On a winding road through the Pennines, halfway between Sheffield and Manchester, there’s a tavern rather originally called the Halfway Inn. In the face of such razor wit, the locals have taken to calling it the Disappointed Virgin.
The first team that Darren introduced me to, Pat Ryan and Ciarán O’Brien, were working on a dungeon crawler in Twine and said they’d need some content when they were done coding it. It was about a warrior in search of a glorious death, they said. Naturally, I was intrigued. So after a quick chat with my teammates, they set back to coding combat and dungeon loops and I sat down to come up with something to write.
In honor of spending the next few days at PAX Dev and PAX Prime, I thought I’d go on a little rant on that which shapes everything I think about and everything I do: narrative. The transcript of my presentation, “The Future of Video Game Narrative: Player, Agency, And Negative Space Storytelling,” can be read…