This is a comprehensive guidebook for long-term storytelling in mobile games and games-as-a-service (aka live games). The book formalizes creative techniques of game writing and narrative design for a platform (and revenue model) that has shown drastic growth and changes over the past few years.
Valentina Tamer is a narrative designer and game writer with several years of experience in the games industry, throughout which she's crafted engaging stories for a wide range of videogames, from mobile games to narrative adventures. Val currently works as a senior narrative designer for Ubisoft Paris Mobile.
Part I Introduction
Chapter 1 What Is Narrative Design?
Chapter 2 An Overview of Narrative Design
Chapter 3 Why Does Narrative Design Matter?
Part II Interactive Storytelling
Chapter 4 Introduction to Interactive Storytelling
Chapter 5 Interactive Storytelling Structures
Chapter 6 Open-Ended Storytelling Structures
Part III Live Game Storytelling
Chapter 7 Introduction to Mobile Game Storytelling
Chapter 8 Introduction to Live Game Storytelling
Chapter 9 Learning from Other Media
Chapter 10 Building the Narrative Foundation
Chapter 11 Narrative Tools
Chapter 12 Planning Your Seasons
Chapter 13 Writing Your Seasonal Plot
Chapter 14 Keeping a Long-Running Story Interesting
Chapter 15 Best Practices
Part IV Beyond a Game's Story
Chapter 16 Transmedia Storytelling
Chapter 17 Narrative Monetization
Part V Conclusion
Conclusion