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Ludotronics: Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You!(0)

May 26, 2022

Long ago in 2019—some of yer olden folks might still remember—I published my book on game design methodologies.

Chris Crawford

Procedurally Generated Interactive Storytelling

Not all is well in Lego Dreamland.

Ludotronics

Interactive Narrative vs. Interactive Storytelling

In Ludotronics, my textbook on game design, I sometimes use less well-known terminology for specific reasons.

Bioshock

All Around a Theme

The important point is, “theme” is not about some message or moral, it’s about coherence and design decisions.

Scrolling

How Many Papyrus Scrolls Have You Written Today?

Come to think of it, writing on scrolls is effectively what we’re free to do now.

AdvX 2018

On Interactive Writing: Jon Ingold’s Sparkling Dialogues

How to plan, prepare, and execute dialogue that is both interesting and interactive.

Storytelling Technique, Western Culture Edition

Applies to around 95 % of popular books, movies, tv-shows, or video games. Add meta bonus for rationalizations in literature vs. genre / highbrow vs. lowbrow manifestos.

Where Our Treasured Writers Go

Good literary criticism, after all, does what every good scientific endeavor does: it builds models and checks how well they stack up against the evidence.

Carved Landscapes I

Book-Cut Storytelling: Carved Landscapes

“Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS.”

German Plot Roulette

Cue hatemail in 3–2–1…

Cerebral Writing

A professional micromanager with words, I keep having a hard time writing blogposts suited to sparking and maintaining a conversation.

Silent Hill

Are You Afraid of the Dark? (Running By Night)

There must be a reason why I keep doing such things.

I Write Like… / Ich schreibe wie …

Orwell and Freud, according to statistical analysis. Are these algorithms our Digital Age’s new Über-Ich, filtering out everything deemed unsuitable and socially disruptive?

Is There Life Beyond Time Management?

It’s either the universe, or I’m too organized.

Sunday Question: Which Science Fiction Novels and Story Collections Had the Greatest Impact on You?

Most people I know who read sf read it in their formative years. Also, there’s no law that this period of “formative years” can’t be extended forever.

Mediadesign Hochschule

Creating Consistent SF-Worlds VI

This is the sixth post in a ten-part series about my Game Design workshop “Creating Consistent SF-Worlds” at the Mediadesign Hochschule in Düsseldorf, Germany.