Showing posts with label narrative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label narrative. Show all posts
Monday, April 7, 2025

Tryhard dev log - Cutscene and Game Scripting with Yarn Spinner v3.0 beta

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In our upcoming game Tryhard , we have cutscenes and dialogue and level scripting like many other RPGs. This dev log is about how we’re impl...
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...
Monday, January 17, 2022

Darner's Digest, vol. 3: on the Yarn Spinner v2.0 release + a YS primer

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Darner's Digest is a series of blog posts about Yarn Spinner, a free open source Unity dialogue tree plugin. On December 21st, 2021, the...
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, March 26, 2019

new Unity tool: Bobbin

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I wanted to be able to write game dialogue in Google Docs (from my phone or tablet, or to share with external collaborators) and then aut...
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...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Writing stories / dialogue for Unity games with Yarn

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I've been using Yarn for a little while, and I've grown to prefer it as my "talking to NPCs" solution for game developm...
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...
Monday, July 31, 2017

new tool: Yarn Weaver

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I'm working on a game that uses the excellent Yarn and YarnSpinner narrative toolkit for Unity. For this project, I'm also collab...
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 ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

On legacy systems and Kentucky Route Zero (Acts I-IV) by Cardboard Computer

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A lot of people will say Kentucky Route Zero is "minimalist"... but I think that label is pretty misleading. It packs every ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Identity, camerawork, and time in games; on "Into" by Audrey Moon

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This post spoils Into , which is about 5-10 minutes to play. You should probably play it first, if you care about spoilers and such. I...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Videogames for Humans, edited by Merritt Kopas

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The first reaction most people had was, "it's bigger than I expected." 575 pages to be exact. But that obfuscates the actual...
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, "...