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All the stuff I love most in game storytelling is never the big-picture stuff; it's the stuff that feels like curlicues, stuff that's just there because it's a game and because you can do it.

— Tom Bissell

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and it's a brand new audience for me.

— Kevin Spacey

I think world creation and monster creation and all of that stuff is exciting as a secondary element of storytelling. When it becomes more important than storytelling, I get very nervous, and you sort of lose me a little bit.

— Charlie Hunnam

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.

— Ann Beattie

I love storytelling.

— Brie Larson

The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.

— Jim Lee

Bigger stories are made out of longer acquaintance with fact and character, but I also love the tiny stories in which almost everything has to be inferred and imagined.

— Lauren Groff

The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences.

— Chris Avellone

When I play games, I'll make up little stories for just anything. It's almost the game of making up background stories for people you see on the street. You know what I mean? I wasn't exactly the popular kid in school growing up, so I found myself really observing people, and watching how they interact, and how they react to things.

— Kim Swift

The kinds of games I'm most interested in are narrative games.

— Tom Bissell

✗Opposing Perspectives

The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.

— Bruce Feirstein