Overview

Evan lives in San Francisco and writes stories for video games. He has worked on some big ones like: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Battlefront, Cuphead, and TellTale's the Walking Dead.

He has written and edited comics and also teaches game writing at the University of Silicon Valley. We delve into the differences in story between books, movies, comics, and video games. Evan clarifies the different jobs in game writing and how they work together.

If you've been interested in how to create stories that work in video games, this is the episode.

Book

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385345828/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385345828&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=8334dc0782f770723515d28c325441d0

Article

Here is an article that Evan wrote on his blog about getting into the game writing business.

https://www.evanskolnick.com/single-post/2019/08/28/How-does-one-become-a-game-writer

Website

https://www.evanskolnick.com/

https://usv.edu/

Favorites

https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/62276/spider-man_unlimited_1993_12

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0762G6R32/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0762G6R32&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=8e9ebe940fbecfe6067f543ac77de927

YouTube

https://youtu.be/_9J2UcuBJWE

Transcript

All right. Evan Lewis officially greet you a welcome to the podcast. Discovered wordsmith. Really great to talk to you, how you doing today besides

[00:05:28] Evan: doing fine.

[00:05:29] Evan: Thanks. Thank you very much for having me on.

[00:05:31] Stephen: Yeah. Great. Okay. So you're a different person to chat with. Usually I talk to new authors who have a Bookout. We are talking for something completely different. So I'm really excited because it is different direction. It's something that a lot of my author friends don't know much about.

[00:05:47] Stephen: So before we get into that, tell everybody a little bit about yourself outside of work life. Some of the things you'd like to do where you live that definitely.

[00:05:55] Evan: I live in the San Francisco bay area with my lovely wife and two sons who are away at [00:06:00] college. So we're just going to taste it being empty-nesters.

[00:06:02] Evan: Now, this is interesting, but I love spending time with my family. I'm a big baseball fan, especially red Sox, van Gogh, red Sox. I'm from the Northeast. Watching the playoffs now with bated breath and I like playing video games that you would expect. And also board, especially with my old high school buddies were spread across the country now, but we play online just about every week to stay in touch and have fun together.

[00:06:21] Evan: And I play drums, not well at all, but I do it for fun. And it's one of the things that I do that I have no intention of getting any good at. And that's not the point. So