I started writing poetry and stories when I was a teen and my dad would tell me to send them out, try to sell them. My father is a writer, too, so I always felt like it was a job possibility.
I started keeping a journal when I was 10, so I grew up feeling comfortable writing. What led you on the path to writing? Was writing full-time something you wanted to do, or did you stumble upon it by accident? Perry (do not call her Stephani!) accepted my request to answer some of my questions about her Resident Evil books, her writing career, and the trials and tribulations of adapting interactive screens to static pages of text. Perry wrote seven novels in total-five that covered in-game stories such as Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil – Code: Veronica, and two that came straight from the author’s imagination.Īs a huge fan of the novels, I was honored when S. D.” Perry proved herself as an author capable of determining what elements of Capcom’s survival-horror series worked on the page, what needed to go, and what needed a makeover. To fans of Resident Evil, Stephani Danelle “S. Some things work better in one medium than another. Jane Jensen’s novelization of the first Gabriel Knight game, penned by the game designer herself, was almost a one-to-one recreation of the game, resulting in puzzles and sequences that felt bogged down. Yet there’s a balancing act of which many readers are not aware. Just like bookworms who squirm and sizzle when TV and movie adaptations of their favorite yarns dare to stray from the book, gamers want to see their favorite scenes and characters play out on the page exactly as they did on their consoles and PCs. Game-to-book adaptations are a different beast. Perry hanging out in an airport terminal.
Directors rarely treat source material with the reverence it deserves, resulting in movies so bad even diehard fans of the games that influenced them refuse to acknowledge the silver-screen adaptations.
Most gamers loathe game-to-movie adaptations, and for good reason.
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