Striking Writers May Work on Games

The ongoing Writer's Guild strike may soon impact even the games industry. While most of the copy writers working on games are not a part of the guild, via Eurogamer comes a Variety article about a possible Hollywood writer's migration to other media. "While the WGA has made no secret that it would like to eventually cover vidgame writing, it hasn't pushed the issue yet and is allowing members to work on games during the strike. 'It has been an interesting shift," says one tenpercenter who focuses on vidgames. "The literary agents are now saying, 'Why don't we get our clients over there during the strike?' even though in the past they thought the money wasn't good enough or the work is too demanding.'"

Re:Is this good or bad?

[everphilski]

That's what she said.

Great... just what I needed.

[RyanFenton]

Games that require laugh tracks.

Honestly though, most of my favorite works in gaming have involved professional writers really taking the time to craft a great work of fiction in a game (especially Planescape: Torment.)

Ryan Fenton

[generic response]

[nuzak]

<faux-intellectual commentary>

<elitist crap>

<broad general dismissal>

Sorry, my own writers are on strike, but I see everyone else is busy mad-libbing their own attitudes toward their hate of all things sitcoms and reality tv as if that's all there ever was out there. You think you're gaining some kind of "cred" with your oh-so-jaded attitudes?

Re:At least they won't work on The Sims The Movie

[Shinmizu]

They will spend millions to hire the big name voice actors, and then spend a few more millions to give them all lessons in Simlish.

I have a snippet of the script, if you're interested...

Angelina Jolie: Mwa hama mu mu gunya! Do do do do. Manna manna.

So touching. *weeps*

Re:Is this good or bad?

[uncledrax]

What? You don't want the "Everyone Loves Raymond" MMORPG?

What's WRONG WITH YOU!?