Narrative Design for Mobile and Live Games

ISBN-13: 9781032286044 / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str.

France) Tamer Valentina (Ubisoft Paris Mobile

Opis

This is a comprehensive guidebook for long-term storytelling in mobile games and games-as-a-service (aka live games). The book formalizes creative techniques of game writing and narrative design for a platform (and revenue model) that has shown drastic growth and changes over the past few years.

Spis treści

Part I Introduction

Chapter 1 What Is Narrative Design?

Chapter 2 An Overview of Narrative Design

Chapter 3 Why Does Narrative Design Matter?

Part II Interactive Storytelling

Chapter 4 Introduction to Interactive Storytelling

Chapter 5 Interactive Storytelling Structures

Chapter 6 Open-Ended Storytelling Structures

Part III Live Game Storytelling

Chapter 7 Introduction to Mobile Game Storytelling

Chapter 8 Introduction to Live Game Storytelling

Chapter 9 Learning from Other Media

Chapter 10 Building the Narrative Foundation

Chapter 11 Narrative Tools

Chapter 12 Planning Your Seasons

Chapter 13 Writing Your Seasonal Plot

Chapter 14 Keeping a Long-Running Story Interesting

Chapter 15 Best Practices

Part IV Beyond a Game’s Story

Chapter 16 Transmedia Storytelling

Chapter 17 Narrative Monetization

Part V Conclusion

Conclusion

O autorze

Valentina Tamer is a narrative designer and game writer with several years of experience in the games industry, throughout which she’s crafted engaging stories for a wide range of videogames, from mobile games to narrative adventures. Val currently works as a senior narrative designer for Ubisoft Paris Mobile.