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12.21: Narrative Bumper Pool, with Bill Fawcett and Carrie Patel

Writing Excuses

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Importance of Compelling Choices and Rewarding Players

The importance of providing characters with compelling reasons for their choices, and the use of incentives to guide them along different paths in a story. Comparison of old directed games to open-ended games and the rewards for player choices.

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