Meeting 21

MC: Giselle

Tomorrow: De'Andre

Game writing, part 2

Game writers don't just write things that the player will read and see. They also write things for the game design team to think about.

How to Write Your First Video Game Quest

Game writing includes:

• General backstory of the game
• Backstory of characters, NPCs, objects, etc
• Outline of what happens with scenes and characters, layout by layout
• Cutscene narratives
• Dialogue boxes

Formats:

• Traditional storywriting
• Outlines
• Flowcharts
• Scripts
• A mixture of any of these—whatever works!

Important:
Game writers can also create possible narratives that the rest of the team hasn't decided upon, but might consider in the future. This is world-building—giving the game design team a lot to think about as they create other aspects of the game.

Narrative design myth-busting: It's not "just lore"

Expanding the storyverse with Twine

Possibilities:

• Backstory of a character (player, enemies, NPCs)
• Backstory of the world environment
• A narrative extension — a story that involves elements from your game, but it is different than the actual story happening in your game
• A possible dialogue between 2 characters
• "Fan fiction" — a story that could be written by an enthusiastic fan of your game

Note: you can link a Twine story (once it is online) to a Construct game by adding a Browser object to your project. Then, you can create a line of code that asks the browser to go to a particular website.

Collaborative teams,
you are a "design office"

You will require a dedicated webpage for your company/brand.

Send me:

• Design office name
• Background and text color
• Website images or mascot
• Your mission statement
• Professional roles for each member (programmer, character artist, level designer, composer, writer, etc.)