While I feel that storytelling via video games ought not to rely on dialog, I do feel that poorly written dialog can really hamper the enjoyment of a narrative. A lot of video game dialog falls prey to the expository voice. What I mean by this is that the dialog spends a lot of time [...]
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Dialog Challenge: Scenes from the End #1
July 23, 2008 – 2:34 pm
This is the first (of five) dialog challenges I’ll be posting on the blog. All characters and locations were suggested by the readers of this blog. My challenge is to stitch their suggestions together exclusively via dialog. Originally I intended to post unrelated scenes, but the suggestions inspired me to write them all into a [...]
