The third and last part of the Pixelles Writing Portfolio Program assignment was making a 2-10 minute (later they modified it to 5-10) piece of interactive fiction. I wanted to make something that used an array of values, to create a random feel on replay. I also wanted to make the piece feel like a brief, interstitial moment. I figured out the title pretty quickly: “Scam Likely.” What is a more nothing time than a phone call in this day and age? And what is more opaque than seeing “Scam Likely” on…
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Building A Game Writing Portfolio: PWW Assignment 2.5 – Item Descriptions
The “extra credit” portion in the second Pixelles Writing Portfolio Program assignment was to write item descriptions. I was excited for this one as since I spent the better part of a decade writing fun!copy for things that were often incredibly similar but needed unique copy. I love writing product descriptions, enough to have written about how to do it. The assignment was to write descriptions for 10-20 items and vary the type of item. What it recommended was to consider: purpose (is this flavour text or useful info?) tone (does it fit…
Building A Game Writing Portfolio: PWW Assignment 2 – Cutscene Cinematic
The second Pixelles Writing Portfolio Program assignment was to make a cinematic for a cutscene. After struggling with the assignment a bit I realised the problem was all the cinematics or cut scenes I liked were just slide shows with narration. Thanks, Obsidian. Honestly though the ‘Dead Money’ intro of Fallout: New Vegas is the most effective 20 seconds and something to strive for. With that in mind, I kept with the previous theme of “extending the world I’ve already built in this unfinished Twine game” from the first assignment. Basically, this doesn’t not take place…
Building A Game Writing Portfolio: PWW Assignment 1 – Character Design Sheet
Recently, I took the Pixelles Writing Portfolio Program (which is free and great, check it out here). I’ve played with game writing before, I have a massive unfinished Twine game with documentation in spreadsheets, all that. But I wanted to purposefully attack and learn about it. The first assignment was making a character design sheet. I put it off for a while, but once I actually sat down to do it, I saw there was hardly anything left on it and all of it was easily scraped from a character…
So You’ve Decided to Play The Most Dangerous Game: 7 Things to Know Before Hunting Man For Sport
If you’re someone who is always chasing that next thrill or challenge, the idea of hunting your fellow man for sport may be an activity you’ve considered. For many of us, playing the most dangerous game is as inevitable as the survivors of a shipwreck or zombie apocalypse turning on each other in vicious plays of power. To the sportsman, nothing can compare with prey that has the ability to reason. Daredevils may be drawn to the heady promise of the adrenaline of the chase. Parents searching for a less…