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Introduction I remember as a young product manager, working on major releases at Disney and Rovio how excited I was for the cutscenes. After release I was responsible for analyzing churn and sharing the results with the team: the cutscenes were driving users out of the game. The team poured their hearts into the work.
Alas, I feel compelled to write about it. It's a hard thing to write about. But I have a whole lot of my own personal skin in this game, and I've been writing and speaking on this exact topic for a long time. I've Been Writing About This For a Long Time Who the hell am I anyway? It's painful. Lost livelihoods. Lost homes.
The side quests and smaller interactions in the game are good, those cutscenes are great. These kinds of games are really “stuff reliant” – new characters, abilities, mechanics, loot, story events, monsters, etc need to be fed into the system at a good pace to continue being fun. actually a remake?
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It’s the fault of developers for not exploring new kinds of stories, new kinds of worlds, new kinds of mechanics and so on. You can and likely should use some, or even most of these (although in my opinion, we definitely need to ditch the “sprawling vista” – I’ll write an article on that someday).
When you imagine doing this job, is it mostly about crafting amazing cutscenes? You should concentrate on building up your writing portfolio and getting regular game writing work. A narrative designer writes too, but our primary job is getting the whole game to tell the same story. Creative writing.
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