3-2-1 | Screenwriting Thursday: The Video Game Industries Very Dark Night

Somehow I managed to get sick again over the last week or so (vertigo is not pleasant) so this week I’m offering a little something different and share and article I most certainly did not write.

This article was promoted from one of the many industry blogs I follow as a deep dive take on where the videogame industry is right now… which in many ways is analagous to where we are in film/tv. It’s not uncommon for writers in the entertainment space to lend their skills to videogame narratives after all.

This all plugs into a larger market picture and… late stage capitalism? The notion that virtually nothing can ever experience unlimited growth without negative consequences and the hubris behind ignoring that law of nature? The correlation between cultural stagnation and a decaying society with an identity crisis? Or, in a (debatably) more positive realm, Jevon’s Paradox?

Anywho - this puppy is long, but I assure you, quite interesting:

The Video Game Industries Very Dark Night

by Georg Zoeller

Let me know what you think.

Until next week,
Kate