Already, there have been some incredibly strong contenders as nominations - and winners - of the award. As of 2018, the Nebula Awards now welcome the contribution of games as a storytelling device through their Game Writing category. As games have evolved, so too have the writers creating them, and increasingly we are seeing some masterful strokes of storytelling within gaming. T alking directly to the player has evolved into something more than delivering a paragraph of exposition to them during a loading screen.