Companions, Character Archetypes & Creating Player Bonds
In this article, I’m turning my back on the main protagonists who usually bask in the limelight of our stories and our conversations. Because today I’m
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Key Ingredients To Writing Compelling Video Game Characters
One of the biggest struggles of narrative design is creating strong characters when they have such limited showtime and script. Movies and cinematic cutscenes give writers
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Narrative Design: World Building With Barks
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
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Game Writing: Structuring Branching Dialogue
I’ve gotten myself in a bit of a pickle writing dialogue trees in games at times, usually after getting carried away in a moment of creativity
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Kickstarting Creativity: Improv
Do you know what one of my biggest career-related fears is? I specifically say career-related because obviously swimming with sharks, finding a spider in my shoe
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How To End A Game That Never Ends
I write for Kenshi; Kenshi is a non-linear sandbox game. It’s meant to be limitless, unconstraining and completely open. Yet there are rare times when I
Continue ReadingVideo Game Localisation: How To Make It Not Shit
The localisation process for Kenshi was a hideous nightmare of endless problems and completely alien language rules to me. I’d never handled game localisation before, let
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Kenshi was a mammoth of a game to have localised, or at least it was for our miniature team of four people. The total word count
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