You have finished your open-world masterpiece story and want to see your take on narrative-driven games materialized. The fate of many intense narrative-driven single-player games is determined mainly by the pitching process. But this process can be scary, especially if you are a new narrative…
Read more In his seminal book “The Hero with a Thousand Faces,” Joseph Campbell presents his grand monomyth theory. The theory is that all mythological stories and writing a good adventure story share one typical structure. Campbell referred to this as the…
Read more A perfect analogy of experiencing a good piece of creative writing for video games is a journey. Most stories, including writing for video games, follow a sequential order. Story structure refers to this sequence of events as they play out through the storytelling.…
Read more First things first, all apologies for intruding into topics beyond my ken. But nevertheless, I have some interesting observations to make about narrative in video games, which you can consider as part of your larger views about video game narrative theory.…
Read more Diligence is an essential part of excellence. Commitment to your passion matters just as much while writing video game scripts as any sort of writing you might practice. In fact, to excel, a video game scriptwriter must learn to get…
Read more Do you want to learn more about the black art of story and narrative development for video games? Then you have to first choose the format. You can learn about the craft of how to create the narrative of historical…
Read more On the surface, it would appear that game story writing includes a wide variety of genres. A good video game story can find its expression in many styles. But that observation is somewhat superficial. If you dig deeper, you will…
Read more As we mentioned previously in this blog, developing game narrative and game design have much in common. One can look at play game design fundamentals from a variety of viewpoints. Like the featured image of Nazca lines, perspectives can radically…
Read more I think it’s time to call in the cops. That new upstart creative genre of writing for video games is making sleeping impossible as they continue to party. Sounds like an amateurish attempt to craft an exciting lede for this…
Read more And you thought narrative designers have to write some decent dialogs only and work independently of the team. Here’s enlightenment for you- a video game narrative designer is an integral part of any game development team. At least teams that are developing…
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