Writing video games is a massive undertaking. It requires the same planning and creativity as other media, but with the added challenge of allowing for player choice and branching dialogue trees.

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Morgan Pinder is a writer at GameRant and a graduate researcher at Deakin University in Australia. Their research interests are in video games, environmentalism and gothic media. Morgan’s most recent ...