Showing posts with label ludonarrative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ludonarrative. Show all posts
Saturday, May 20, 2023

The joys of the anti-farm sim: "Before the Green Moon" by turnfollow

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SPOILER ALERT: This post SPOILS what happens in Before The Green Moon. I strongly recommend playing it first. Before The Green Moon  (on It...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

The Forgotten City (2021) revisited

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I've written previously about murder in Skyrim , epic Skyrim fan game Enderal , and a very bushy Skyrim mod called The Forgotten City . ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Notes on "Sparkling Dialogue", a great narrative design / game writing talk by Jon Ingold at AdventureX 2018

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My colleague Clara Fernandez-Vara pointed me towards this great game writing talk by Jon Ingold this year at AdventureX , an excellent ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Darner's Digest, vol. 2: Why I made two new Yarn tools

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Darner's Digest is a series of occasional posts about the game dialogue system Yarn. Last time, I talked about some Yarn community ne...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Darner's Digest, vol. 1

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Darner's Digest is a series of occasional posts about the game dialogue system Yarn. As I've written before , there are a varie...
Thursday, May 31, 2018

On the indie story RPG's use of "encounter-space" and Fortune-499

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This post spoils some gameplay systems / moments in Fortune-499 and its general themes, but none of the specific plot events. I just fini...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Behold the bildungsspiel: the coming-of-age game

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NOTE: There are somewhat vague spoilers about the general plot for several games in this post. US high school students are generally re...
Friday, September 8, 2017

On "Tacoma" by The Fullbright Company

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This post spoils some of Tacoma and Sleep No More. Tacoma is a sensible design progression from Gone Home . How do you expand upon the...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

How To Tell A Story With A Video Game (even if you don't make or play games)

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This post is a summary of a talk I gave at Storycode NYC on August 22nd, 2017. All the slides are available here . It is a primer for story...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

StoryCode August 2017 Forum at Film Society, Lincoln Center, NYC

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Next week on August 22nd, I'll be giving a presentation for StoryCode , a local community group focused on immersive media and story...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

The war in heaven: a three-dimensional VR culture clash

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Virtual reality is a weird collaboration between several different fields / industries, and each practice brings its own assumptions and ...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Pain Festival

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As a palette cleanser from the last four sex games, I've been remaking my favorite of Alan Hazelden 's Puzzlescript suite, "...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Notes on discontinuity and interiors in open world games

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To enter a different level in Thief 4, you frequently have to mash [E] to pry open glowing windows (or lift fallen wood beams) as the game...