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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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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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
Continue ReadingWorld Building With NPC Dialogue
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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