The Game Narrative Toolbox is designed to guide readers to become professional narrative designers — perhaps a seemingly slight difference from game writers, but this...

...Professors at a game program] say that it’s possible for them to teach graduates on how to be indie developers. That made me...

...In games, I’m used to being able to compel the player’s attention to a particular moment by putting a choice there. If...

...game story prototyping happens in Twine these days.
Which reminds me to mention that Chris Klimas has a Patreon for Twine maintenance and development...

...In a lot of tabletop gaming scenarios, you want to come up with a premise or scenario that could have interesting repercussions. “Scientists develop...

...how storylets are chosen as eligible for display.
Kreminski also built a storylet system and a small prototype game of their own, a piece...

...Curse of the Black Cat is a Choice of Games title in which you, as a great cat burglar, have to pull together a...

...Of course, the reveries become a building block to consciousness, in some fashion, but passages about that largely leave behind any explanation of how...

...None of those reflections significantly diminished how much I respect this game, though. Return of the Obra Dinn commits to a few systemic design...

...I’d love to see a follow up on how you feel things have changed. From the perspective of a “traditional” game developer IF...