This week looked at primarily using narrative design to sustain and promote the essential experience. We received another guest speaker, Amber Boothe from Nobody’s Fool<\/em> Myster Games<\/em>, a games company that offers immersive team-building murder mystery events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She went over the basics and her formula for creating effective murder mystery game plots as well as solid character designs. Regarding the structure or designing a good murder mystery game, we were prompted to answer these four foundational points (Concept, Premise, Characters and Logic):<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, now that we have the formula outlined for us, we had a go at constructing our own small murder mystery games in groups. Logic<\/strong> The twist makes it harder to catch the killer, because nobody except the Captain’s Daughter and the First Mate knew that the Navigator was actually a Siren. Double Twist: The Siren as the Navigator doesn’t care for the Captain’s Daughter, and is intent on steering the ship towards rocks to kill and eat everyone on the ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Extra Plot Points:<\/strong> Feedback<\/strong> This workshop was not only super silly and fun to do but also really insightful in terms of being able to breakdown the construction of a good story and also analyse a formula that works. Although the workshop didn’t directly relate to my game, I still gained skills that will help deal with my game in easier, smaller chunks and it was nice to have a go at something new and have a break from the GDD work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Narrative Design This week looked at primarily using narrative design to sustain and promote the essential experience. We received another guest speaker, Amber Boothe from Nobody’s Fool Myster Games, a games company that offers immersive team-building murder mystery events. She went over the basics and her formula for creating effective murder mystery game plots as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Title: <\/strong>Siren Night
Logline<\/strong>: It’s on a boat.
Inspired by sea mythology for players who enjoy petty pirates.
Setup:<\/strong> The boat is compromised of humans and a secret siren. One day, the Captain falls dead!
Twist:<\/strong> The Captain’s Daughter killed her father to be with the Siren, whom she fell in love with.
Double Twist:<\/strong> The siren doesn’t even love the Captain’s Daughter, but unbeknownst to the rest of the crew is steering the boat towards her Siren friends for a feast.<\/p>\n\n\n\nName<\/td> Character Profile<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Captain Miranda<\/td> The victim and Captain, dead from jellyfish poisoning<\/td><\/tr> Eliza<\/td> The Captain’s Daughter and murderer<\/td><\/tr> Maria<\/td> The Siren in disguise as the Navigator (steering them off course)<\/td><\/tr> LOVE (the concept)<\/td> The secondary victim<\/td><\/tr> Dr. Hook<\/td> The Doctor who assess the body<\/td><\/tr> Mr. M. Binder<\/td> The First Mate, the closest person to the Captain, had a recent disagreement with him [the Captain]<\/td><\/tr> Mr. Howard<\/td> The Quartermaster, maintains day to day life on the ship<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
* The Captain hurt the Captain’s Daughter by telling her she could never be with the Navigator.
* The Captain’s Daughter cares deeply for the Navigator, having fallen in love with her.
* The Captain’s Daughter kills the Captain to be with the Navigator<\/p>\n\n\n\n
* The Captain left a note that said “BEWARE THE SIREN”, indicating that one of the players are not what they seem to set up the doppleganger twist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Groups then quickly debrief another group of their narratives and receive feedback:
– How does the love plot affect other characters?
+ The secondary twist is good and surprising; not where you’d traditionally expect the twist to be<\/p>\n\n\n\n