UX Writing

The craft of writing the words in a game's interface, button labels, tooltips, error messages, onboarding text, and notifications, to be clear, concise, and useful.

In games, this means

The difference between 'An error occurred' and 'Connection lost, check your internet and try again' is UX writing. Good UX copy tells players exactly what happened and what to do next, in the voice and tone of the game.