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More on Narrative Consistency & Effective Storytelling

Part of me wants to take some time this morning to fire off a reply to the conversation that’s happening over here, but in my past experience when someone has decided that ‘story’ means ‘linear expression of the author’s will’ then there’s very little to say to them without being accused of muddying the waters [...]

Narrative’s Creed

I’m going to jump back to the topic of narrative consistency for a moment. The “other” Jason pointed out that as long as videogames continue to follow certain accepted paradigms of measurable life force, invisible area containment walls and InstaCureAll life packs, we’ll never really be able to attain narrative consistency with videogames. I’m not [...]

Narrative Consistency

I intended to publish my Round Table post this morning, but Unfettered Blather has an interesting nit to pick and I thought I’d post a response to that instead. The Round Table post will still get written, it just might not hit the airwaves until next week. Before I start on this post, let me [...]