Backstory (was RE: [MUD-Dev] New poll)

[Zak Jarvis]

> From: Raph Koster [rkoster at austin.rr.com]
> Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 12:18 PM

> > From: Zak Jarvis [zak at voidmonster.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 1:32 PM
> >
> > Agreed, as Lee Sheldon has complained, most of the stories in games are
> > conceived by coders, [snip] On the other hand there *are* notable
> > counter examples. Personally, I found the storytelling used in
> > Half Life to be quite effective and fun.
>
> Half-Life's story was written by Marc Laidlaw, an experienced SF
> writer. If you check in the locker at the beginning of the game,
> you'll find some of his books amongst your character's personal
belongings.

Yeah!  And... So. They totally subverted him and turned him into a level
designer so he could quit his day job as a legal secretary, so my point
is -- like -- totally valid. :P

(I'm batting a thousand here today, I'll backpedal some more so I appear to
have a semblance of knowing what the hell I'm talking about.)

I meant it was an example of backstory that doesn't suck not of coders
doing decent backstory. :) For coders doing a good story... Uhm, the
closest really is Rob Swigart with Portal, but that's a funky example and I
don't get the impression most people are even remotely familiar with it.

-Zak Jarvis (blah blah blah, excuse. Blah, blah blah blah Ginger...)
 http://www.voidmonster.com





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