Creative Writing In Game Design Tutorial

[The World Is Flat]

V2.20

Submitted for the Tutorial Contest.

19,000 + words & 41 Ms Word Pages.

TUTORIAL V2.20

Version Log In Tutorial.
Added Stub Custom Maps in Wc3 Tutorial.

.rtf - Rich Text Format, a widely supported text format that a large number of programs can use. notepad can open .rtf files.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Edited.

And - Is everyone to scared to comment let alone DL?

 

[Fussiler1]

You expect them to comment on 27000 words in one day, reading from the computer screen?

Anyways, I read the first nine pages and 'till now it seems pretty handy, yet somewhat basic. Also note that a RP (Roleplay) is completely different from a RPG (Roleplaying Game)

 

[The World Is Flat]

For all intents and purpouses in game design we will consider it null.

 

[Pyritie]

Edit - Fail Hive doesen't Support RTF attachments.

Either send ralle a PM asking to allow that file type or just .zip it.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Yeah, I will.

 

[The World Is Flat]

-update-
v2.10

 

[Pyritie]

Did you attach it yet?

 

[The World Is Flat]

No.
Will Eventually.
But the link has been changed.

 

[Grey Nightmare]

Edited.

And - Is everyone to scared to comment let alone DL?

Yes, it's a lot of pages... I admire your effort but as Fussiler1 pointed out, some of it just plain obvious or overly complicated - by you - I don't think it needs to be that long, try trimming it down...

Quality > Quantity

Very few people will read that all the way through - We humans hate putting effort into anything

 

[The World Is Flat]

V2.10 ditches the obvious stuff... have you read it? i rewrote the whole thing. its acually smaller now too.

 

[Gath_Stormer]

I might be posting late, but I WILL BE HEARD! Anyway. I scanned over it and from what I stopped to read it seemed very useful. I must say your ~ Is it a Rip? ~ and some other spots are absolutely halarious. (And I did NOT just read the ~ Is it a Rip? ~ section...) <.< >.>

 

[The World Is Flat]

Well thank you Very much. I put quite a few hours of work into the updated version.

 

[Gath_Stormer]

Anything less than a few hours or several hours of work would be impossible it seems.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Ya, it was a load of work, but it was pretty damn fun to make, had a blast.

 

[Gath_Stormer]

That is good to hear. It's never good to write something because you have to.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Well -doh!'

Anyway, ANYONE ELSE WANNA BLOODY READ IT?

 

[Gath_Stormer]

No, I'm your only fan... <.< >.>

 

[The World Is Flat]

:/ that sucks. (No offense )

 

[Ardnived]

You should make it a .pdf in the future instead of .rtf

It is called Creative Writing in Game Design. However there seems to be a lot about how to write, and what to write, which ultimate will be largely irrelevant in a game, except for dialog (Unless of course this is a text based game).

However once you get past the first chapter, it seems to get into the good stuff, from what I skimmed. "Is it a Rip?" is amusing

Also in the Warcraft III section, a while ago Blizzard increased the maximum map size for B.net to 8mb, the section says 4.

Anyways nice work.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Ya well, thankoes.

Creative writing in game design is... well creative writing in general, i have a few sections on how to apply it but mostly it requires you to remeber a few rules, and styles.

 

[Pandawarrior]

Oh, wow. I read through this whole thing. I really loved it. It was absolutely fantastic, imo. This is the type of thing that needs to be set out in order to create an interesting and fantastic story. I am very tired of seeing the whole "The zombies entered the city." when a quality effort in that sentence would make it "The wretched flesh and bone creatures ravaged through the city while violently scratching at any resistance." I honestly, as a mod maker and game developer am very intrigued by this.. more of a resource than a tutorial. But still, a very good amount of effort was put into this. Quality work!

 

[The World Is Flat]

I am touched that you found it useful. Suggestions/comments?

 

[Pandawarrior]

Not really, I think it is perfect in which perspective you came to the audience. I believe that perspective is not of a tutorial/lesson, but as a teacher. Bravo

 

[Dr Super Good]

I think this was posted in the wrong tutorial section. The only references I found were to WC3 so it has been moved appropiatly. I guess that some of the ideas in it could apply to both.

I advise publishing it as a .pdf file for ease of access. Also the use of page breaks causes it to mess up on wide screens that support viewing 2 pages at once (in Word).

 

[PurgeandFire]

I think he meant for it to be in sc2 submission, because the same thread is already approved here for wc3 tutorials:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...creative-writing-game-design-tutorial-167911/

 

[Rui]

I think I'll be creating a shared tutorial forum between WC3 and SC2, this is an example of tutorial that applies for both.
Unless it is different? TWIF?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Although the ideas taught in this could be used in SC2, the examples are all for WC3 (or are in a WC3 worthy style). I guess it could go in a shared section though.

 

[Rui]

For now, I have moved a few tutorials in Miscellaneous to SC2 tutorials with a permanent redirect (don't delete those redirects!). It'll do for now, I guess.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Its intended for use in anygame, but i made it mostly for wc3 in intention. I think i'll update this sometime soon to make it ambiguous.

 

[Bugz]

Gonna try and make something more readable ( Html ) so you dont need to scroll, and you can easier find what you want. Alright ? need to practice some old html again, kind of lost it..

 

[The World Is Flat]

I doubt there will be need to do that.

Also, i am rewriting this, thus again, irrelevant, a properly organized PDF will do, which i can handle on my own.

(WOW, I love commas!)

(I'm updating it to reflect new understanding/modern advances in theory.)

I also know enough HTML/Javascript/CSS to manage something like that myself, thanks for the offer.

 

[Bugz]

Alright

 

[PurgeandFire]

This hasn't been updated in a while, and since we already have the Warcraft III version approved, I think I should move this to the graveyard. (this was previously submitted for Starcraft II)

~Graveyarded.