In this inaugural episode of the Fika Sessions, host Petter Mårtensson sits down with Anna Megill, Lead Writer at Massive Entertainment, to find out more about how writing stories and narratives for video games works.

What makes writing for games different from other forms of writing? How does a game writer work together with the other development teams? What kind of material is a writer on a video game expected to write? What tools are used and what do you need to think about if you want to apply for the job in Narrative?

Also, what does the tasty fika taste like?

Tools and links:

Twine

https://twinery.org/

Scrivener

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview

Final Draft

https://www.finaldraft.com/

Ren’Py

https://www.renpy.org/

Anna Megill on Twitter

https://twitter.com/cynixy

Lussekatter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffron_bun

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lussekatt