Games Writing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Writing in game text<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Dialogue<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Flavour text<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Narration<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Cutscenes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Narrative Design <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Bigger picture<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Usually a more senior role<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Overlap with game designers<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Works with other departments<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Mechanics, settings, lore, overall plot etc. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Things to Consider with Narrative Design<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Structure\n
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- Linear, nonlinear?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Who is your player character?\n
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- How can you express your protagonist?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Do the narrative and other aspects of the game support each other?\n
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- Ludonarrative dissonance<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- What sort of story do you have the ability to tell\n
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- What research do you need to do<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- scope<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- How will your player experience and interact with the story?\n
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- Npcs<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Dialogue <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Player actions<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- cutscenes <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Descriptions<\/em>
<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\nI plan for my game to rely heavily on narrative so I greatly enjoyed this lecture and it contained very helpful points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our tech session this week introduced us to Ink a helpful narrative writing tool that allows you to easily create multi choice narrative games using Inks own language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nIt also contains a built in Unity package to easily merge the two programs, I plan to use this to handle the branching dialogue in my games prototype <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The workshop this week focused on helping us use effective storytelling. We worked in pairs to create a simple branching narrative story with the help of these worksheets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nWe created a story about finding a puppet in the woods, once you pick the puppet up it starts sucking the life out of you. However once you put it down it screams like a child causing immense distress. If you hold it for too long you eventually turn into a puppet for the next unfortunate soul to find. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWe laid the story out into a flowchart including multiple endings and choices for the player. Once we had this I prototyped the game in Twine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Dialogue <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- scope<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- What sort of story do you have the ability to tell\n
- Do the narrative and other aspects of the game support each other?\n
- Who is your player character?\n
- Linear, nonlinear?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Structure\n