austin grossman
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These Games Made You: Classics That Inspired A New Video Game Novel
1Like many of us, Austin Grossman has lived with video games his whole life. But, like a lot fewer of us, he went on make them, working as a writer and a designer on beloved titles like Deus Ex and Dishonored. Yesterday, his literary love letter to the medium — a novel called You —…
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In Dishonored, Sometimes The Story Is What You Don’t See
Pro tip for anyone wanting to write a video game: “If it’s longer than a tweet, a character should probably not be saying it in the play of a game.” For those with dreams of seeding video games with their scintillating prose, Austin Grossman’s observation may be a bit deflating. But the writer/designer who helped…