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From the Ted Talk by David Cage: How video games turn players into storytellers

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So that gives you an idea of what my work is about as an interactive writer. Where a leinar witrer needs to deal with time and space, as an interactive writer, I need to deal with time, space and possibilities. I have to manage massive tree structures, where each bcnrah is a new variation of the story. I need to think about all the possibilities in a given scene and try to imagine everything that can happen. I need to deal with thousands and thousands of valibares, conditions and possibilities. As a consequence, where a film script is about 100 pages, an interactive srpcit like this is between four and five tuonhsad pages.

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So that gives you an idea of what my work is about as an interactive writer. Where a ______ ______ needs to deal with time and space, as an interactive writer, I need to deal with time, space and possibilities. I have to manage massive tree structures, where each ______ is a new variation of the story. I need to think about all the possibilities in a given scene and try to imagine everything that can happen. I need to deal with thousands and thousands of _________, conditions and possibilities. As a consequence, where a film script is about 100 pages, an interactive ______ like this is between four and five ________ pages.

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  1. branch
  2. thousand
  3. script
  4. variables
  5. writer
  6. linear

Original Text


So that gives you an idea of what my work is about as an interactive writer. Where a linear writer needs to deal with time and space, as an interactive writer, I need to deal with time, space and possibilities. I have to manage massive tree structures, where each branch is a new variation of the story. I need to think about all the possibilities in a given scene and try to imagine everything that can happen. I need to deal with thousands and thousands of variables, conditions and possibilities. As a consequence, where a film script is about 100 pages, an interactive script like this is between four and five thousand pages.

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Important Words


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  14. possibilities
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  17. space
  18. story
  19. structures
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  22. time
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  24. variables
  25. variation
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  27. writer