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A day in the life of a narrative designer

Game Global

When you imagine doing this job, is it mostly about crafting amazing cutscenes? Our most important storytelling tool is not the written word: We use the game’s feature set to tell its story. We need to understand, at least at a high level, all of its features. That’s why we have to understand the feature set.

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Darner's Digest, vol. 3: on the Yarn Spinner v2.0 release + a YS primer

Radiator Blog

Some games do all their cutscene scripting and even enemy AI in Yarn Spinner, because really, it's just a simple scripting language that does whatever you tell it to do. Nothing stops you from adding more commands, functions, markup tags, or new ways to process the script. // custom NPC AI script example?

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Sandbox vs themepark

Raph Koster

If you really care, the MUD Wiki on Fandom , started in the wake of the great Wikipedia purge of MUD content, has you covered. It was like resetting a little stage-play; the NPC actors hit their marks and reappeared at their start location. All the content in the game was just data in fields. But it also led to… envy.

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The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Others: Multiple replay reasons Lost Ark has innovated on some interesting gameplay systems besides quests and battles that encourage replaying content. The rough cutscene). The grand scene).

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Deathloop deconstruction / design thoughts

Radiator Blog

NOT telekinesis, only works on NPCs / PvP) Havoc (temporary shield / damage buff), very useful for people who keep dying (i.e. me) or PvP buff but conceptually rather boring Aether (cloak + invisible to laser sensors, attacks cancel it, can be upgraded to only consume mana while moving). Loadout is 3 guns.