The Game Narrative Toolbox (Paperback, 3rd Edition)

Learn how to create compelling game storylines.

Four experienced narrative designers from different genres of game development have banded together to create this all-inclusive guide on what it's like to work as a writer and narrative designer in the video game industry. From concept to final testing, The Game Narrative Toolbox walks readers through what role a narrative designer plays on a development team and what the requirements are at every stage of development. Drawing on real experiences, authors Tobias Heussner, Toiya Kristen Finley, PhD, Ann Lemay, and Jennifer Brandes Hepler provide invaluable advice for writing compelling player-centered stories and effective dialogue trees to help readers make the switch from writing prose or screenplay to interactive.

Thoroughly revised, theSecond Edition includes updated content reflecting the industry’s latest developments. In addition to revised and updated chapters, this new edition features two additional chapters covering more advanced topics that are applicable to the lessons learned from the original chapters.

Accompanying every chapter are exercises that allow the reader to develop their own documentation, outlines, and game-dialogue samples for use in applying for industry jobs or developing independent projects.

Table of Contents

Chapter 01 What Is Narrative Design?

Chapter 02 The Concept

Chapter 03 Worldbuilding

Chapter 04 Characters

Chapter 05 Story

Chapter 06 Implementation and Production

Chapter 07 Dialogue

Chapter 08 Cutscenes and Cinematics

Chapter 09 Troubleshooting

Chapter 10 Visual Novels

Chapter 11 Storytelling in Open-World Games and Games-as-a-Service

Conclusion

References

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Focal Press Game Design Workshops
Release date:	August 2023
First published:	2024
Authors:	Jennifer Brandes Hepler • Toiya Kristen Finley • Tobias Heussner • Ann Lemay
Dimensions:	254 x 178mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	328
Edition:	3rd Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-243896-2
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer certification > General Promotions Books > Promotion > JB Academic
LSN:	1-03-243896-7
Barcode:	9781032438962

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