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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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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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
Continue ReadingThe Bare Bones Of Narrative: A Hero’s Journey
The Hero’s Journey outlines the main building blocks of pretty much all movies, books, or, for that matter, any story in general. It’s best not to
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