Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.

You don't get 'The Unfinished Swan' or 'Shadow of the Colossus' or even Telltale's 'Walking Dead' until you've sat through the long, linear infodumps of something like 'Metal Gear Solid'.

When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.'

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

Back in the early 1970s, what got me and another 400,000 kids out of bed without needing to be called twice was the latest issue of The Amazing Spider-Man.

When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for lessons we should be learning.