Introduction to Narrative Design for Video Games
What will we do in the course
A course by Víctor Ojuel , Narrative Designer and Video Game Writer
Joined May 2019
Joined May 2019
About the video: What will we do in the course
Overview
“In this course I will teach you two of the most important skills of a narrative designer: the cinematic script and interactive fiction. First I will help you write your first script for a short scene. This is something that is done very often both as a screening test for video game studios, as well as to create custscene or cinematic scenes within a game. For this we use the classic script format inherited from the cinema. Then, you will create a small game with a program called Twine. This type of game is called "interactive fiction", since it is basically a fiction piece, like a short story, in which the player can choose different options. Unlike in many games, we will not have to worry about art or advanced programming, since it will be all text. This way you will learn some notions of narrative design that can ”
In this video lesson Víctor Ojuel addresses the topic: What will we do in the course, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Narrative Design for Video Games. Learn to tell interactive stories and get started in the world of video games.
Partial transcription of the video
“What We Will Do in this Course? What will we do in this course? This will be a 100% practical course. By the end of it, we'll have two major things that aren't just great for practice. They're also the perfect foundation to start a portfolio as a narrative designer and video game writer. The first is a cinematic-style script, very similar to the scripts they use in the film industry, but with many video game applications. When making a video game, if we have a cinematic or cut-scene, the text we often use to describe this cut-scene is basically a movie-like script, so it's skill you want to...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Narrative Design for Video Games
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Category
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Areas
Game Design, Script, Video Games
Víctor Ojuel
A course by Víctor Ojuel
Víctor Ojuel has been working for years in what is perhaps the smallest niche within the multimillion-dollar video game industry: script writing and narrative design. His job is to tell stories, but in a different way than in all other kinds of media due to the interactive nature of video games.
With a huge list of projects divided between Steam and other distribution platforms, Victor is one of the most prolific video game writers in the world. Temtem, Mighty Poligon, Wildermyth, and DimensionDrive are some of the standout games on which he has collaborated.
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