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Game-Changing Storytelling: How To Integrate Narrative Elements in Mobile Games

Game Refinery

However, these storytelling elements go far beyond the main narrative, with cutscenes and dialogue seamlessly integrated throughout the experience to build a truly immersive world. Goddess of Victory: NIKKE features high-quality anime cutscenes.

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Designer Notes #69: Chris DeLay – Part 2

Designer Notes

They discuss how to play Prison Architect without a prison, why the game needed cutscenes, and how to design an economy when the world is ending. This episode was recorded on March 24, 2022.

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The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

Animation: Two perspectives, the separation of cloud and mud Lost Ark has a sincere visual performance, among which are various cutscenes from a top-down perspective. Despite the game’s powerful use of top-down view, the live cutscenes of Lost Ark are full of bugs. The rough cutscene). The grand scene).

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Secrets in Videogames

Keith Burgun

Part of the “golden path” you just haven’t seen yet – If it’s your first playthrough, and you’re watching the first cutscene, whatever is in the next cutscene is not a “secret”, it’s just information that the player hasn’t encountered yet. They are findable.

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Darner's Digest, vol. 3: on the Yarn Spinner v2.0 release + a YS primer

Radiator Blog

What is Yarn Spinner in 2022? Some games do all their cutscene scripting and even enemy AI in Yarn Spinner, because really, it's just a simple scripting language that does whatever you tell it to do. But a lot about YS and its ecosystem have changed, so it's probably helpful to recap what's going on. When to use Yarn Spinner 3.

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Would “Sword Art Online” Be a Bad VR Game?

Rampant Games

In the fiction, November 6, 2022 was the launch day for the game “ Sword Art Online ,” chronicled in the books, manga, and anime series of that name. Cutscenes in an MMO? In the Sword Art Online: Progressive novels, certain plotlines are punctuated by forced events which are effectively cutscene events.

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The Magic Behind Magicabin’s ARPDAU

Deconstructor of Fun

Magicabin is a relatively new adventure game, released in 2022 by Ivy Mobile. While rich in dialogue, the narrative is often self-explanatory, supported by cutscenes, expressive character emojis, and other visual cues. It has quickly become a top-performing game for the publisher, accounting for over 70% of their revenue in 2024.

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