02-01-2017, 08:32 AM
Not really an update related with the game, but I might as well mention.
I've decided that the original idea for this game's story I had was rather... rough. Not just rough. Horrible, horribly bare bones rough. In-fact: I barely planned much out with what I was doing.
So, this means that the story needs a MAJOR re-write to prevent what happened previously. To help cut down on creative thought, I'm going to keep some of the themes I had saved before that may have potential, but I need to mature out the barely-developed concepts and ideas into something worth writing and being interested about.
As with what I had before thinking of a story overhaul. It was a mess, everything was very isolated. And with this, there was no real build up to what I was doing. It was more-or-less a jumbled mess of ideas, clobbered about in such a way that any real event passed could be disposed of later on.
To make this more exciting, this was probably going to end up as two isolated, unrelated concepts being driven onto different train tracks that group up later. As when the two concepts mashed into whole story's structure, it's a cliche train crash. But this action would repeat thousands of times.
Due to this, I've made the "Video Game Story Writing Hierarchy". Something that looks like the dull, horrid work sheets you did early on in literacy classes during the education of your youth. Except the fact it goes over with how details should be arranged in a detailed, simplistic manner to prevent the issue of things being messy, and barely resembling a story with meaning.
This is meant to be used for any game. It's not perfect at all, but it's a step up from just doing something you made up on the spot, as it doesn't keep growing and growing into a butterfly effect that spirals out of control.
Below is a zip of the document in various common text formats.
(PS: I probably made some typos, as I wrote this with no for a whole day without sleep. I did proof-read and spellcheck it a couple times, though)
Video Game Story Writing Hierarchy.zip (Size: 10.73 KB / Downloads: 146)
I've decided that the original idea for this game's story I had was rather... rough. Not just rough. Horrible, horribly bare bones rough. In-fact: I barely planned much out with what I was doing.
So, this means that the story needs a MAJOR re-write to prevent what happened previously. To help cut down on creative thought, I'm going to keep some of the themes I had saved before that may have potential, but I need to mature out the barely-developed concepts and ideas into something worth writing and being interested about.
As with what I had before thinking of a story overhaul. It was a mess, everything was very isolated. And with this, there was no real build up to what I was doing. It was more-or-less a jumbled mess of ideas, clobbered about in such a way that any real event passed could be disposed of later on.
To make this more exciting, this was probably going to end up as two isolated, unrelated concepts being driven onto different train tracks that group up later. As when the two concepts mashed into whole story's structure, it's a cliche train crash. But this action would repeat thousands of times.
Due to this, I've made the "Video Game Story Writing Hierarchy". Something that looks like the dull, horrid work sheets you did early on in literacy classes during the education of your youth. Except the fact it goes over with how details should be arranged in a detailed, simplistic manner to prevent the issue of things being messy, and barely resembling a story with meaning.
This is meant to be used for any game. It's not perfect at all, but it's a step up from just doing something you made up on the spot, as it doesn't keep growing and growing into a butterfly effect that spirals out of control.
Below is a zip of the document in various common text formats.
(PS: I probably made some typos, as I wrote this with no for a whole day without sleep. I did proof-read and spellcheck it a couple times, though)
Video Game Story Writing Hierarchy.zip (Size: 10.73 KB / Downloads: 146)