Narrative Design for Indies: Getting Started

You want to create a video game? Great! You want to tell a story? Fantastic! You want to create a video game that tells a story? What? Are you insane?! Im joking kind of. You dont have to be insane to tell a good story through your Indie video game but you do have to be out of your mind. What I mean is you have to empty your brain of a whole bunch of stuff that Hollywood and Triple-As have told you about games and stories and fill it up with stuff thats actually going to work on your teeny tiny budget. Three Act structure? Thats like trying to shove a giant triangle through a tiny circle. Heros Journey? Yup thatll take you nowhere fast. Authorial Authority. Now youre just winding me up! Whether youre an Indie developer or a narrative designer wanting to work in the Indie space Narrative Design for Indies: Getting Started will take you through some tried and true techniques of Indie video game storytelling. Techniques that have been developed to blow minds rather than budgets.