Navigating Social Media and Podcast Updates

The speakers reflect on their experiences with social media, expressing discontent with platforms like Twitter and Blue Sky. They also discuss alternative contact methods, plans for a game writing class, and updates on their podcast's strategy amid various challenges.

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It’s been an embarrassingly long time but we are BACK! Again!!! And this time we’ve brought returning guests Adam Dolin and Jolie Menzel to discuss breaking in, how they define narrative design, the differences between creative directors who come from narrative versus other displiclines, the three c’s, can game writers exist without knowing narrative design, favorite narrative tools, what makes a good opening to a game, tutorials, letting players have choices where the results lead to them missing lots of content, bad habits they’ve noticed in younger writers/narrative designers, the future of the industry, pieces of media they go back to get reinvigorate/inspired, the themes they’re always writing into their stories, stuff they’re always editing out of their writing, how to write good dialogue, and maybe one or two other things. It’s great!

Our Guests on the Internet

Jolie's Linkedin. Adam's Linkedin and BlueSky, and his ELVTR class starts in April!

Stuff We Discussed

Larian Cinematics: A Top-Down Look at Our Bottom-Up Approach in 'Baldur's Gate 3'

Jolie's 3C's of Game Design Presentation

Twine

Visual Studio Code

Highland 2 (FYI looks like a Highland 3 launch is imminent)

Ink

YarnSpinner

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Pentiment