JAY TURNER – WRITING VIDEO GAMES IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS (MF GALAXY 031)
VG writer for Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Army of Two, Sonic: Chronicle on VG vs TV writing, VG actors, and racist VGs vs queer-friendly VGs Jay Turner began as a game journalist and for the last ten years has been a professional video game writer. His first gig was working as an editor on BioWare’s Dragon Age: Origins . Then he levelled up and got to write for it, and then for first three Mass Effect installments, as well as for Sonic: Chronicles . For Visceral , he wrote Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel , and now he works at the N-Space studio in Orlando, Florida. In today’s episode, Jay Turner discusses: Misconceptions about, and the pros and cons of working in the games industry What video game writers actually do Why a game company inserted two famous hip hop artists into a game that was nearly finished production How game writing and TV writing are the same, and how they’re different Why some game writers are resistant to what playwrights call “workshopping” W...