‘I have a different kind of brain’—a script-centric approach to interactive narratives in games

Abstract

To cite this article: Henrik Engström (2019) 'I have a different kind of brain'-a scriptcentric approach to interactive narratives in games, Digital Creativity, 30:1, 1-22, ABSTRACTIn a computer game narrative, a user influences the ordering of events. To model this behaviour, game designers and writers need to use some kind of programming primitives. A computer game script will hence differ from, for instance, a movie screenplay in that traditional dialogue text is complemented with some textual or visual logic formalism. Not all groups involved in production of a game have a programming background and may therefore be unable to easily comprehend such formalisms. This paper presents a novel approach to game dialogue writing where traces from playthroughs are used as the core of the script. Alternative branches are identified and presented in relation to the main trace. The approach has been implemented in a tool that has been used successfully by three professional writers in mobile game production. The results indicate that this is a promising approach to enable non-programmers to work with interactive narratives.

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