James Cavin Writes

I'm making a game! Purely for my own enjoyment. I highly recommend it. For the moment, I'm calling it: "Wake up, dead kosmonaut!" IT'S GONNA BE WEIRD.

It’s a sad fact of narrative design that WHEN EVERYTHING IS CRAZY, NOTHING IS CRAZY.

Navigating the teleological terrors which assail creativity in the current age.

We tend to think of world-building as the foundation of any fantastical project, BUT WE ARE WRONG.

In which a screenshot is enscreenshottened.

Real stakes require a real world, regardless of how much humor characters use to cope with it.

-OR- Is all fun good fun? Distraction, entertainment, and the slow murder of our capacity for satisfaction.

Bam! Pow! Zap! Other sounds of beeping and blooping digital destruction!

Is what you are doing right now less emotionally fulfilling than moving large bags of rat feces?

Temple Run: Legends was a really interesting challenge in general, but the trickiest part was definitely the limited time events that the design team wanted to do as post-launch content.

Our premise is simple: Don't try to use story to contradict everything else that the player sees and does.

A quick and simple rundown of the power of "player fantasy" in narrative design

Are you human being who sometimes must describe things to other people to convince them to give you money to feed your children and/or dangerous addiction to high-end Lego castles ?

  There's a finite amount of text space in your game. It's a terrible shame to waste any of it.

  – A Tragedy of Seeing With Open Eyes – – – Also Some Rambling Advice about Narrative Delivery Systems – –