February 2008

Video Game Narrative: The Different Types and How-to Start Writing

Game Design Document Outline

When writing a story you must take all key elements into account in order to produce a story that will flow for the reader. Stories can be broken down into five key elements; the characters, the setting, the plot, the conflict and the resolution. Finding a prompt for what to write a story about can be very difficult. To help, the following link provides an activity to come up with some story ideas!

I joined a game dev company and quickly learned the ropes of (Unity) game development from professionals. Like you said, most online tutorials are aimed at beginners

GO SMALLER UNTIL YOU CAN FINISH IT. If you're still struggling to finish you haven't reduced your scope enough in all three of the above areas

It's always easier to practice skills on their own than within a huge project where they will make or break the game and there are 16 interactions for everything you put into the project

Before you start developing a game for commercial release, you should already be confident that you can execute every major part of the development process.

And that difference is all about scope. If there is one thing you need to think about when starting a game project, it's scope.

Rebel Wolves said it will be a studio built on “the foundations of fairness, teamwork, and openness [...] unified by the mission of putting the team first —ALWAYS— [...] they believe that happy people create great games

Google killed SG&E about one year after Stadia launched, before the studio had released a game or done any public work. In a blog post announcing Stadia's pivot to a "platform technology," Stadia VP Phil Harrison explained the decision to shutter SG&E, saying, "Creating best-in-class games from the ground up takes many years and significant investment, and the cost is going up exponentially."

Reticulating Splines