LibGuides: Screenwriting + Playwriting*: Storytelling + Game Narrative

New + Recommended Reading

Character Development and Storytelling for Games

Interactive stories and video game art : a storytelling framework for game design

Storytelling for interactive digital media and video games

Collaborative Worldbuilding for Writers and Gamers

Key Resouces

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Keywords: video games, artificial intelligence

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Read full-text articles published in the Association for Computing Machinery periodicals and proceedings.

Keywords: digital media, game design

Interactive Fiction

Choose Your Story
Create storygames, comment on other storygames and improve your writing ability.
Text Adventures
Join a community of interactive fiction game makers and players.

From GDC 2017

In this 2017 GDC talk, NHTV University professor and Narrative and Game Design Consultant Mata Haggis shares his practical tips for creating compelling drama in your indie game.