Sketchnote for Rules & Tutorials

Sketchnote: Writing Precise Rules

Response to Kobold’s “Writing Precise Rules”

By far my biggest takeaway from this week’s reading was the importance of not overcomplicating rules. This applies to the writing as well as the rules themselves. Encapsulated in this are several ideas:

• Use consistent language…

Response to Rules & Tutorials

This was a fascinating video on interactive fiction and tips & tricks for working on an IF. The speaker talked about his choices when developing Oxenfree, an interactive fiction on a teenage girl grappling with different emotional challenges while in an adventure after a…

Harnessing Fun Through Arbitrary Requirements

Games are a strange construction. Harnessing fun through arbitrary requirements. Rules. I really like Christina’s example of the absurdity golf, getting a ball into a hole by wacking it with metal sticks. “Writing Precise Rules” by Mike Selinker is…

Rules & Tutorial Response: IF

One of the hardest things I have found when it comes to creating IF is making the game be both a story and an interactive game. Often times, I find one side prevailing over the other. In the talk “Building Game Mechanics to Elevate Narrative in Oxenfree” given by Sean Krankel…