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Storylets Explained

Little chunks of story that know when they’re needed.

May 15

Storylets Explained

May 15

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The Layer Cake of Experience

A design lens for an experiential moment

May 9

The Layer Cake of Experience

May 9

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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

Listening to Story Choices

The player is telling us who they are through their gameplay actions. Why not listen to them?

May 25

Listening to Story Choices

May 25

Plus ça change…

“Okay, okay, listen — big story of Grum, fire-stealer. Grum not born like others — born from thunder rock, boom! He walk out with fire in…

May 23

Plus ça change…

May 23

Movie Scripts in Ren’Py

Adam (BirdCatcherGames) released a tool to convert Fountain movie scripts to Ren’py.

Apr 30

Movie Scripts in Ren’Py

Apr 30

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

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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