You don't get 'The Unfinished Swan' or 'Shadow of the Colossus' or even Telltale's 'Walking Dead' until you've sat through the long, linear infodumps of something like 'Metal Gear Solid'. Dave Morris More Quotes by Dave Morris More Quotes From Dave Morris Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase. Dave Morris staircasestorytelling It is easy to force a reader or viewer to interact. The trick is in making them want to interact, and in letting the story unfold hand-in-hand with that. Dave Morris storyforceeasywant 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. Dave Morris insidenewseealways 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.' Dave Morris willfeelsomeonegame When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work. Dave Morris youreverythingyouwork Back in the early 1970s, what got me and another 400,000 kids out of bed without needing to be called twice was the latest issue of The Amazing Spider-Man. Dave Morris amazingbackmebed When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for lessons we should be learning. Dave Morris likelooklearningenthusiasm Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones' until I saw the bookshelf sagging under the burden of those other volumes. Dave Morris gamehardlongbook Readers prefer a world they can relate to. Dave Morris readerspreferrelateworld If your agent or publisher is jumping up and down at the thought of your novel, it's because they're picturing the movie poster on the side of the bus. Dave Morris yourdownthoughtbus There is a great insatiable hunger for good stories throughout the media. Dave Morris greatgoodhungermedia Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up. Dave Morris nobodybetteryouchampion Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well. Dave Morris needmorestandingtoday My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer. Dave Morris firstmemorylibraryhome As we get older, we demand stories that go somewhere. Things must change. Dave Morris somewherethingsgochange 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narrative trajectory would come down in a blaze of fireworks. Dave Morris rightdownbadstart Have confidence in your strengths, dear writer, or give it all up now and create apps instead. Dave Morris yourcreatenowconfidence 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. Dave Morris namecompanyreasontime 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. Dave Morris hatyoudesignpeople I could put a sudoku at the end of every chapter and you'd have to solve it to progress through the story, but that doesn't address what would make people want to interact. Dave Morris endyouprogresspeople
