Dramatic Storytelling and Narrative Design: A Writer’s Guide to Video Games and Transmedia

Dramatic Storytelling and Narrative Design

Computers & Technology

Berger, Ross

Games & Strategy Guides

CRC-Press

This book provides an industry professional's first-hand perspective on narrative design's practical usage, day-to-day roles and responsibilities, and keys to breaking in and succeeding. The book delves into the foundations of compelling storytelling through structural analysis and character archetype breakdowns.The understanding of game narrative is widened to include examples from other media. The author breaks down the structure of popular games and show how the structural elements are applied in practice. In addition to discussing industry trends, the author illustrates how the leveraging of transmedia can make a video game franchise endure over time. This updated new edition contains brand new chapters on Conflict and The Future of Interactive Storytelling, as well as deepened coverage on Character and World and Roles and Responsibilities. The author adds new discussion to the Analysis of Narrative in Contemporary Games through an examination of the HBO television adaption of The Last of Us.This book will be of great interest to all those interested in the craft of storytelling, narrative design, and game writing.

Dramatic Storytelling & Narrative Design: A Writer’s Guide to Video Games and Transmedia

This book provides an industry professional’s firsthand POV into narrative design’s practical usage, day-to-day roles and responsibilities, and keys to breaking in and succeeding. The book will also delve into the foundations of compelling storytelling through structural analysis and character archetype breakdowns. The author widens the understanding of game narrative to include examples from other media. He will also break the structure down of two popular games and show how the structural elements are applied in practice. In addition to discussing industry trends (including Fortnite, Twitch, and Netflix’s interactive TV shows), the author illustrates how the leveraging of transmedia can make a video game franchise enduring over time. Because media appetites are radically changing, designing a story experience across various media outlets is not only preferable to meet the high demands of millennial and GenZ consumers; it’s necessary as well. Key Features: <ul>
<li>Practical how-to’s to meet the ever-increasing studio demands for a narrative designer</li> <li>Critical analysis of the narrative of two best-selling games </li> <li>Samples of a story structure diagram, character polling, transmedia release timeline, and a branching conversation tree</li> <li>Deep breakdowns and definitions of story beats and dramatic devices</li> <li>Pro-tips on better documentation and overall job preparedness</li> </ul>

This 7th annual collection of contest-winning stories and poems features Grand Prize winner Heather Debling and merit winners Don Carter (humor), Monic Ductan (love), Christianna Soumakis (passion), Tristan Marajh (depth), and Ross Berger (bonus) plus 28 more voices the world needs to hear and stories that need to be told. Additional contributors: Alysa Levi-D’Ancona, Mary Reed, Nina Marceny, Jane Yi, John Briscoe, Dustin Grinnell, Lynette Benton, H.N. Wood, Elaine Zimmerman, Hillary Flynn, Jill Cunningham, Lynne Ruelaine Stokes, Eileen Zhang, K. Di Prima, A. M. Riddle, Carrie Vestal Gilman, Richard Levine, Jimi Johnson, Renée Ozburn, Bernard Horn, Liz Kelner Pozen, Janet Gotkin, Brook van der Linde, Shawn Soward Bell, Ruth Mota, Hal Ackerman, Marjorie Saiser, Joseph J. Ridgway

Stories That Need to Be Told 2021

Literature & Fiction

Carter, Don

Debling, Heather

Ductan, Monic

Soumakis, Christianna

Marajh, Tristan

VARIOUS

Literary

TulipTree Publishing, LLC

Stories That Need to Be Told 2024

Rosen, Mike

Peterson, Cass

Watts, Patrick

Garrard, Laura E.

Hartley, Terry

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