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Once Upon a Time: Giving Players the Freedom to Create Their Own Story
Designers spend much of their time coming up with environments, game mechanics and combat encounters that help tell their game's story. But there's a second story to each game, the one created by the individual player's moment-to-moment actions in the game. With these two conflicting stories going on (the authored storyline and the more organic player's story), which takes precedence and can they co-exist within the framework of a single video game? This talk examines the popular techniques for storytelling in games and attempts to explain how almost everybody has it wrong.
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