This week my main question was focused on Plot: how does problems create challenges for the character? How does character respond to problems, and what does the character's strategies for overcoming challenges tell us about their character? How does the character develop: how does the character adapt their strategies or evolve their strategies?
Questions:
How to embed plot into world, as encounters (narrative architecture).
How to show character development as choices and actions character performs to deal with problems. How does interactivity provide choices in the development?
How to show character development as character states that change how the character looks or how character is animated.
First step: Brainstorm – Game elements and mechanics, Story elements
2. Map a flowchart of narrative events
3. Map a flowchart of possible character developments (parallel to narrative beats/events)
– consider different options for character choices, actions
4. Map out plot as an interest curve to consider structure
By Louis Fourie
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Published On: 31/03/2022
