thank you! (also hey Andrew!! hope you’re doing well!!)

and while I’m yelling about Yarn Spinner: Unity put us in their Black Friday sale! Go get it!! assetstore.unity.com/packages/too...

People keep coming up to me and see me wearing my @yarnspinner.dev branded clothes, and saying “hey we use Yarn Spinner and it rules!!” #NZGDC

(This is legit a good talk about some of the earliest writing about planning for achieving an emotional effect in your audience!)

A cool idea: to test the dialogue apart from the rest of the narrative elements, @osaurusstudios.bsky.social did a table read of the interactive dialogue to ensure that it wasn’t too dense and that it was stylistically natural. (They’re just all playing through the game’s script in Inky together!)

“Loot structures are useful for figuring out how to make a lot of items. In this example, we can use a table like this to figure out what we need to now make because we let players decide what their characters were going to be. Gosh, wasn’t that a mistake.”

On Summerfall doing 4 day weeks: David was uncertain and thought it was a 20% loss of productivity, so they tested it on an upcoming DLC, planned for 80% capacity, and shipped 10% earlier than planned - so while they did lose productivity, it was less than expected. Worth it for the side effects.

“I have done narrative design in a certain way for a while.” - @davidgaider.bsky.social
“A thousand years.” - @liamesler.bsky.social
“Twenty years.” - David