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RPG General News - Jeff Vogel about Storytelling

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    [​IMG]Jeff Vogel explains how to write a good story for a game:

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    How To Write a Good Story That Doesn't Give Me Headaches

    Logic, clarity, and making sense are missing more often than they should be.

    The 1995 south park short was the first viral video I ever say, back when videos took hours to download and were the size of postage stamps. Kids, ask your parents to explain what a 'postage stamp' was.
    (I freely admit that I do most of my writing online to get attention for our games in an immensely overcrowded industry. So let me briefly mention that we have announced the Kickstarter for our next indie RPG, Avernum 4: Greed and Glory. Follow the link and press the button to be reminded when it starts in a week. Thanks!)

    "When someone says a video game has a good story, they mean it has a story."

    - Vogel's 1st Law of Video Game Storytelling

    There is a video I like to amplify whenever I see it. It's storytelling advice from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, makers of South Park, The Book of Mormon, and other stuff.

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