Can you talk about intersecting identities as a theme? Can you talk about how you went about tackling the interplay of Sam’s disability and his online identity? But for the most part, big games are made by big companies with teams of hundreds now.
And I wouldn’t say that that’s necessarily true anymore, with a few exceptions – the guy who made Stardew Valley was basically a one-man operation. There was a point in the early ‘90s, where you could make a really big game with relatively few people working on it. I thought of all these people as the mix of the many kinds of personalities you need to succeed in any game endeavor – any artistic endeavor. There’s also John Carmack and John Romero, the guys behind Doom and Commander Keen. Those games were made by a married couple in Southern California, Ken and Roberta Williams. One of my early inspirations for the book was thinking about near-educational games like the King’s Quest series from Sierra Entertainment. Were there any game industry personalities you took inspiration from for your characters and the story? There’s something very enticing about a book about work and the potential of creative partnerships – can you talk about that? The following interview has been edited for length and clarity. In “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow,” Zevin examines teamwork, online and offline identities, the intensity of friend relationships, and how work that is fueled by love can produce transcendent works of art. But it also raises questions of individual identity that Sam and Sadie must grapple with, and sets seemingly impossible expectations for what their partnership must accomplish next. Released in that brief window of history when games built by two or three people in a dorm room could explode in popularity, “Ichigo” catapults Sam, Sadie and Marx to industry stardom. Related: Sign up for our free Books newsletter about bestsellers, authors and moreĪs college students, they reconnect in Cambridge (via an inside joke from Oregon Trail, an educational game popular in the ‘80s and ‘90s and a cultural touchstone for younger Gen X-ers/older Millennials) and embark on creating their own game, “Ichigo,” with the help of Sam’s roommate Marx. The two have different backgrounds – Korean American Sam is disabled and living with his grandparents in Los Angeles’ Koreatown Sadie is Jewish and lives in Beverly Hills – but they strike up a deep though brief friendship over video games. Spanning three decades, “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” tells the fictional tale of video game creators Sam Masur and Sadie Green. Can a story about work also be a story about great love? Absolutely, according to best-selling author and screenwriter Gabrielle Zevin, and that’s what her latest book, out now from Pengui n Random House, is all about.
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