Gameplaywright = Today

For the last two months or so, Will Hindmarch and I have been working to create a website for our writing about games and stories, and especially the area where they overlap.

Gameplaywright goes live today.

I'm all kinds of excited about doing this. One of the biggest reasons, and non-obvious, is that it will give me an opportunity to get better as a game designer and writing by forcing me to write critically about games and stories on a schedule.

There's this truism about the best way to learn things that I've heard comes from the Army. To learn something solid, you should "watch one, do one, teach one." That is, you should watch someone else do the thing you're trying to learn, then try it yourself, and then teach someone else to do it. Gameplaywright is Will and I shooting for the third. God knows we've both watched, played, and designed plenty of games. But there's an expertise you can only gain by trying to explain the process to others. And that's the main point of launching Gameplaywright, as far as I'm concerned.

So drop by! (That URL, again? Thanks for asking! It's gameplaywright.net!) Don't be shy about blogging it, e-mailing the URL to your colleagues and gamer buddies, and hassling your relatives to visit when you see them over the holidays. That's what Will and I will be doing!

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Comments

Congrats on the launch, Jeff! Here's hoping you do manage to convince more game companies that story does matter. Love that logo, too.

I posted a link at work where I'm sure there are some interested people. It actually turns out that one of them is another of the contributors to Hobby Games: The 100 Best. Small world. :)

Great site, so THIS is what you've been up to... among other things.

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