Comments on: Writing the Great American Novel Video Game

By: Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » The Cardboard Valise, by Ben Katchor

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:03:28 +0000

[...] Michael Rudin on “Writing the Next Great American Novel Video Game.” – Lee Thomas’s review of We Are the Friction, a collection of illustrators and fiction [...]

By: Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » Gatsby: The Video Game

Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » Gatsby: The Video Game — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:01:49 +0000

[...] Celeste Ng image credit: iplay.comWe’ve talked about video games and their relation to narrative before. But how about fiction as video [...]

By: John David

John David — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:35:31 +0000

Awesome well-written perspective. Rudin’s new article (http://fictionwritersreview.com/essays/the-age-of-binary-bookmaking) is equally insightful.

By: Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » The Age of Binary Bookmaking

Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » The Age of Binary Bookmaking — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:21:56 +0000

[...] in Los Angeles and is at work on short fiction, a second novel, screenplays, and essays (such as “Writing the Great American Novel Video Game,” also on Fiction Writers [...]

By: Brie B

Brie B — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:47:12 +0000

Fascinating window into the world of gaming. Very eye-opening.

By: Video games as art « Meanderings

Video games as art « Meanderings — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:54:05 +0000

[...] only a matter of time before art house video games become the norm. After all, they’re just another way of telling stories: There are protagonists and antagonists, epilogues and prologues, first-person and third-person. [...]

By: Lev R.

Lev R. — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:01:02 +0000

very well written. good work

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HTMLGIANT / New Excellent Crawl — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:08:19 +0000

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By: HTMLGIANT

HTMLGIANT — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:52:22 +0000

[...] From Michael Rudin’s “Writing the Great American Novel Video Game” at Fiction Writ… “The keyboard we writers know so intimately… lives a double life, spellbound in passionate affairs with a video game community that dotes on it as affectionately as we authors ever have. For every keystroke a writer uses to describe character or establish scene, somewhere in cyberspace a gamer uses these same keys to navigate gunships and commandeer submarines.” [...]

By: Steve L

Steve L — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:16:58 +0000

Nice work…gaming has come a long way since PacMan.