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The Game Writing Guide: Get Your Dream Job and Keep It

Title: The Game Writing Guide: Get Your Dream Job and Keep It Author: Anna Megill Publisher: CRC Press First Published: 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003282235 Abstract: This comprehensive guide walks readers through the entire process of getting ...

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Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing

Title: Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing  Authors: Wendy Despain (ed.), John Feil, Andrew S. Walsh, Anthony Burch, Marek Walton, Tracy A. Seamster, Samantha Wallschlaeger, Ross Berger, Haris Orkin, Heidi McDonald, Rhianna Pratchett, Richard Dansk...

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Table of Contents (1st ed.)

Professional Techniques for Video Game ...

Table of Contents - 1st edition: How to Break In and Stay In (Beth A. Dillon) Interactive Script Formatting (Wendy Despain) Writing Pitch Docs and Exec Docs (Erin Hoffman) Game Documentation Guide (John Feil) Manuals, In-Game Text, and Credits (John Feil) Nar...

Table of Contents (2nd ed.)

Professional Techniques for Video Game ...

Table of Contents - 2nd Edition: Getting Writing Jobs in Video Games by Wendy Despain Game Script Formatting by Wendy Despain Documentation for Writers by John Feil Writing Instructions, Helptext, Walkthroughs, and Manuals – Text to Train the Player by John F...

Branching Story, Unlocked Dialogue

Title: Branching Story, Unlocked Dialogue: Designing and Writing Visual Novels Author: Toiya Kristen Finley Publisher: CRC Press First Published: 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003199724  Abstract: This book covers the distinguishing characteristic...

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Writing for Video Game Genres: From FPS to RPG

Title: Writing for Video Game Genres: From FPS to RPG  Author: Wendy Despain (ed.), Steve Danuser, Tracy A. Seamster, Daniel Erickson, Lee Sheldon, John Feil, Andrew S. Walsh, Lucien Soulban, Haris Orkin, Stephen Dinehart, Maurice Suckling, David Wessman, Ric...

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Table of Contents

Writing for Video Game Genres: From FPS...

Table of Contents:  Writing for Massively Multiplayer Online Games by Steve Danuser and Tracy A. Seamster Writing for Role-Playing Games by Daniel Erickson Writing for Adventure Games by Lee Sheldon Writing for Action-Adventure Games by John Feil Writing for ...

The Video Game Writer's Guide to Surviving an Industry That Hates You

Title: The Video Game Writer's Guide to Surviving an Industry That Hates You Author: Richard Dansky Publisher: CRC Press First Published: 2025 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003592983 Abstract: There have been many books written about how to write for g...

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Collaborative Worldbuilding for Video Games

Title: Collaborative Worldbuilding for Video Games  Author: Kaitlin Tremblay Publisher: CRC Press First Published: 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003345619  Abstract: This book is a theoretical and practical deep dive into the craft of worldbuildi...

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Video Game Storytelling: What Every Developer Needs to Know about Narrative Techniques

Title: Video Game Storytelling: What Every Developer Needs to Know about Narrative Techniques Author: Evan Skolnick Publisher: Watson Guptill First Published: 2014 Link: https://www.evanskolnick.com/vgs  Abstract: With increasingly sophisticated video gam...

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articy: draft

Title: articy: draft Authors: Articy Software GmbH Description: Interactive stories are complex by nature and require powerful narrative design tools. Use articy:draft X as a visual database to manage all your storylines, characters, and variables in one sin...

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Arcweave

Title: Arcweave Authors: Arcweave Inc Description: Arcweave is a collaborative narrative engine for designing and prototyping immersive interactive experiences. It enables writers and designers to create complex projects intuitively, collaborate synchronousl...

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Twine

Title: Twine Authors: the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation (IFTF) Description: Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your st...

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