Episode 192: Hella Good Dialogue

Waypoint Radio

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🗓️ 5 October 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Spoiler Warning for Life is Strange Season One.

It is not easy to write good, believable teen characters in any work of fiction, and that certainly goes for games. On Waypoint Radio 192, Danielle, Natalie, and Patrick talk about games that do teen writing and teen characters well—inspired by this week’s release of Life is Strange 2 (episode 1), and the series that each of us has an affinity for. We talk about LIS and its approach to dialogue, teen media that works, the shows and books we loved as real actual teens, and the dearth of AAA games that attempt realistic teen dialogue (with one notable exception!). Then we take to the question bucket and imagine immersive sims based on our lives, and Patrick gets an excellent dad corner moment.

Discussed: Life is Strange 2, Life is Strange, Gone Home, Night in the Woods, the X-Files, Daria, Twilight, Harry Potter, Gossip Girl, The Hunger Games, Donut County, The Last of Us: Left Behind

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0:00.0	Hey folks and welcome to Waypoint Radio Episode 192.
0:03.9	I wanted to add a spoiler warning up top here for the original Life is Strange.
0:08.9	We spoil the whole game.
0:10.6	So in case you don't want to be spoiled on that, make sure to give that one a skip.
0:14.8	Okay, thanks and here's the episode.
0:30.0	If you are writing contemporary fiction, please, for the love of good dialogue, go talk
0:52.8	to some real teens.
0:54.8	You will soon discover that you do not say things like, oh, M.G.
0:58.0	That was like, toads, cray cray.
1:00.8	They just don't.
1:02.2	If you want your characters to talk like teenagers, then let them talk like teenagers.
1:06.8	Not like some crackpot 80 year old alien who has come to earth and is attempting to masquerade
1:11.1	as a teen.
1:12.4	Unless you actually are writing a book about crackpot 80 year old aliens who have come to earth
1:17.2	and are attempting to masquerade as teens, in which case that sounds amazing and I applaud
1:20.8	your genius.
1:21.8	That was from Hannah Heath and a piece called Writing Teenage Characters What You're Doing
1:28.7	Wrong.
1:29.7	And this is, of course, Waypoint Radio Episode 192.
1:33.7	I'm Danielle Riendo.
1:35.2	And joining me today are Natalie Watson.
1:37.5	Hi, hi.
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