My Top Articles on Games and Games Development
An Index of My Writing on Games, Narrative, and Development
Hi! I’m Andrea Blythe, an author, poet, and game writer. Although I have loved video games since I was a child, it never occurred to me that I could actually write for games and help shape interactive narratives until a few years ago. Now, I have successfully completed two solo games projects and am working as a freelancer for indie games studios.
As I continue to delve deeper into the world of games development, I find there is so much to learn—both from the games I love (and don’t love) playing and from the process of making games themselves. This page provides a list of all the article on games and games development I have written on this site thus far.
Games Writing and Development
- Exploring the Potential of Poetry in Games
- On Making Two Games at Once and Other Creativities
- Don Quixote and Modular Storytelling: On the art of blending gameplay with interactive narratives
- The Illusion of Choice: Lessons from the Writing Excuses intensive course on writing for games
Games News, Reviews, and Critique
- Exploring the Dark Recesses of the Teenage Experience in Silent Hill: The Short Message
- Ten Games I Loved Playing in 2023
- Games I Loved Playing in 2022
- Games I Loved Playing in 2021
- Lost in the Sea of Solitude: Facing the monsters inside ourselves
- 10 Video Games to Baby Step Your Way into Horror: From Interactive Tales to Puzzle Platformers to Survival Horror
- A Few Things I Loved About Resident Evil: Village
- New ‘Somerville’ Trailer Reveals A Family Struggling to Survive an Alien Apocalypse
- Running Through a Monster Infested Landscape with ‘Stela’
- The Emotionally Charged Experience of ‘What Remains of Edith Finch’
- ‘Outlanders’ Is a Charming Community Building Game, Laced with Desperate Survival
Is there a topic that you’d like to see me touch on? Let me know in the comments.
My games writing portfolio site had a collection of all the games I’ve worked on (at least the ones I can talk about), some of which you can play for free.
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