By RHENN TAGUIAM at Gamerant Deckard Cain is a big part of Diablo’s universe and lore. Here’s a look at 10 things you might not know about the character. Stay awhile and listen. CRPG fans who read that sentence will immediately remember the scholar Deckard Cain from the Diablo franchise. Outside the titular…
This is the launching Web App for the global popular sci-fi fiction Sword Art Online, Spinoff version Gun Gale, Japan’s hit novel released in 2017, and a promotion webpage for comic and animation sites. Client Aniplex Inc. Art Director 有马 智之 Web Development 和泉 俊树*、永井 大辅* Visual Design 宫崎 真一朗＊…
By Brooke Maggs Imagine writing a story where the first thing the “reader” asks when they begin is: what do I do? The answer might be one or all of these things: explore, survive, observe, solve, form a strategy, make decisions. Game writing is a type of storytelling where the…
By GameWriting Video games are a huge industry, worth billions of dollars every year. But the people who make them don’t work in a vacuum. They need to know how to write a video game script. Luckily for aspiring writers, there are some simple rules you can follow to create…
–By Narrative Thread Despite receiving praise for its story and lore, particularly in contrast to the previous entry in the series, Diablo 4’s narrative design — and, by extension, its campaign — is the blandest ingredient in this demon-slaying cocktail It starts with a cutscene — a wanderer, assaulted by…
The Titanfall franchise and Apex Legends share an expansive universe. Many of the legends in Apex have backstories with major links to Titanfall. BY RYAN BRIDGES It’s widely known that Apex Legends takes place in the same universe as the Titanfall franchise. Locations, weapons, and characters that appeared in Titanfall and Titanfall 2 also appear in Apex Legends. However,…
When people talk about gaming, they usually talk about it as if it’s one monolithic thing. It’s not. It’s actually three monolithic things. There are three distinct pillars that makeup what we offhandedly call game writing: Plot, character, and lore Not all games need to focus on all of these…
Marvel Comics, is one of the biggest two American media and entertainment companies that was widely regarded as the most known publisher and a subsidiary of the Disney Company. Its headquarters are in New York City. The precursor to Marvel Comics was founded in 1939 by a pulp magazine publisher…
Building the optimistic future of Overwatch — Lead Writer Michael Chu 2017 GDC Blizzard has the company values, one is “thinking globally”, for developers, it’s hard for us to figure out what that means, obviously is thinking about the other teams working around the world. On OW, we have this…
Brief Pan Gu is a central figure in the Chinese Taoist legend of world creation, the first man, is said to come forth from chaos(a big egg). Pan Gu is said to have two horns, two tusks, and a shaggy body. Some accounts credit him with the separation of heaven…
