by Will Hindmarch | Feb 7, 2008 | Books, Horror, RPGs, Story
Whether you already have First Person and Second Person or not (getting them eventually should be a foregone conclusion), Electronic Book Review’s collection of articles from the books is a must-read trove of cunning essays. In addition to those, my essay from...
by Will Hindmarch | Jan 30, 2008 | Board Games, Musing, RPGs, Story, Will's Thesis
Part of the point of my still-evolving thesis (first mentioned in my early post, “On Playwriting, On Gameplay”) is to develop a new vocabulary for branching or unfolding narratives — something loose enough to survive spit-balling and rough use, but rigid...
by Jeff Tidball | Jan 21, 2008 | Musing, Story
This post about third acts continues a discussion of dramatic structure in games. The introductory post in this series is called I, II, III, the post about first acts is First Act, Ask Questions Later, and the post about second acts is Too. There’s a thing...
by Jeff Tidball | Jan 14, 2008 | Board Games, card games, Musing, Story
This post about second acts continues a discussion of dramatic structure in games. The introductory post in this series is called I, II, III, and the post about first acts is First Act, Ask Questions Later. What do we know about second acts? They’re the meat of...
by Will Hindmarch | Jan 10, 2008 | Accessories, Musing, Props, RPGs, Story
It started as a simple fantasy-RPG play experiment: Could I mash-up a bunch of genre references, a handful of game accessories, an undercooked experimental game mechanic, and a few weekday hours into some kind of crazy, bawdy crime story? It turned into a...
by Jeff Tidball | Jan 9, 2008 | Board Games, card games, Musing, Story
This post about first acts continues a discussion of dramatic structure in games. The introductory post in this series is called I, II, III. In my last post, I targeted my discussion of division into acts pretty specifically to the orbit of acts around a dramatic...
