"Writing" games?

[Nostalginaut]

A couple of years ago, I was given a copy of the game Elegy for a Dead World and...well, I kinda liked it. There wasn't (isn't) much to it, and the player base isn't really there, but I still think it's kinda neat. I just jumped on and wrote a (crummy, admittedly) formula-poem for fun.

I also just kinda write for fun, so maybe it's just me.

Anyway, I teach (high school) writing and it'd crossed my mind to point some kiddos of mine whom I know to be Steam gamers in the direction of some of these "writing" games, if there're any more out there. (In fact, we begin a poetry unit next week, and I know of at least one student who'd love to try his hand with some of the formula poems in Elegy for a Dead World.)

Any recommendations?

[Spawn of Totoro]

Not sure what a writing game is

There are several typing games on Steam, where you have to type in order to do things.

For example, Typing of the Dead. You have to type out the words in order to "shoot" the zombies.

[Nostalginaut]

Yeah, I guess a "writing game" is sort of nebulous. If you check out the trailer for Elegy for a Dead World, it's more-specifically what I'm looking for, but *some* typing games would certainly fit the bill. Word-search games, not so much, but I do enjoy some of those, myself (Words for Evil is strangely addictive, and for some reason I *love* the soundtrack).

[Spawn of Totoro]

Try this one then. It is on my wish list as it seemed interesting, though I haven't decided myself yet.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/398850

[Tycho]

What I love to do is play a game, Skyrim for example, for a few hours and then write down my adventure. Then I just make fanfiction out of it, write my own little story, unrelated to Skyrim's one.
What I want to say you can try playing a game and write down your gameplay as fanfiction.
To clarify that a bit, I'll use the same example as above, if you play Skyrim, write a fanfiction about an adventurer who lived in the feudal era. (Closely following your in-game journey)
Now, what's interesting to me is a gamer professor. Wish we had some over here.