Category: Storytelling

Immortality is both a masterwork and a frustrating example of the limitations of interactive storytelling. Spoilers within.

First impressions of Until Dawn and the current state of story-heavy games

My thoughts on Gone Home and what it reveals about storytelling in video games

Telltale’s The Walking Dead series is some of the best work the studio’s ever done, and it’s actually right on the verge of establishing an entirely new genre of video game. Spoilers on the first two episodes.

More on using narrative as a game mechanic. Games have borrowed liberally from Tolkien over the years, but I’ve never seen a game incorporate one of his coolest ideas.

Laying the foundation for more talk about narrative as a game mechanic, but this time with semi-concrete examples. Plus huge spoilers for Portal 2!

Narrative can too be a game mechanic, as long as you familiarize yourself with how narratives work, and you don’t have an overly strict definition of “game.”

Repressed memories dredged up by Skyrim, and reconsidering some assumptions about storytelling in videogames

Another article for Gamasutra about videogame storytelling, more or less.

I wrote an article about horror movies, videogames, and how to get players to give a damn about your story.