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What’s on your bookshelf?: Divinity: Original Sin 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Saltsea Chronicles’ Charlene Putneyread-only
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Booked For The Weekis our weekly chat with industry folk about the books they love, have loved, and are hoping to love in the future.
Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! Everyone knows about ‘hardback’ and ‘softback’ books, but have you heard of the quickly discontinued ‘rice puddingback’? While hiring so many rice grain artists to transpose the blurbs in beautiful calligraphy made for an impressive spectacle, they were eventually banned after several fatal train slippage and/or smellage incidents. Ah well! This week, it’s Charlene Putney, who’s been writing for games for over ten years, including bits forDivinity: Original Sin 2,Baldur’s Gate 3,NUTS, andSaltsea Chronicles! Cheers Charlene! Mind if we have a nose at your bookshelf?
I love all of Olga Tocarczuk’s books (especially The Books of Jacob), so when I found out that her new one The Empusium has the tagline “a health resort horror story” I knew it was going to be one for me! I have it sitting on my nightstand waiting, and will likely get to crack the cover this evening.
What book do you find yourself bothering friends to read?
There are so many interesting ancient tales from mythology that would make great games in my opinion: from biblical stories to Irish folk tales. But the idea that’s prime in my mind at the moment is that qntm’s There Is No Anti-Memetics Division would make an excellent game! I would love to design the narrative backend for all of the memory loss and loops in there.
