Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. 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.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It was like resetting a little stage-play; the NPC actors hit their marks and reappeared at their start location. Most Dikus could, with minor text editing, share their zone files, because they almost all played exactly the same! Breadcrumbs, dialogue trees, cutscenes, progression paths. Why did something like that come to be?

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Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 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. Nothing stops you from adding more commands, functions, markup tags, or new ways to process the script. // custom NPC AI script example?

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

When you imagine doing this job, is it mostly about crafting amazing cutscenes? How can I get this NPC to convey a specific emotion if I don’t have that specific animation in my toolbox? Brainstorming, writing, editing, and workshopping text! Brainstorming, writing, editing, and workshopping text! Creative writing.

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