I knew that I loved video games, I really wanted to write, and it was a combination of writing being the only thing that I’d ever really shown any aptitude toward in school, while at the same time, the only thing that I was really that interested in was video games. But I grew up loving those 8-bit games and transitioned in to the 16-bit era right as I was leaving school and desperately wanted to do something like this for a living. I grew up in the UK, so I was much more a child of the Commodore and the Sinclair computer game world than I was really of Nintendo and Sega. I was reading the Commodore 64 games magazines and playing kind of Sinclair Spectrum and C64 games. I started, jeez-I started way back in the 8-bit days of computer gaming.
Okay, so you started your career as a game reviewer, so just tell us a bit about how you got involved with that. Visit to listen to the interview or other episodes. This interview first appeared on ’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, which is hosted by David Barr Kirtley and produced by John Joseph Adams. He recently used the Ink Shares crowdfunding platform to publish his first novel, Abomination.
Gary has written for video games and comics and he also worked on the upcoming feature film Star Wars: Rogue One, which (unfortunately) he is strictly forbidden from discussing. Garry Whitta wrote the screenplay for the post-apocalyptic thriller The Book of Eli, starring Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman, and also worked on the script for After Earth, an SF adventure starring Will Smith and directed by M.
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