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Write Your Way into Animation and Games
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Write Your Way into Animation and Games

by Christy Marx
November 2012
Beginner content levelBeginner
418 pages
12h 28m
English
Routledge
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CHAPTER 13 Interactive Media and the Writer

 

Timothy Garrand

CHAPTER OVERVIEW

This chapter defines important terms and explains the key concepts relating to interactivity, including:

  • Interactivity vs. control
  • Thinking interactively
  • Linking
  • High-level design
  • Interactive devices

WRITE IT ALL!

Writing for multimedia and the Web may be the most challenging work you will ever do.

  • Writing great prose text is not enough!
  • Creating engaging video scripts is not enough!Writing audio like a radio pro is not enough!
  • Making characters come alive with snappy dialogue is not enough!

As a writer for interactive media, you have to do all these things and more.

To be truly effective in this field, you will have to do more than write great text. The most exciting ...

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ISBN: 9780240813431