dimanche 30 août 2015

Witcher 3 and the Challenge of Adapting Books to Games

During a Witcher 3: Wild Hunt panel at PAX, CD Projekt Red talked about the difficulties present in adapting a book series to a game.

According to senior writer Jakub Szamalek, turning books into games "is not a recipe for success." During the panel, Szamalek and CD Projekt Red translator and English writer Travis Currit pointed to many of the challenges present in adapting a book series into a video game.

"You'd be hard pressed to find book adaptations" in gaming, Szamalek said, contrasting that with the movie world, where book adaptations are commonplace and often times very successful.

One of the challenges Currit mentioned was the fact that often times, "fans are completionists." He said fans will "devour" everything to do with a franchise, making a game adaptation ripe for fan scrutiny.

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