You've Played The Game; Ready For The Book?
from the novelizing-games dept
I've known some writers who ended up taking jobs writing the "novelization" of movies. It certainly helped pay the bills, but they weren't really thrilled about the work. Now, the newest trend is for established science fiction writers to write novels based on video games. They insist it's different from novelizing a movie, since those already have the story specifically laid out. For the game novels, the writers just play the game for a while, and then read the "story bible" the developers used in making the game to help create the story for the novel.
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