An Interview with Zero Punctuation’s Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw

From the “why didn’t I think of this” files comes an interview on Boing Boing from famed game reviewer Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, the creator of the hilarious “Zero Punctuation” videos. After watching his game reviews week after week, it’s interesting to hear what goes into making each video:

I usually take a few days to play through the game and I’ll usually finish it, or get as far as I can before I feel I can formulate an opinion. After that I’ll devote a day to writing the script. I don’t take notes, but I’ll usually latch onto maybe 4 or 5 points and get a paragraph or two out of each. I generally compare the text to older reviews then to make sure I’ve written enough. Then comes making the images, which usually takes me 2 or 3 days. I used to record the speech first, but I found that I’d sometimes want to make changes to the script while making the images, especially if I wanted to reword a phrase that I found too hard to visualise. Once the images are done, recording the narration and stringing it all together in Windows Movie Maker is the easy part.

He also discusses some of his other interests, including game design — as evidenced by the independent release of “Trilby: The Art of Theft” — and how he ended up working for The Escapist. You can view the whole interview by clicking the link below.

Via Boing Boing