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Writing a Game Script Is Not a Project Step

Let’s talk about writing for — well, anything really, but in this case for games.

5 min readApr 19, 2024

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What does a Narrative Department do?

“You write the story, right?”

5 min readJan 17, 2024

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What does a Narrative Department do?

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Communicating Characters

Or: “How do you get the rest of your team to understand the cool character you made up?”

6 min readJun 14, 2023

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Job Functions in Game Narrative

Or: What does that pesky Narrative Designer title actually mean?

3 min readJun 30, 2022

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Moment-based Design

Memorable moments and the war stories they create

8 min readDec 20, 2016

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Moment-based Design

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Writing for Games: What’s it like?

I had a few questions sent to me via a colleague — from their friend who is presumably looking to move into narrative design or writing…

8 min readJan 13, 2024

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An Ink/Javascript Storylet Testbed

TL;DR — a simple Storylet implementation for Ink in Javascript. You can find the code here.

5 min readDec 29, 2023

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Teamwork: Authoring With Intent

Show your working, for your own sake!

5 min readSep 30, 2023

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Teamwork: Authoring With Intent

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Reading List: Hacking the Player Experience

A handful of less usual inspirations to read…

2 min readSep 23, 2023

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Reading List: Hacking the Player Experience

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A Dialogue Pipeline

Keeping your lines in line…

16 min readJul 11, 2023

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Ian Thomas

Ian Thomas

Ian is narrative director, coder, and writer of video games, films, larp, books, and VR/AR experiences. He has worked on well over 100 titles.

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