How do you write a video game?

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I either need first hand experience, or the link to a really good website, because everything I've looked up online isn't very useful. I've taken classes that taught me how to write, movies, TV shows, stage plays, sports casts, and radio scripts. Yet I haven't the slightest clue how to write a script for a video game, story-boarding the game seems easy enough, but I like to do a full script before a storyboard.

So anyone out there know how to? Or at least have a good link I could use, and not just the top ones Google recommends?

Games are a whole other kettle of fish than simply writing a story.. the first thing you need to understand about how it differs is that your not writing a story your creating a world in which some things are predetermined and will always happen but most of the game will be about the story the player writes using the tools and objects and characters you give them its about encounters and story branches and choices rather than a straight line from page 1 to "the end".