Can't wait to try the guy's playthrough for P3P. I'm sure it'll be a pretty different experience, heh.

Don't ask me why, but the more I play P3P, the more I feel like this type of storytelling is the kind of job I should aim to get into.

That is, writing for games.

I love it, the whole idea of being able to tell a story through the player's character, whom the player controls & grows. Somehow it excites me even more than writing novels or scripts for TV.

Being able to tug at the player's heartstrings through the turn of events (speaking of that, I was not expecting that to happen in P3P. Screw it! He didn't have to die! *cries*); being able to keep them hooked to know what happens next even if the gameplay isn't exactly groundbreaking, which was what happened to me for DA & Oblivion.

'sides, half my ideas seem more suited for games, imo. I thought up of a certain concept some time ago, and I'd wanted to write into a novel. But as I worked on it I realized that it would work better as a game. It really would.

The same goes for a number of my ideas. Not that I can't turn them into novels; DA has its prequels and Oblivion apparently has a few novels, too - but the entire plot just feels like it's for a game. Meh.

Problem here is, I guess the gaming industry isn't so easy to break into if you're aiming to write stories for games (and not the programming). Not to mention SG literally has no gaming scene at all. Not that I know of. No groundbreaking RPGs here; people, c'mon! Haha.

But hey, what's impossible with man is possible with God! Right! From now on, my goal is to enter the gaming industry as a writer and write stories through games! :D

Eh, for now, anyway. I've still got 2 and a half years to decide which area of writing I should branch into... (:

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