
43: A Window Into Narrative Systems with Tom Francis
Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games
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How to Write a Story in a Beta Game
I don't think a lot of people are going to see this but we played the I played the beta and you can't not tell a story like you. It's kind of fun about writing that is that all this work I've done on who these characters are and the narrative they're gonna tell in their backstories and stuff was amazing. The actual story of the game is not in this beta but it does inform the way they talk to each other because I know what their relationship is like so that fed into how they argue about the control scheme. We have thrown away before there's a version of gunpoint with placeholder dialogue as well that talks that breaks the fourth wall.
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