Beth 🫧
@bethbkr.bsky.social
writer, editor, gamer working in HE 🌬️ interested in narrative technologies, interactive storytelling, experiential learning 📖👾 wild books and coffees may appear
Especially relevant to the advancement of open world games. Technologically brilliant, high physical agency, but what does good open world storytelling look like?
#gamedev #narrative
#gamedev #narrative
People often talk about the unique qualities that video games have as a storytelling medium but they don't really talk about how the interactive nature of video games can also be restrictive to storytelling and I think there's an interesting discussion to be had there
December 7, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Especially relevant to the advancement of open world games. Technologically brilliant, high physical agency, but what does good open world storytelling look like?
#gamedev #narrative
#gamedev #narrative
Reposted by Beth 🫧
There's so much more we could be doing with narrative in games. So many different ways we could use interactive storytelling to evoke empathy, pass on knowledge, teach things, understand ideas & experiences.
We ignore that storytelling has been part of our culture for millennia
#gamedev #narrative
We ignore that storytelling has been part of our culture for millennia
#gamedev #narrative
Ppl who like narrative games likely enjoy other storytelling media, so why should they play a game with weaker storytelling than a book. These games need to have a high level of storytelling craft, but also do what games do well & other media can't
November 27, 2024 at 4:26 PM
There's so much more we could be doing with narrative in games. So many different ways we could use interactive storytelling to evoke empathy, pass on knowledge, teach things, understand ideas & experiences.
We ignore that storytelling has been part of our culture for millennia
#gamedev #narrative
We ignore that storytelling has been part of our culture for millennia
#gamedev #narrative