OXO TALKS | Literature and video games. Zara's game.

Before being images, video games were words. Literature and videogames have been idyllic for several decades, and what's left for them...: Literary videogames and videogame literature are the subject of this talk with the author of El Juego de Zara, a unique approach to videogames from the literary point of view,

Ángel Luís Sucasasas

Photo by Eva Pernás

(Pontevedra, 1984) Designer at Mercury Steam (Castlevania, Metroid, Spacelords). Narrative and cinematics director on Song of Nunu, A League of Legend Story (Tequila Works, 2023). He has also been narrative director on indie titles A Place for the Unwilling (Kowloon Games, 2019) and Scarf (THQ Nordic, 2020). As a novelist, he has published seven books with publishers such as Planeta or Nevsky, one of them inspired by the world of video game developers (Zhara's Game, 2019). As a journalist and columnist, he writes for media such as El País, Jot Down, Espinof and El Ideal Gallego.