\nPick somebody whose work you are already familiar with, or play their games beforehand.
\nFind something that is potentially useful for your project.
\nWrite a short report with your “idea takeaways” (terrible terms) and highlights.<\/p>\n
Here’s some resources:<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n GDC Narrative Summit<\/strong> My highlights – short talks by more experimental creators (check the intros or the description to see what they worked on) Other good ones: Emily Short’s resources pages<\/strong> Other resources?<\/strong> At this stage of development it’s hard to find topics that are relevant to all the class projects. Game developers learn from each other all time, and you should get used to do so. Instead of the usual homeplay you have to find a talk, podcast, interview, or article by a game writer or narrative … Continue reading “Assignment\/Resources: Narrative Design Research”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1715","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1715\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2021\/files\/2021\/11\/Image-2.png\")
https:\/\/scriptlock.simplecast.com\/episodes<\/a>
\nScriptlock<\/strong>: a podcast interviewing the best narrative designers in the industry. Check the descriptions to see what they worked on.<\/p>\n
\nNarrative track of GDC<\/a> – the website is clunky, go to free content select a GDC -> year and then filter by “game narrative” to get a list of all the published talks of that year.<\/p>\n
\nNarrative Innovation showcase 2019<\/a>
\nNarrative Innovation showcase 2018<\/a>
\nNarrative Innovation showcase 2017<\/a>
\nNarrative Innovation showcase 2016<\/a><\/p>\n
\nForget Protagonists: Writing NPCs with Agency for 80 Days and Beyond<\/a>
\nInteractive Story Without Challenge Mechanics: The Design of ‘Firewatch’<\/a>
\nKill the Hero, Save the (Narrative) World (Mutazione)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/emshort.blog\/2019\/01\/08\/mailbag-self-training-in-narrative-design\/<\/a>
\nMostly articles. A lot of it is centered on text IF (Interactive Fiction) but there are many articles about narrative design in general. Not all the links count for this assignment: game designers talking about their work to other designers.<\/p>\n
\nChances are that you will find developers interviews for every moderately well known title. Just make sure the piece is for an audience of fellow creators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"