Dave Morris
Dave Morris
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People nowadays think of gamebooks as rather old hat - and, after all, it was twenty years ago. In their heyday, though, they were a phenomenon, selling upwards of a hundred thousand units per title. And it's not as old hat as you might think: the same design skills I used in those days apply equally when I'm creating modern videogames.
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Interactive storytelling emphasizes a personal connection with the characters. It is a powerful tool that can draw you so deeply into the world of a story that you lose sight of it as a story. You think you are there - at least, if it is done right.
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A new medium always has a period when it is struggling inside the confining box of an earlier medium. Creators have to unlearn what they knew before they can see the fresh, uncharted vistas stretching before them.
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To a certain extent advertisers may be more comfortable running in the swimsuit than they were before the growth of those magazines,
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When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.
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'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narrative trajectory would come down in a blaze of fireworks.
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Motion comics are just cheap animation. Very cheap animation. And I like animation almost as much as I like comics, but I'm not rushing to pay out for a cheap hybrid of the two.
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My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.
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One of the gamebook series I created, 'Fabled Lands', is also the name of my company, and the reason we named the company after it is that it was pretty revolutionary for its time.
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But we're still growing at a pace that feels comfortable to us, and maintains the core values and concepts.
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My advice after thirty years in the business is sign with an agency of reasonable size.
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My favorite saying is that the cup is just the medium for spreading Dutch Love.
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When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.'
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What we love is when we can sell people a multi-media package,