If you want people to follow your plot," Ken Levine told the audience, "it has to be really f---ing stupid."
His words weren't exactly eloquent, but the creative director and co-founder of BioShock developer 2K Boston got his point across: video games stories aren't valued very highly. "The bad news is, for storytellers, nobody cares about your stupid story," Levine said during a packed session at the recent Game Developer Conference in San Francisco.
