Subtitles Talk (2022)

Links from our GCAP 2022 and Games UX Summit 2022 talks on subtitles.

First, we highly recommend Ian Hamilton’s GDC talk:

We’d also recommend the Game Maker’s Toolkit video on Making Games Better for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing:

Beyond this, here’s some great links on the topic:

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!

🎬 Let’s Build a Symbolic Analyser And Automatically Find Bugs

Let’s Build a Symbolic Analyser And Automatically Find Bugs from PyCon Australia 2019, in Sydney.

🎬 Building, designing, teaching and training simulation environments for Machine Learning

Building, designing, teaching and training simulation environments for Machine Learning from PyCon Australia 2019, in Sydney.

🎬 Science-fictional User Interfaces

Science-fictional User Interfaces from the O’Reilly Strata Data Conference 2019, in London.

🎬 Game engines and ML

Game engines and machine learning from the O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference 2019, in New York City.

🎬 On-device Style Transfer

On-device Neural Style Transfer from the Reinforce AI Conference, in Budapest.

🎬 Entity Component Systems

Entity Component Systems (ECS) and You: They’re Not Just For Game Developers from the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference 2019, in New York City. We’re scheduled to give an updated version of this talk at the Software Architecture Conference 2020, also in New York City.

⚠️ The slides from the slightly newer version of this talk (Software Architecture Conference 2020 in New York City) are now available!