All Categories - The Narrative Department
May 12, 2025 ·
Why “Becoming A Better Writer” Isn’t Enough Are you watching Andor? It's SO GOOD! I'm obsessed!...
Congratulations! You’ve worked hard to hone your storytelling chops. You’ve studied dialogue,...
April 30, 2025 ·
You won’t find it in the design docs. No one says it out loud in meetings. But behind...
April 24, 2025 ·
(This is Part Two of our series on how to collaborate with designers. You can read Part One here....
April 17, 2025 ·
You’ve worked hard on your story idea. It’s smart. It’s emotional. It would make your game...
Here's an email that landed in my inbox a few weeks ago: YES!!!!! I knew how long Mario had...
Imagine being able to say, “I’m a senior narrative designer at Bungie.” 🤩 That’s Ash Poprik’s...
February 24, 2025 ·
Imagine The Last Of Us without the opening sequence, the giraffe scene, or the hospital finale. ...
February 11, 2025 ·
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: "We don't need a writer—the gameplay tells the story."...
August 20, 2024 ·
A student in our bootcamp asked an excellent question. He wants to know: If only those studios...
July 29, 2024 ·
"I would LOVE to be a game writer / narrative designer..." If you've ever dreamed of writing...
February 23, 2024 ·
Should game studios use writers’ rooms, or is that a terrible idea? What’s the best way to...
August 17, 2023 ·
When it comes to game writing, there is A LOT of info out there on the interwebs. It's like a...
August 11, 2023 ·
Want to know how to become a videogame writer? You can start by playing a lot of video games...
August 3, 2023 ·
Hi! In today's video, I share a way to think about worldbuilding from the player's point of...
June 19, 2023 ·
No matter what we dream of becoming in life - a game writer, an astronaut, a candlestick maker -...
May 28, 2023 ·
In this week's blog post, I share some thoughts on GDC's online showcase, which is coming right...
March 14, 2023 ·
How do you chase big dreams? That's what narrative designer and producer Elay Ghanbari had to...
February 23, 2023 ·
For years, Cam Baity was a stop-motion animator, a sci-fantasy author, and a TV writer. He won...
January 18, 2023 ·
A lot of people - a LOT of people - want to work in the video game industry. It's not easy to...