JD asked Mark Lawrence:

As a fan of your work, it took me by surprise when I read that you were collaborating with the narrative of a video game called "Ashen." I can't begrudge you if your involvement is under disclosure, but the fact immensely fascinated me. Are there any hurdles in making a narrative for a video game medium that you've had/expect to overcome? Have you had any previous interest in the medium, personally or professionally?

Mark Lawrence Hi JD. Video gaming has been listed on my profile here under hobbies since I joined in 2010, and I started playing them in the 70s.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

I talk about my involvement with Ashen on my blog:

https://mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/...

I didn't encounter any hurdles but I think I was several steps from the actual product, so the ideas, lore, history, characters and dialogue I came up with have probably been heavily filtered before fitting to the game, or simply used as a central reference for the large team working on it, in order to give them a unified vision to work toward.

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