Getting Started with Storytelling and Game Narrative

Mike Ballard
The Shedtronic Workshop
13 min readFeb 23, 2022

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Game Narrative and storytelling through mobile device and atmospheric lighting
Photo by Branden Skeli on Unsplash

This is the first of a series of articles in which I am going to be looking at different techniques of developing narrative for games. In this first article, I am going to explore techniques for writing stories that can become the building blocks for game narratives and look at ways to prepare them for working with non-linear interactive narrative tools or storytelling engines like Twine, RenPy or…

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