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Join hosts Jon Ingold (inkle) and Sagar Beroshi (The Chinese Room) in conversation with authors from the Game Narrative Kaleidoscope, as they discuss all aspects of the craft of interactive writing and narrative design. Find out more about the Kaleidoscope at inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope
inkle hosts Game Narrative Kaleidoscope Podcast, a games show with 14 episodes published.
'I don't wanna put my lips on that:' An Ode to Adventure Game Protagonists We're joined by Eric Stirpe (Fortnite, Minecraft: Story Mode) about adventure game protagonists with minds of their own. What role does the playe
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Leave Nothing on the Table Veteran games writer Anna Megill (Control, Guild Wars 2) joins us to talk about coherent storytelling using every part of the game dev team. How do we, as writers, get other creatives invested
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The Bricks & The Gaps: What We Do & Don't Need When Building Worlds We talk with Total War and Star Wars: Jedi Survivor writer Pete Stewart about how to build worlds that leave the player with questions, even inside the
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The Tina Fey Hat Problem We talk to Ed Stern (Brink) about the power and problems of understatement in games. We discuss how to leave room for nuance, surprise and - best of all - deception, with examples drawn from stag
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Is It Relatable? Is It Sublime? We're joined by actor turned narrative designer Taage Storey (Choices) to discuss the relatable and the submlime in games writing. How do produce content that's entertaining, while satisfy
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The 'Grenade!' Paradox: Writing Better Barks We talk to Giles Armstrong (Assassin's Creed: Mirage, Helldivers II, and many other games) about the art and craft of writing barks that express character and world-building a
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Perfectionists Hate This One Simple Trick We talk with Jill Murray (Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Subnautica: Below Zero, Assassin’s Creed: Liberation) about how she gets things finished. If you write for your ideal audienc
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Cite Your Sources! Historian and game writer Holly Nielsen (Amberspire, Neurocracy) joins us to discuss ambiguous worldbuilding and the use of biased and unreliable narrators in historical sources. Should your world have
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A Smorgasbord Join us as narrative expert Ian Thomas from The Chinese Room expands the boundaries of story design. What can computer RPGs learn from a live-action roleplaying game set in the world of The Three Musketeers
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Microbranching: Big Reactivity with Small Effort We're joined by Kate Gray (Moonstone Island, Hello Kitty Island Adventure) who tells us about microbranching in dialogue. Small decisions without long-term impacts can fre
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Swiss Cheese and Soda Cans: Writing for Proc-Gen Systems Novelist and narrative designer Stark Holborn joins us to talk about the procedural generation systems of Shadows of Doubt. How do you ensure a generated world has
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Call Me by Your Name Ex-Naughty Dog narrative designer Josh Scherr joins us to discuss the best ways to employ reactive dialogue: in action sequences, puzzle sequences, and the quieter moments in between, with first-hand
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How to Love the Player Who Hates You - Creating after (or during) Gamergate We're joined by Mary Kenney, narrative director and senior writer (Marvel: Wolverine, Spiderman: Miles Morales), to talk about recovering from o
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The Keyboard Is Not an Omnitool We’re writers. We can solve every problem with a stroke of a pen - can’t we? In this episode, the Chinese Room's Sagar Beroshi talks about how to know when less is more. For more info the
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Flawless Victory (and how to avoid it) Black Flag’s lead writer, Darby McDevitt, joins us to discuss character arcs in linear action adventure games, and how the gameplay isn’t always the best driver of the drama. For mo
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Welcome to the Kaleidoscope! The Game Narrative Kaleiodscope podcast is a weekly show hosted by Jon Ingold (inkle) and Sagar Beroshi (The Chinese Room). Our aim to is interview every author in the Game Narrative Kaleidos
Show notesWelcome to the Kaleidoscope! The Game Narrative Kaleiodscope podcast is a weekly show hosted by Jon Ingold (inkle) and Sagar Beroshi (The Chinese Room). Our aim to is interview every author in the Game Narrative Kaleidos
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