UK Sci Fi Author Reveals EA Connection

Acclaimed British science fiction author Richard K Morgan has revealed he has been working with EA for the past year.

Writing on his blog, Morgan disclosed that he is working as a consultant on three separate EA titles – all of which are science fiction based - and expressed his enthusiasm to be working in the games industry.

“Gaming turns out not only to be exactly as fascinating a medium as you'd expect, it's also a very young industry and its norms have yet to be fully formed,” wrote Morgan (spotted by Kotaku).

“So while it shares some characteristics with the movie world, gaming has yet to produce its version of Story guru Robert McKee or the cut-and-dried writing formula requirements that have strangled so much creativity in places like Hollywood.

“One producer I'm working with at the moment likens what we're doing to working in Hollywood circa 1920, when everyone was still working out what you could do with this wild, new medium called film,” he said, adding “the only difference is that the rate of evolution in technique for video games is running at about a dozen times the speed it ever did for film. The field is open, the potential huge and, in story terms, only just beginning to be properly tapped.

“For a writer, that's a pretty close definition of paradise.”

Morgan is not the only sci-fi writer to feature in a gaming story today; Cyberpunk icon Douglas Rushkoff has penned a graphic novel to tie in with Smoking Gun’s new IP.