The underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock's unforgettable villain.

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• Tom Bissell:

  I guess I would say that most of what I've learned about storytelling derives from novels and short

• Tom Bissell:

  All the stuff I love most in game storytelling is never the big-picture stuff; it's the stuff that

• Tom Bissell:

  I'd been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The cit

• Tom Bissell:

  Anyone who's taken a lot of creative-writing classes, or taught creative writing, has learned to dr

• Tom Bissell:

  Every book in the 'Dreams' cycle dramatizes a particular epoch in the ongoing cultural collision be

• Tom Bissell:

  I mostly associated video game storytelling with unforgivable clumsiness, irredeemable incompetence

• Tom Bissell:

  For film at the beginning of the 20th century, they didn't even know what editing was yet. Actors d

• Tom Bissell:

  Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchant

• Tom Bissell:

  The way games are designed is you create a story, and then you create an obstacle course inside tha

• Tom Bissell:

  Only in about 2007 or so did it become clear to me that games could stand proudly beside other stor