COLUMN: Quiz Me Qwik: ‘A Russian Literature Primer With Akella’

[’Quiz Me Quik’ is a new weekly GameSetWatch column by journalist Alistair Wallis, in which he picks offbeat subjects in the game business and interviews them about their business, their perspective, and their unique view of life. This time, a Russian literary game adaptation is probed.]
Unfortunately, what I know about Russian literature could fit on the back of a business card. It could, in fact, fit on the back of a business card even if you were using really, really big writing and a big thick permanent marker to write it, and then had to cross out a bit and rewrite it because you’d misspelled a few of the words. I could name maybe three or four authors, but that’s about it.
I know enough to divine, though, that the Strugatsky brothers – Arkady and Boris – are pretty damned popular in the former Soviet territories. They’re like, say, Noel […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (alistairw) and software by Elliott Back