BioWare - How Do I Become A Writer #3

So, you want to be a games writer...David Gaider offers advice on your submission in this third and final part at the BioBlog:

A few tips, then, on how to put together a writing submission:

1) You don’t need to learn how to use the Neverwinter Nights toolset or any other applicable conversation-writing system. We have hired people who worked out just fine that submitted their dialogue in MS Word, using hyperlinks on the player responses to jump to the appropriate text box. It is perfectly okay in such cases to write things like [THIS APPEARS ONLY IF THE PLAYER IS EVIL] or [THE NPC WALKS TO THE DRESSER AND OPENS IT]. We’ll be looking to see how well you’re writing and how your quest works, not how well you script (unless that’s what you’re applying for).