Simonnr

I've always wanted to know why you guys decided to portray the future so differently from The Longest Journey to Dreamfall? I mean, TLJ had a pretty dark and gloomy looking future. No colors or happy people, ferry crashes and fumes everywhere. Whilst in Dreamfall everything is Beautiful, colorful and everyone seems happy. Nothing seems bad at all. It might be because of the different places of course, but I always wondered if there was something more to it than that.

Playing through The Longest Journey and Dreamfall I've always admired your writing. And it really makes me want to write something even though I've never really written anything other than school assignments. Do you think anyone can be a good writer just like that?

Also do you approach writing these games. Do you just start somewhere or do you have different points pinned down in the story and just fill in as you feel like it?

And if you pin down certain things, how do you decide on them? have you ever pinned something down and then kept writing and when you kind of catch up to it been like "Nope, that ain't gonna work."?

What's the most important thing when writing a story? Is there a difference in writing for a game compared to writing something like a book?