The Corner of Story and Game

Paul Reed on Finding Character Voices

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Paul Reed joins us this week to let us peek into his mind and learn from his journey. Paul is a writer and game designer that started out as a Nintendo Game Counsellor, and has worked his way up from there. He has worked at studios like Retro Studios and Sony Online Entertainment - and today he is working at Cryptic Studios.

In this episode, we dig into, amongst other things:

  • Breaking into the video game industry, why it is so difficult, and what we could do to the education system to help,
  • The application of screenwriting skills in video game writing,
  • What he learned from creating Shadow Madness,
  • Finding the voices of the characters and letting them be heard,
  • Working on Star Trek Online and DC Universe Online,
  • Tomatoes in Hobbiton?,
  • Making a world memorable through characterization of settings, and
  • The importance of finding and telling authentic stories.


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