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“Writing a book, it’s mostly just me and my editor and my agent. Specifically, she says it’s the inherently collaborative nature of game development that really helps in this regard. It always feels like something new - it keeps my brain interested.” But the fact that I’m writing in all of these different mediums keeps it really fresh, because - even though technically I’m just sitting at my computer writing all the time - it always feels like I’m doing something different. “If I was writing five or six games at the same time, I would find it really difficult. For Maggs, juggling all of these jobs is made much easier thanks to the variety that they offer. While navigating the con circuit for work, she says she started travelling in the same circles as a lot of BioWare developers, which eventually led to her getting her break in the gaming industry as an assistant writer.įast forward to the present and any one of these aforementioned games would seem impressive enough on their own, but Maggs’ continues to balance those alongside other writing gigs, like the novel The Unstoppable Wasp: Built on Hope, the Marvel Action: Captain Marvel comic, or even Netflix’s latest interactive Bear Grylls special. Throughout all of that, she’s kept a particular focus on how women can find enjoyment in the often male-dominated world of fandom. In the years since, she’s had a prolific career that includes event hosting, entertainment journalism, non-fiction best-sellers, and graphic novels featuring the likes of Marvel, Transformers, and Rick & Morty. “I was obsessed with that game - I loved that I could play as a girl, so I felt like I could see myself in a game for the first time, kind of.” Super Mario 64 was really formative for me - it’s why I still play all my games inverted on the Y-axis, which I know makes me a pariah, but so be it,” Maggs says with a laugh at Toronto’s Fan Expo event.īut it was, rather fittingly, the 1998 fantasy-RPG Baldur’s Gate from Canada’s own BioWare that got her to truly fall in love with video games. And then my first console of my own was the N64. We had an Intellivision when I was a kid - Burger Time was my favorite.