{"id":343,"date":"2009-11-25T08:53:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T14:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:23:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T04:23:23","slug":"writing-for-video-game-genres-from-fps-to-rpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2009\/11\/writing-for-video-game-genres-from-fps-to-rpg\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing for Video Game Genres: From FPS to RPG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a recent book review at Slashdot:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/WritingForVideoGameGenres.jpg\" alt=\"Writing for Video Game Genres: From FPS to RPG\" title=\"Writing for Video Game Genres: From FPS to RPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"247\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-344\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe third book in a pseudo-trilogy, <em>Writing for Video Game Genres: From FPS to RPG<\/em>, offers advice from 21 experts in the field of video game writing, pulled from the ranks of the IGDA&#8217;s Game Writers Special Interest Group and wrangled together by editor Wendy Despain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; The book covers everything from FPS to RPG, from MMO to ARG, and the entirety of alphabet soup in-between. Each chapter covers the particular challenges of writing for one particular genre, and generally offers specific tips on how to overcome those challenges when writing for that genre.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/books.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/11\/23\/149240\/Writing-For-Video-Game-Genres\">Slashdot<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Writing-Video-Game-Genres-FPS\/dp\/1568814178\">Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a recent book review at Slashdot: The third book in a pseudo-trilogy, Writing for Video Game Genres: From FPS to RPG, offers advice from 21 experts in the field of video game writing, pulled from the ranks of the IGDA&#8217;s Game Writers Special Interest Group and wrangled together by editor Wendy Despain. &#8230; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-game-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}