It's our last episode of the year! Emily Grace Buck (narrative designer at Telltale Games where she worked on The Walking Dead: Michonne and Batman - The Telltale Series, and previously designed and wrote educational games at Kognito) and Julie Marchiori (level designer, mission designer, and current Assistant Narrative Director at Ubisoft Montreal, and has worked on such games as the Army of Two franchise, Far Cry 3, Assassin's Creed 3, and Assassin's Creed Unity) drop in to talk about using agency to empower players to build their own stories, gameplay verbs, the narrative potential of systems, environmental storytelling, level design, the research phase, design processes, subtext in games, the importance of downtime with your characters and why it's difficult for studios, minority content, examining the choices of players, and a heck of a lot more!
Our Guests on the Internet
Emily's Twitter and Tumblr.
Julie's Blog about going from gamer geek to gamer geek mom, and her other Blog where she talks about things like her beef with gendered games.
Stuff We Talked About
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Fallout 3
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
Assassin's Creed: Unity
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
Batman - The Telltale Series
Gears of War 4
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Until Dawn
Life is Strange
World of Warcraft
Mystic Messenger
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