{"id":395,"date":"2008-09-16T20:55:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T10:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storylabs.us\/lamp\/?p=395"},"modified":"2008-09-16T20:58:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T10:58:36","slug":"podcast-joe-velikovsky-growing-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storylabs.us\/lamp\/podcast-joe-velikovsky-growing-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast – Joe Velikovsky “Growing Worlds’"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Growing Worlds” An abridged Presentation on Games Writing and Adaptation by Joe Velikovsky<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Note: the first half of the podcast contains loopback echo due to technical issues)<\/em><\/p>\n

In this abridged (20 out of 35 mins) presentation at a LAMP Insight ‘Growing Worlds<\/a> – Games Adaptation Seminar’\u00a0 Joe looks specifically at the practical side of games design and adaptations from existing IP or story ideas. He talks about console games writing, how they are developed and some of the titles he worked on including Looney Toons and Jumper.<\/p>\n

“every chapter has its own introductory and outroductory. We ended up with this entire game summary a couple of meters high and wide so that everyone could easily refer to it and know exactly which level they were making at anyone time – what was in it and what the mission objectives and stories were. We ended up with 10 walkthroughs which were about 40 pages per chapter, times 10 chapters and if you included the images there are about 70 pages, 20 cut scenes of about a page each, and this big excel spreadsheet with over 1060 rows of dialogue.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He talks about his experience across screen writing leading to writing for games and then looks closely at the target demographics and how they influence the design and what content to include alongside the style of gameplay. Joe then looks at the visual aesthetic, game play and design of Looney Toons in more detail and the structual aspects that are inextricably linked to the gameplay and narrative that permeate the story world and the amount of work that is required to create these large game play environments.<\/p>\n

JOE VELIKOVSKY – Screen and Games Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joe Velikovsky<\/a> is a Producer, Designer and Screenwriter in the fields of New\/Digital Media, Game Design, TV and Film. He has been a Professional Writer, Game Designer and Producer for over a decade. The game, film and TV genres he has worked in include drama, sci-fi, horror, and comedy. Professional experience includes:<\/p>\n