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18.26: Broadening Your Writing Wheelhouse: Video Game Dialogue, RPG Adventures, & More

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How to Make Your Audience Think They Have a Choice

When writing games, I made it look like people had a choice and then in some cases there were two possible outcomes. There's nothing more satisfying than when they choose to go to the building that you wanted them to go to. And one thing that I think game writing teaches you is how to try to keep people's attention in the direction that you kind of want it to go.

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