Wise words for Bungie (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Monday, April 22, 2019, 17:47 (1824 days ago) @ Cody Miller

There were many storytellers in video games who thought that story was accomplished by adding lore. But putting a good story in a game requires the same understanding of dramatic principles as all narrative. You have to know how to create drama, create characters with internal logic who have wants and needs, and then use those elements of the work to draw out meaning as the player experiences the game.

Said better than I ever could, and I've been trying to say it since 2010.