The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox by Heussner, Tobias;

Rövid leírás:

The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox 2e continues where The Game Narrative Toolbox left off. While the Game Narrative Toolbox covered the basics of writing and narrative design for games, The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox will cover techniques and approaches for the intermediate and professional writer.

Hosszú leírás:

The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox 2^nd Edition is an updated version of The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox, continuing where The Game Narrative Toolbox left off. While the Game Narrative Toolbox covered the basics of writing and narrative design for games, The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox will cover techniques and approaches for the intermediate and professional writer. The book will cover topics such as how to adapt a novel to a game, how to construct transmedia worlds, and how to bring your content into the game. The second edition adds a chapter on the Unreal Engine, how to work with material for children, and how to overcome and work with communication biases. Each chapter is written by a professional with exceptional experience in the field of the chapter and ends with an exercise encouraging you to try out what you learned.

Key Features:

• Learn from industry experts how to tackle today’s challenges in storytelling for games


• A learn by example and exercise approach, which was praised in the Game Narrative Toolbox and the 1^st edition


• An in-depth view of advanced storytelling techniques and topics, and how to bring them into a game


• Expand your knowledge in game writing as you learn and try for yourself to design quests, write romances, build worlds, and implement them as you would as a writer or narrative designer in a game studio


• Improve your own stories by learning and trying techniques used by professionals of game writing

Tartalomjegyzék:

List of Contributors, Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: Building A Universe, Chapter 3: Get It into the Game: Writing and Implementation, Chapter 4: Cinematics and Dialogue, Chapter 5: Get This, Kill That, Talk with … Mission and Quest Design, Chapter 6: Planning Your Work, Chapter 7: Yes, Videogames Need Story Editors!, Chapter 8: Why Authentic Diversity, Consultants and Research Are Needed in Narrative Design, Chapter 9: Writing Romance and Sexuality in Games, Chapter 10: Writing for Nondigital Games (Board Games), Chapter 11: From Novel to Game and Back Again, Chapter 12: From Movie to Game (and Back Again?), Chapter 13: Working with Licensed Worlds and Content for Children, Chapter 14: Freelancing in Games: Narrative Mercenaries for Hire, Chapter 15: Working with Communication Biases, Chapter 16: Unreal Engine for Narrative Designers, Chapter 17: Conclusion, Chapter 18: Resources and Groups, Glossary