Dave Morris

'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.

People nowadays think of gamebooks as rather old hat - and, after all, it was twenty years ago. In their heyday, though, they were a phenomenon, selling upwards of a hundred thousand units per title. And it's not as old hat as you might think: the same design skills I used in those days apply equally when I'm creating modern videogames.

When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for lessons we should be learning.

Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.