script look like?' [They say] ‘I want ...

Writers in games need to be collaborative and can't think the script has all the answers; it doesn't in film or theatre either, but what it does offer is a place where new ideas can be experimented ...

Morgan Pinder is a writer at GameRant and a graduate researcher at Deakin University in Australia. Their research interests are in video games, environmentalism and gothic media. Morgan’s most recent ...