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Sam Lake Biography

Sami Järvi (born March 28, 1970), better known by his artist name Sam Lake ('Järvi' is Finnish for lake), is a Finnish writer who is known for his work (as well as his likeness) on the popular Max Payne video game series and for writing Alan Wake. Lake is good friends with Petri Järvilehto, a founding member of Remedy Entertainment, the company behind Max Payne. Järvilehto needed help with script-writing in one of Remedy's early games, Death Rally, and invited Lake to write. Lake also wrote the script for the 2016 video game Quantum Break.

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I think that in general - well, at least it's true for me - you tend to put something of yourself into the story as a whole. Not necessarily in any character, you understand. But you've got your own way of looking at the world, and that naturally will affect how you craft a story.

Character, Stories, Tend, Thinking, Understand, Way

Well, we look for sources of inspiration in pop culture in general. It's very important for us that, when it comes to storytelling, we don't look into other video games. We'd rather look into other mediums - movies, television series and books - for sources of inspiration.

Book, Culture, Games, Inspiration, Movies

There needs to be just a little bit of crazy when dreaming up a new concept.

Crazy, Dream, Dreaming, Needs

It's also very important to make sure that the main character and the player are completely in synch.

Character, Completely, Important, Player

Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn't video games be an art form?

Acting, Art, Games, Prose

The way you write dialogue is the same whether you're writing for movies or TV or games. We use movie scriptwriting software to write the screenplays for our games, but naturally we have things in the script that you would never have in a movie script -- different branches and optional dialogue, for example. But still, when it comes to storytelling and dialogue, they are very much the same.

Example, Games, Movie, Way, Write, Writing

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