Introduction to Video Game Design

Overview

“The narrative script of a video game is something important, although sometimes it can be expensive. Usually, this is assumed by video game writers, but if we don't have one of them, we will have to do the script ourselves. An intelligent decision is usually to create silent characters; that the story is counting on visual resources. Anyway, our game may require dialogues, explanatory texts, expanding manuscripts or an external narrative.”

In this video lesson Arturo Monedero Alvaro addresses the topic: Dialogues / Location, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Video Game Design. Learn how to create a game design document, the first step to making your video game ideas come true.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson. we'll explore how to craft an effective text document. enabling both localizers and scriptwriters to collaborate seamlessly. This approach simplifies the process of translating our game into various languages. Let's examine the document closely. The narrative script of a video game is quite important. sometimes. creating extensive dialogue can be quite costly. Usually. this task falls to video game writers. but if we don't have one on our team. you'll need to handle it yourself. A wise approach is often to limit the amount of text in our game to keep costs down. Consider mak...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Video Game Design

• Level: Beginner
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• 5476 students
• 5 units
• 21 lessons (2h 37m)
• 14 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation, Web & App Design

• Areas

  Game Design, Video Games