Writing, Workflow, and Game Design — NZGDC22

Here’s the links from our panel at NZGDC 2022! We’ll post the video here when it’s available.

• Tracery — A grammar based text generator.
• Blabbeur — A grammar based text generator inspired by Tracery but designed to be embedded into Unity.
• Inform — An interactive fiction programming language, great for making those “HEAD NORTH” style IF games.
• Ink User Guide — A literal book written by the Inkle team, good stuff.
• Yarn Spinner VS Code Extension — Provides full integration of Yarn language and your C# Unity project into VS Code.
• Fungus — A narrative all-in-one game tool for Unity. Maybe unmaintained?
• Unreal Conversation System
• Narrascope 2022 Conference — A narrative games focussed conference, talks covering the entire gamut of this topic.
• Hannah Nicklin’s Book — A book on all aspects of game writing by one of the best games writers in the business.
• Narrative Instruments — The paper which coined and defined the term narrative instruments.

We also delivered a panel at NZGDC 2021 called “What’s the story with narrative game development?”

Jon also gave a GDC talk on turning your writers into programmers by grey boxing narratives.

You can also find all of us on Twitter!

• Paris – @parisba
• Jon – @desplesda
• Tim – @the_mcjones
• Ryan – @ryanqnorth
• Chride – @classheikki
• Leena – @leenavand
• Scott – @bombsfall

And of course @YarnSpinnerTool!