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Na quinta-feira que vem, 26 de junho, vai rolar o II ENCONTRO ONLINE da COMUNIDADE DE DESIGNERS DE NARRATIVA E ESCRITORES DE JOGOS.

Pra participar, é só se inscrever neste link. Nos vemos lá!

https://bit.ly/encontro-gamewriters-br

#NarrativeDesign #GameWriting #Roteiro #IndieDev

II ENCONTRO ONLINE DA COMUNIDADE DE DESIGNERS DE NARRATIVA E ESCRITORES DE JOGOS. 26 de junho, às 20h30. Evento aberto a todos. Link para www.designdenarrativa.com.br

Saiu o VOD dos painéis realizados na gamescom latam 2025! Eis aí o registro oficial de "Como Ter Referências Pro Seu Jogo Não Ser Uma Salada De Mesmice", da qual participei com Tiago Rech e Flavia Gomes.

Foi minha primeira presença pública em um palco falando do tema que mais amo e acompanhado de profissionais na mais plena sintonia.

#NarrativeDesign #GameWriting #Roteiro #GameDev #IndieDev #gamescomlatam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s23QWGb9VxE&t=12660s

A reminder that my Amazon author page can be found here:

https://www.amazon.com/author/steveince

#books #gamewriting #childrensbooks #urbanfantasy #novels #childrensillustration #illustration #fiction #nonfiction

The Yooka-Replaylee demo is out! Please check it out. I worked on this game as a writer and narrative designer.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3730150/YookaReplaylee_Demo/

I wrote everything from cut scenes to flavour text and in-game dialogue. As well as lots of work on narrative flow!

I'm now looking for my next role ( and freelance work!)

#narrativedesign #gamedev #indiedev #writing #gamewriting

🕹️ Indie devs—what if your story engine could evolve like your gameplay engine?

Author AI helps you build branching narratives that stay coherent, modular, and deeply adaptive—no matter how complex your world becomes.

Designed for writers, built for devs.

#IndieDev #GameDev #NarrativeDesign #StoryDriven #GameWriting #AIForCreators #DevTools

Been working on this dialog tree for almost two weeks now and I have to finish it before it finishes my sanity 😅
#gamedev #gamewriting

Photo of my Surface Tablet next to a latte. Reflected is my distraught face that blends into the displayed flowchart on screen.

🎮📚 Oh look, The Guardian discovers that some #novelists are adding joystick-scribbling to their CVs and game writers are playing with chapters. 🙄 Because, clearly, swapping between writing "Game Over" and "The End" is a groundbreaking career move. 😂
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/apr/30/novelists-video-game-writers #gaming #gamewriting #careerhumor #joystickwriting #HackerNews #ngated

Some novelists are becoming video game writers – and vice-versa

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/apr/30/novelists-video-game-writers

#HackerNews #novelists #video #games #storytelling #gamewriting #crossmedia #creativity

For those who caught my interview with @alexmakesstuffup.bsky.social last week: Crafty Game Writing is out now! Practical tips for stronger narratives. Learn about this book and dozens of others in this week’s newsletter! #GameWriting #NarrativeDesign #GameDev #IndieDev #Booksky #Gaming #VideoGame

The Video Game Library Newslet...

I'm having so much fun writing these tricks ngl

#Gamedev #Indiedev #Soulblaze #GameWriting

Vitality Fatality
Being not dead is a good baseline for dealing damage, being at full health is even better

Is That Food?!
No mercy for anyone who has a delicious snack and won't share

Headlock
Neither of you will be able to move but at least you're not the one in someone else's arm pit

Drain
Rich peoples' favorite pastime activity

Writer, narrative director, author, screenwriter - an exclusive chat with @alexmakesstuffup.bsky.social on game narrative, dirty storytelling, and his new book Crafty Game Writing! Read now: buff.ly/q7Myjre #GameWriting #GameDev #VideoGames #WeHappyFew #Contrast #Biomorph #SouthOfMidnight

In my upcoming comedy text adventure, there's also a shelf of useless books. Here are some examples 😅

#gamedev #gamewriting

Yet another mundane piece of literature: Descentris. Tractatus de Descensu in Abyssum according to the preface it deals with "mysteries of the universe, God, and the nature of reality" but ultimately it's about maintaining
windows.

How about this amateurish bunch of words: Color Depth. A collection of the Kingdom's Finest Watercolors. This is the cheap paperback edition where all Ilustrations are monochrome reproductions.

Get #darkfantasy #turnbased #strategy #game "Shields of Loyalty" with a 30 % #discount on #Steam! #earlyaccess #indiedev #indie #gamewriting (Disclaimer: Was involved in writing for this project once) store.steampowered.com/app/1318240/...

Save 30% on Shields of Loyalty...

NEW INTRODUCTION! After 3 years, some of my interests pivoted and some are just not on fedi.

I'm a one man company that mostly does 2D computer animation but I also do interactive writing and co-creating the first ever video game completely about larp!

🎨 #2danimation #animation #madeWithSpine #gameart #gamewriting #gamedev #madewithconstruct #inkle

🚀 #space #arduino #opensource #ecology #simpit #spacesim

🎲 #ttrpg #larp #boardgames #gaslands

📺📙 #terrypratchett #discworld

#dogsOfMastodon

724. CRAFTY GAME WRITING: SECRETS OF GREAT VIDEOGAME NARRATIVE 👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/crafty-... #GameWriting #NarrativeDesign @alexmakesstuffup.bsky.social #Booksky #Gaming #VideoGames #Storytelling

Cover of Crafty Game Writing by Alex Epstein features a red background with an illustration of a computer screen displaying the text “Secrets of Great Videogame Narrative” and a “New Game” button. Below the screen, two hands type on a keyboard, emphasizing the book's focus on writing and storytelling for video games.

Every writer dreams of creating their own game world and telling their own stories. But creating a new game from scratch is different from working on an established franchise. If you’re writing for Star Wars or Assassin’s Creed or the Marvel Universe, the groundwork has already been laid for you. But what if you are the person who has to lay that groundwork? Where do you start? How do you decide which, among the endless story options, is the right one? How do you create a story that plays nice with the gameplay and pulls the player in?

Alex Epstein, an experienced narrative director who has worked on half a dozen new IPs, takes you step-by-step through the process of creating compelling new worlds and characters that feel real.

Of course, many challenges are the same, whether you’re creating your own game or working within a franchise. How do you make players think they have maximum freedom when they absolutely do not? What makes players inhabit a game story, not just skip past it? How can “dirty narrative” (a term Epstein coined) increase player engagement?

Packed with practical tips, Crafty Game Writing: Secrets of Great Videogame Narrative will help you

701. VIDEO GAME WRITING: FROM MACRO TO MICRO 👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/video-g... #VideoGame #Gaming #Booksky #GameWriting #GameDev #VideoGameWriting @writegameread.bsky.social

Cover of Video Game Writing: From Macro to Micro (Second Edition) by Maurice Suckling and Marek Walton. The top half features bold white and gold text on a black background, while the lower half shows a futuristic, metallic workstation with a monitor, keyboard, gaming consoles, and controllers, symbolizing a high-tech game development environment.

This insightful, book explores the challenging and evolving world of the games writer.

Part I provides a fascinating overview of the history of games writing following its humble roots in the '60s to today’s triple-A titles.

Part II asks and answers the key question: what does a games writer do and how do they do it? Especially useful reading for novice game writers, its chapters cover a broad range of topics including contracts, NDAs, creative collaboration, narrative design, editing, adaptations, and environmental storytelling.

Part III, of particular value for more advanced students of writing, addresses deeper theoretical questions increasingly relevant in today’s games titles, including: "Why have story at all? What is plot and how does it work? How best can a writer use agency?"

Finally, Part IV presents readers with hard-earned nuggets of wisdom from today’s game writers working in the US, Europe, and Japan.

Packed with practical samples, case studies, and exercises, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the world of games writing.

*makes a plan*
*starts writing dialogue*

me: ok, this is going to a whole different direction already!

*adjusts plan*
*rince and repeat*

#gamedev #gamewriting #writing

I gave #YouTube a proper go last year, but I'm not passionate enough about it to give up game development for it. The amount of content needed to break through the algorithm is unsustainable for a one man operation.

https://www.youtube.com/@NewToNarrative

#gamewriting #narrativedesign #indiedev #solodev

Escribir para un videojuego es como ser guionista, director y dios caprichoso al mismo tiempo. Creas personajes, les das un mundo… y luego decides si les das esperanza o los sumerges en el caos. Es divertido, lo juro.

#GameWriting #IndieDev

EDIT: I BELIEVE MY GOAL HAS BEEN MET THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH

(im waiting for my bank/etc. to confirm and that might take a couple of days, but i'd appreciate it if you focused on other peoples' needs first!)

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth
Support black people's mutual aids every day but especially this month!

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hire me for remote work (i can write, edit, and do customer service/advocacy/accessibility work)!

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