Why Wildermyth's Best Story Wasn't Written By Anyone
Added 2021-07-10 10:38:22 +0000 UTCVideogames are a storytelling medium, everyone knows that - but unlike their contemporaries, they allow us to write our own stories too - by interacting with the systems and mechanics of games, we can tell gripping stories of survival against the odds, create epic rivalries between us and NPCs, and epic quests starring heroes of our own creation.
So... how can games do this?
Well, one of the best ways is through a particular game design ethos called permanence - where games remember your actions and allow you to build on them, not just over the course of a single level, but an entire playthrough - and there's no better example of it than a little game called Wildermyth. As a result, the Architect has spent the last few weeks making friends with orcs, delving into old addictions and apologizing to dragons for that big misunderstanding, all in an effort to understand how games can create stories not by writing them - but by giving us space to write them ourselves...
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Comments
You undersell yourself -- this has got to be one of your best videos yet.
Isaac Handelman
2021-07-13 00:18:04 +0000 UTCI actually dismissed Wildermyth but now I'll give it another go! :-) thank you.
Theis Egeberg
2021-07-12 04:46:29 +0000 UTC
