Significant Zero: Heroes, Villains, and the Fight for Art and Soul in Video Games
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (915 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501129953 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Walt Williams is originally from Louisiana and attended Baylor University in Texas on an Air Force scholarship, fully prepared to become a military chaplain. Quickly realizing the regimented, religious life was not for him, he moved to New York to pursue a writing career and took a job at 2K Games, one of the largest videogame publishers in the world
From the award-winning videogame writer behind Spec Ops: The Line comes an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how today’s blockbuster video games are made.When his satirical musings in a college newspaper got him discharged from the Air Force, it became clear to Walt Williams that his destiny in life was to be a writer—he just never thought he’d end up writing video games, let alone working on some of the most successful franchises in the industry—Bioshock, Civilization, Borderlands, and Mafia among others. Significant Zero also provides clear-eyed criticism of the industry’s addiction to violence and explains how the role of the narrative designer—the poor soul responsible for harmonizing
Significant Zero is more than a tale of Williams’ hard-won wisdom but an inspired vision of a better future for games.” (Jane McGonigal, author of New York Times bestsellers Reality is Broken and SuperBetter)"Prediction: What William Goldman's Adventures in the Screen Trade was for aspiring filmmakers, Walt Williams's Significant Zero will be for aspiring video game developers. Funny and unforgettable, Significant Zero unravels a highly secretive