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Video Game Storytelling: How to Write Engaging Stories & Captivate Your Audience
Coming up with a story is a deceptively complex challenge. You’re developing a game and your game needs a story. Ok, you’ll just go ahead and whip up a story then! Sounds easy, right? If only the task was that simple… Creating a story people will enjoy is no small feat, but we’ve put together this little three-section guide to make it easier for you. You won’t come away from this guide with a fleshed-out story, but you’ll have plenty of solid advice to keep in mind while you do your writing. Characters are extremely important. You can have one character or you can have twenty characters–the number doesn’t matter, but you shouldn’t make the decision arbitrarily. Characters need to advance the plot in some way. They need to bring something to the table...
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Character Development
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Video Game Design 101: Tips & Tricks from a Pro Illustrator
Character creation is your chance to let your imagination run wild. If you already have ideas, it’s easy to hit the ground running. If you don’t have ideas….well…. That can be a different story. We’ve put together a brief beginner’s guide to tutorials that will help you create characters. Some offer ideas for finding inspiration, others offer sound advice for developing technique or workflow. We recently had an opportunity to sit down with a freelance illustrator who’s working on a hush-hush indie game right now. Now, she doesn’t have a full-blown tutorial for us, but she does have some tips and “guiding questions” she uses to create and inform her own characters...
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Little Nightmares Objectives
This Little Nightmares walkthrough and guide covers all five areas of the game, the Secrets of the Maw DLC, as well as the collectibles you can pick up along the way. In addition to the detailed Little Nightmares written walkthrough linked below, we’ve also added a video walkthrough and Little Nightmares PC requirements at the bottom of this guide. While Little Nightmares is a fairly simple game in the same vein as Limbo and Inside (although made by a different developer), there’s still a decent amount of strategy that goes into the title. Take a look at these tips below to help get you started as you dig into our Little Nightmares guide...
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VR.EDU Haptic Controller Functions
VR.EDU will change the way students learn and engage in their educational development by taking the learning material from their textbooks and sending them right to it for a fully immersive and interactive experience they will never forget. Students will use special hand controllers to interact with the 3D space. The controllers will sit on the back of each hand and will thread across each of their fingers, eliminating the risk of thrown controllers and allowing for ultimate sensitivity. The level of sensitivity these controllers provides allows students to reach an unprecedented level of interaction with the 3D space. For example, they could use simple grabbing motions to climb with their hands...
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