Robert Denton Bryant, Keith Giglio

Slay the Dragon (eBook, ePUB)

Writing Great Video Games

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Writing for the multibillion-dollar video-game industry is unlike writing for any other medium. Slay the Dragon will help you understand the challenges and offer creative solutions to writing for a medium where the audience not only demands a great story, but to be a driving force within it. Aimed at traditional writers who want to learn interactive narrative as well as game creators who want to tell better, more emotionally involving stories, the book is written by two creative veterans of both Hollywood and "Nerdyhood." Through lively discussions and self-paced-exercises, Bryant and Giglio step you such topics as: the "no-act" structure of video games; writing great game characters; making gameplay emotionally meaningful; and bringing your game world alive.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Michael Wiese Productions
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781615932405
• Artikelnr.: 49853134

Autorenporträt

Robert Denton Bryant has worked in Hollywood in both marketing and production, and in video games as both a publisher and a developer. He has been executive producer on dozens of games on platforms ranging from CD-ROMs to the iPad, including the bestselling World Championship Poker and Pinball Hall of Fame console game franchises. He is the coauthor (with Charles P. Schultz) of Game Testing All In One. He has lectured in the U.S. and Europe on game writing, and currently teaches at The University of California, Los Angeles and at Woodbury University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb, Director of Programming, Xbox Live Chapter 00
Loading Chapter 01
What's in a Game? Chapter 02
Do Games Need Stories? Chapter 03
Aristotle vs. Mario: The Challenge of Video
Game Writing Chapter 04
How to Slay the Dragon: The No
Act
Fits
All Structure of Video Games Chapter 05
The Player / Protagonist: Writing a Great Game Character Chapter 06
Balancing Story & Gameplay Chapter 07
The Hero of a Thousand Levels: Quests, Missions, Levels, and Campaigns Chapter 08
World Building: The Narrative
Design Toolbox Chapter 09
We Can't All Be Batman: Crafting MMOs and Virtual Worlds Chapter 10
The Future of Gaming Is Mario & Aristotle & You Bibliography Index