Advanced Storytelling Course
Course Teacher: Kim MacAskill
Run by Into Games
I had the amazing opportunity to participate in this short course packed with different tasks and useful information. I learned and built upon a variety of skills including:
Writing a Character Bio
Writing a Trigger List
Creating a Dialogue System
Writing a Cutscene Script
Writing a Location Bio
Task 1 - Character Bio
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Task 2 & 3 - Trigger List & Dialogue System
Task 4 - Cutscene Script
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BRIEF
Write a one page document describing a building or area that fits in the world of your character.
Questions it should answer:
What is the area used for?
Who lives there/doesn’t live there?
What is a player likely to find that is of benefit and of detriment?
BRIEF
Write a character bio with an inciting incident, wants vs needs, themes, a voice print sample and a conversation with an NPC.
Questions to answer:
Who was your character before the incident?
What was the incident?
What has the incident pushed them to achieve?
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BRIEF
Player character wakes up in a room with no idea how they got there. There is at least one other character in the room, and they are not friends. Yet they must use their strengths and weaknesses to escape this strange place.
BRIEF
Player character is being attacked by three waves of enemies and each wave increases with difficulty. These enemies are most vulnerable from behind where one of the player character’s weapons is effective, but their second weapon won’t cause any damage. If the player character is wounded, they have thirty seconds to find and use a healing item or they die. Healing items appear as additional loot when defeating an enemy.
Task 5 - Location Bio
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