Narrative shouldn’t be relegated to a “story wrapper” and should be better integrated into the development process, says game writer and narrative designer Kelsey Beachum. Speaking during the opening ...

The sheer number of storytelling improvements in video games really stood out in the 2010s, ranging from the incremental to the truly innovative, facilitating better — and sometimes altogether new — ...

Joshua grew up in poverty, deep in the Middle of Nowhere, Alabama. Gaming was a rarely afforded escape from reality that persisted throughout his life, something that saw him through good times and ...

This course highlights the central structural and aesthetic role narrative brings to game design. Stories and roleplaying predate all other art forms, and narrative-based entertainment will continue ...

Storytelling in video games comes in many forms, whether it's in-game dialogue, environmental details, or even info dumps of lore via found documents and audio logs. Cinematic cutscenes have been a ...

The latest update to the company’s narrative design solution helps studios streamline, scale, and integrate narrative design with game development for shorter production pipelines. ST. JOHN’S, ...

Here’s a description of the job itself: The Narrative Designer participates in the crafting of a game’s story and designing its narrative systems, creating characters, defining the story behind ...

In order to make progress in game development, people in the industry need to understand that authorship is collaborative, Harmonix senior narrative designer Matthew Weise said during a GDC panel.

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