Media
Publications, narrative talks and interviews
Gameplay PODCAST 2021
Brooke and Josh chat about the process of making The Gardens Between with James from the Gameplay podcast.
ORIGIN STORY PODCAST 2021
Brooke chats to the hosts of the Origin Story podcast about her career in games and being a narrative designer.
LUDONARRACON 2021
Fireside chat with Brooke Maggs and Greg Kasavin.
On everything narrative and games!
Digital Dragons 2020
Kraków, Poland
Professional Talk: Weirder than Usual: Narrative Designing the Motel Sequences in Control
Control| E3 Interview
Interview with Brooke Maggs and Mikael Kasurinen
GDC Plays GDCA Nominee Control
Interview with Mikael Kasurinen and Brooke Maggs.
Games Now Lecture Series 2020
Professional lecture series at Aalto University, Finland.
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) “Code Breakers” exhibition
A spotlight on Brooke Maggs and The Gardens Between which was one of many games included in the “Code Breakers:” exhibition. The exhibition aims to showcase games and the women who make them.
Games Connect Asia Pacific conference
Brooke discusses her narrative design process on The Gardens Between.
The WHeeler centre for books, writing and ideas
Writing for games panel for The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne’s culture and arts hub.
Podcasts
Listen to some of my interviews here or in any podcast app.
Publications
Fiction
My Wife and I in The One That Got Away, Dark Prints Press, 2012
Non-Fiction
Explainer: the art of video game writing for The Conversation
Writing Games for QW Magazine, The Queensland Writers’ Centre Issue 255
Academic Publications
The Writer Between: Thieving Literary Plot to Design Game Narrative, refereed conference proceedings for the Authorised Theft: Writing, Scholarship, Collaboration, the 21st Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, 2016, Canberra
Riding the Ghost Train Between the Stations; no platforms for me, conference paper, Writing the Ghost Train: Rewriting, Remaking, Rediscovering, the 20th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, 2015, Melbourne
Inherent Monstrosity in Narrative: The Witchy Writer and Liquid Identity, conference proceedings for the Monstrous12 conference held at Oxford University, 2014