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Narrative Design: World Building With Barks

By Natalie Mikkelson Posted On May 14, 2020 Indie Guides, Writing For Games No Comments

Barks: What are they? Barks are the Tourette’s-like bouts of disconnected dialogue that NPCs so love to blurt out, often out of nowhere. In theory they

World Building With NPC Dialogue

By Natalie Mikkelson Posted On December 22, 2018 Indie Guides, Writing For Games No Comments

Three years ago I unexpectedly became Lo-Fi Games’ narrative designer for our huge 355 square mile open world RPG, Kenshi. Being a sandbox, there exists no