6/1/2023 0 Comments Metro dmitry glukhovsky![]() ![]() Books were helping the games, the games were helping the books, and somehow Metro - especially Metro - is a story that's playable. ![]() "Turning that into a transmedia thing a very natural thing. "When they wanted to create a game based on it, I was really excited because I already, by the rights of my birth, belong to the generation that fucking loves video games," Glukhovsky tells. Ukranian developer 4A Games had read this when they approached the author. In 2002, Glukhovsky set up a website dedicated to this story he planned to tell, occasionally publishing new chapters for free. Interestingly, the original Metro 2033 game dates back to before the novel was ever published. Dmitry Glukhovsky, author (Image: Ksenia Tavrina) By the time the game adaptation of Metro 2033 landed on shelves, its source material was already translated into at least a dozen languages and was a best-seller in Russia, Germany, Poland and several other countries.īut the games have contributed to taking Metro international, with Glukhovsky telling us "the existence of pirated games" have seen the books brought to Iran, Thailand, Korea and other far-flung nations. While he acknowledges they have "definitely helped", the "viral magic" of the first novel - Metro 2033 - has seen it shared among friends throughout the author's home market of Russia and beyond. It's difficult for Dmitry Glukhovsky to say exactly how his book sales have been boosted by the release of the Metro video games. ![]()
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