Game of Thrones creator George RR Martin leans into gaming after partnering with From Software for Elden Ring.
George RR Martin, the pen behind Game of Thrones, broke a spear in favor of video games, explaining how they are “bigger” than “these days” movies. Martin has just closed his collaboration with From Software, a Japanese developer, for the realization of Elden Ring. The writer contributed to the writing of the mythology that supports the first open world of Hidetaka Miyazaki, father of the vein as well as classics such as Dark Souls and Bloodborne.
George RR Martin and the work on Elden Ring –
George RR Martin retraced some of the steps that led to the collaboration, in many ways unexpected, with From Software. A partnership with which he discovered that, although video games “aren’t really” his cup of tea, the medium is already bigger than the cinema. “Miyazaki and his From Software team they were doing a very innovative thing with a wonderful art industry, and what they wanted from me was for me to do some world building: a deep, dark, resonant world that would serve as a foundation for the game they had planned to create “, has explained Writer.
“Video games bigger than movies” –
“As all this happened, I loved creating worlds and writing an imaginary story,” added Martin, speaking of the ‘past’ he had to put pen to paper in the project. “So I did my part and passed it on to my new friends in Japan, and they went from there. And years have passed. Video games are as big as movies these days (bigger, actually) … and it takes the same time to create them ”. Elden Ring, the fruit of the (first?) Collaboration between the Japanese developer and Martin, is out in February 2022 after a long disappearance and a brief postponement announced in October. It was awarded two years in a row at The Game Awards as the most anticipated video game of the next season and this is certainly a sign of how successful it is likely to have next year.
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