This was the questioned raised at the debate we organised with Creative Partnership and Channel 4. The debate started by asking Do games tell a story? and by way of some lively debate and contributions we got to Would Shakespeare be writing games? The conclusion drawn by many contributors was that the many levels and layers of games means that they offer the richest creative opportunities for writers. Do you agree?
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Quite possibly - it's fun to speculate. Would Mozart play the electric guitar? But the more pressing question for me is can we in libraries, encourage children and young people to read books by working collabaratively with games/games writers? The film of the book is a different experience - who would want to live without having seen David Lean's interpretations of Dickens - but equally who would want to live without the experience of those novels? I think there is some evidence that films can bring people to read the books - how about games??
Good question - I think that it will encourage children to read a book if it is provided along with a game, however I feel that the game will have to be original - not a poor copy of another game. My daughter was given such a game for Christmas, and even though she loved the book, she found the game extremely repetative, and didn't enhance the enjoyment of the book at all.