If you’re both a reader and a gamer, as I am, you’ve undoubtedly had the experience of finishing a novel, setting it down and thinking to yourself, “Dang. Someone should really make a video game out of that.” I think we can all agree that the following book falls under that category.
The Book:
I won’t go into too much detail here, since I reviewed this title recently on the blog. As a brief rundown, in this book we follow Karina Redfeather, an artist who has fallen for a werewolf. As the isolated town she lives in develops werewolf fever, complete with a militia force and a company selling silver protection, an old enemy of her lover’s pack arrives set on spreading his lycanthropy, along with a lot of pain and death. Things get even more complicated when a pack of werewolves so strange that the others aren’t even sure they exist shows up.
Why It Should Be A Game:
This is another of those books I see making an excellent interactive cinema experience, similar to the Jurrasic Park and Walking Dead titles released by Telltale Games. A lot of the tense moments and werewolf hunts in this book would make excellent quick-time events (assuming you enjoy those. I do if they’re well done). While this title doesn’t necessarily lend itself to an action game or a lengthy rpg style game, a point and click adventure with this story would be delightfully engaging.
The thing that would really have to sell this as a game, though, would be the visuals. Of course, most games need to have those these days, but I think it would be especially important for a story like this. The transformations, the characters’ expressions, the affect of silverizing on Karina’s house. These details would have to be nailed for this to work.
What do you think, readers? If you’ve read “Falling Silver”, am I right about this? Discuss in the comments.
