Fulfilling fantasies and building investment: The narrative design of Alan Wake 2
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Fulfilling fantasies and building investment: The narrative design of Alan Wake 2
When you choose a set of mechanics as crucial to your gameplay, you will need to choose technology that can support them, aesthetics that emphasize them clearly to players, and a story that allows your (sometimes strange) game mechanics to make sense to the players.
Schell • The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
Narrative works on an emotional level. It takes time and resources to come to fruition, and skill to do it effectively. Its purpose, beyond the specific content, is to drive four things: Attachment, Anticipation, Identification, and Investment. If you create strong narrative content, your chances are good to produce these desired results.Good narra... See more
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These 7 patterns serve as my design lens and methodology for understanding and improving player experience:
Clarity: Prioritizing what matters to players, ensuring they know what to do and why
Motivation: Keeping players engaged, driving them forward with purpose and excitement
Response: Creating an AAA-level experience without breaking the bank on vi... See more
Clarity: Prioritizing what matters to players, ensuring they know what to do and why
Motivation: Keeping players engaged, driving them forward with purpose and excitement
Response: Creating an AAA-level experience without breaking the bank on vi... See more
In emergent storytelling systems, authorship is distributed. The designer or writer creates a system of possibilities and symbols rather than a fixed sequence. Then the player’s presence and choices in that system bring about specific story moments. Researcher Hartmut Koenitz, for instance, argues that interactive digital narratives demand new anal
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