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Topic: Is a narrative story important in a game? (Read 624 times)

Shadow Kirby

#21 February 05, 2010, 12:55:06 am
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Quote from: The One on February 04, 2010, 05:37:41 pm
Mm yeah this is pretty much the conclusion I came to as well. I guess if you buy Mario you're not expecting an epic story, and if you buy Final Fantasy you're not expecting to be dropped somewhere and told "Go save the princess".

The thing is my teacher gametheory asked me to find out other people's opinions on the subject, so I just started a topic here.

Out of curiosity, what's your teacher's background.
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Calvin

#22 February 05, 2010, 11:28:58 am
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Show, don't tell. The golden rule of storytelling.

I find that good character building is often the key factor towards moving the plot forward succesfully in RM-type games.
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The One

#23 February 05, 2010, 12:08:15 pm
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Quote from: Shadow Kirby on February 05, 2010, 12:55:06 am
Out of curiosity, what's your teacher's background.

Also gamedesign, he said his role in designing games is also mainly writing story and dialogue, which is why we were on this subject in the first place.
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SW

#24 February 05, 2010, 02:58:50 pm
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Quote from: Shadow Kirby on February 03, 2010, 10:49:34 pm
There's a bunch but I'll start by pimping my University a bit :fogetcool:
Dominic Arsenault's Master's Thesis (and a bunch of other amazing thesis on that website)


Tried this link, but I can't seem to open the PDF version of this guy's work (it doesn't load, is it a huge file?). Hopefully it's just a case of bad connection and not some virus..?
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SegNin

#25 February 05, 2010, 03:22:13 pm
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Quote from: SW on February 05, 2010, 02:58:50 pm
Tried this link, but I can't seem to open the PDF version of this guy's work (it doesn't load, is it a huge file?). Hopefully it's just a case of bad connection and not some virus..?
It opens in Foxit Reader, which is a freeware PDF viewer:
http://download.cnet.com/Foxit-Reader/3000-10743_4-10313206.html?part=dl-116442&subj=dl&tag=button

And I scanned the PDF with Avira and MalwareBytes; it's not a virus.
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