Blog - Celtx/Writer's SIG Partnership = Game Writing Tools!
Thursday, August 21, 2008Nice!
The IGDA Writer's SIG now has a partnership with Celtx, maker of software for all kinds of writing projects.
That means a game writing tool is in the works, ladies and gentlemen!
I'm taking a look at Celtx's software so far, and I am impressed. Their program already has templates for writing in nearly every other medium you could imagine. It will be great to see game writing take its place next to them. I've already well learned the power of having good tools in development, so I'm glad to see tools being specifically created for game writing. Of course, it will also be quite handy having a universal writing tool for anything I'd want to write.
I see this especially beneficial for students like myself. Writing for games is a bit scary at first because generally when you're a student you don't get to see the kind of docs you need to write as samples. It's a bit intimidating to be asked to write something you've never actually seen before. So having a tool that not only provides samples (one of the Writer's SIG's other current operations is collecting a database of game writing samples for students, which would work well in collaboration with this collaboration with Celtx) but also helps guide the development of such docs.
I'm terribly excited by this, if you couldn't tell.
It's like two geeky loves of mine coming together at last: game writing and game tools. posted by Brian Shurtleff @ 4:26 AM 0 Comments Links to this post
