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What does a Narrative Department do?

“You write the story, right?”

Jan 17, 2024

What does a Narrative Department do?

Jan 17, 2024

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Communicating Characters

Or: “How do you get the rest of your team to understand the cool character you made up?”

Jun 14, 2023

Communicating Characters

Jun 14, 2023

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Job Functions in Game Narrative

Or: What does that pesky Narrative Designer title actually mean?

Jun 30, 2022

Job Functions in Game Narrative

Jun 30, 2022

Storylet Framework

More idle code-noodling for me — a simple framework for specifying storylets in Json, shuffling and prioritising them, and keeping track…

Apr 5

Storylet Framework

Apr 5

Multi-language Expression Parser & Evaluator

Gamedevs! I made a multi-language string expression parser and evaluator.

Mar 16

Multi-language Expression Parser & Evaluator

Mar 16

Dialogue Reaction Time

Just pause a moment and let it sink in.

Jan 24

Dialogue Reaction Time

Jan 24

How Fuzzy is Your Game Character?

I prefer creating video game protagonists that aren’t wholly defined, leaving room for the player to bring their own ideas to the character…

Dec 16, 2024

How Fuzzy is Your Game Character?

Dec 16, 2024

How far away is the player?

No, we’re not talking about lag times! I want to talk about the distance between the protagonist — the player character — and the player.

Dec 14, 2024

How far away is the player?

Dec 14, 2024

Fountain Movie Script Parser — JavaScript, Python, C#, C++

I’ve released the open-source library fountain-tools, parsing utilities for the Fountain movie script format. It’s available in multiple…

Dec 1, 2024

Fountain Movie Script Parser — JavaScript, Python, C#, C++

Dec 1, 2024

A Fact-Based Story Design

TL;DR — Use a single source of truth for tracking the player’s journey across the game and make it easy to query!

Oct 27, 2024

A Fact-Based Story Design

Oct 27, 2024

Ian Thomas

Ian Thomas

Ian is narrative director, coder, and writer of video games, films, larp, books, live events, and VR/AR experiences. Find him on Bluesky or LinkedIn.

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