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The Challenge

When making games based around a story, we have to be careful with how we present everything, in what order, and when. The stories we work with are linear, but the game experience needs to still feel like the player is an active participant in the story. So how do we balance that?

Our Approach

To begin with, we break the overall story into sections. What meaningful moments marks a change in the story? Once we have that figured out, we can start to build the game around these moments, and carefully bring them to life.

Expanding from that. What happens if the character doesn't make that choice? What if they do something else instead? We then figure out how that looks, and start to build the alternate story so players have their own choices to make.

The Solution