Out of all my 2024 projects, this was one of the ones that I enjoyed the most. Just for fun, I decided to try narrative design in a new context. I took a break from video games and participated in a tabletop RPG adventure design contest – Ben Milton's (of Questing Beast , Maze Rats, and Knave fame) Knave 2e Adventure Game Jam to be exact. Despite never having made anything with the system before, I managed to finish in sixth place! (Out of 117 entries! That's a heck of a lot better than I was expecting!) Plus, you get to draw on all the unhinged influences that you can't allow into your day job! If you're looking to flex your narrative design muscles, taking a little field trip into tabletop games is a great way to practice all of your skills in a slightly alien environment with new limitations that force you to think outside of the box. It's really interesting to start thinking of narrative and quest design in terms of page count and layout and graphic desig...
…and edits and designs and programs and sometimes lights things on fire.