Dave Morris
Dave Morris
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People nowadays think of gamebooks as rather old hat - and, after all, it was twenty years ago. In their heyday, though, they were a phenomenon, selling upwards of a hundred thousand units per title. And it's not as old hat as you might think: the same design skills I used in those days apply equally when I'm creating modern videogames.
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When I was in France, ... people selling the cheese and buying the cheese were ordinary people, not sophisticates.
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There's lots of opportunity for the swimsuit franchise to make it even bigger without making it more frequent. We call it the Super Bowl of print. People will create ads just for this issue, just like they do for super bowl ads. If you add to the frequency, won't be as special.
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What we love is when we can sell people a multi-media package,
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I could put a sudoku at the end of every chapter and you'd have to solve it to progress through the story, but that doesn't address what would make people want to interact.
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That's something I ain't going to forget. I've seen dead people before. The parents didn't bother me. But the kid bothered me.
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I was a nervous wreck until she said it was the real thing,
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It is easy to force a reader or viewer to interact. The trick is in making them want to interact, and in letting the story unfold hand-in-hand with that.
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Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.
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Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.
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Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.
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When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.
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When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for lessons we should be learning.
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We want to keep going. I lived in New York City for awhile, and my idea is to surround New York City and spread some Dutch Love around there.