The Number One Educational Resource for the Game Industry
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Overview:
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People play games for their interactivity, but we as game writers may struggle with making our stories interactive too. How do we take a writing craft honed on linear stories for hundreds of years and make it interactive? Some argue this is essential to making a great game story, while others say that it is a distraction and even a hindrance from placing players a great tale. This talk argues that it all depends on the project. We will survey different types of interactivity in game stories and across different game genres, with an analysis of the costs and benefits and pitfalls of each. Then we'll provide the audience with tools to analyze their own games to see what sort of story would help them land on just the right amount of interactivity.
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