Bravely Default 2: Building the Perfect Party Turn-based JRPGs are inundated with quirky holdouts from a bygone era of gaming; random encounters, slow turn-based combat with long animations that make fights unnecessarily long, the need for excessive
The Dingo's Desk Competitive Team Games and the Complicated Narrative Competitive team games are like writing a complicated plot. Too many things to keep track of and no one on your team doing anything right.
The Dingo's Desk Why It Doesn't Matter That Your Story Ideas Aren't Original There are quite a few books you can read that will describe the idea of the basic plot. Prominent among them is Christopher Booker’s The Seven Basic Plots, in which he details the 7 basic plots we used to tell the same stories repeatedly.
The Dingo's Desk Animal Crossing: The Doom of Constant Action Where to even start with a game like Animal Crossing? I mean, it’s Animal Crossing. It’s one of the highest selling games of 2020. And it dropped when
The Dingo's Desk Elite Dangerous: Simulating Suspension of Disbelief I have a low barrier to entry in my ability to suspend my disbelief. Honestly, you kind of have to flush your standards for suspension of disbelief down the toilet
The Pit of the Gods Sakma’s black hair held tight to a golden ring that clumped the thick, sweaty mess into a neat bun. She never wore her hair down while in the mines.
The Dingo's Desk Age of Calamity: The Narrative Importance of Gameplay A narrative enhances gameplay and not enough games have gameplay directly affect the narrative.
The Dingo's Desk Overwatch and the Competitive Drive as it Relates to Writing Discipline How I turned my competitive drive in Overwatch into the discipline to finish writing a book.
One Minute (But Always Longer) Rants I Hate Uncharted and It's a Terrible Game That's it. It's just bad.
The Dingo's Desk Warhammer 40K: Mechanicus and the Decisions of Character Learn what Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus can teach us about the decisions a character can make and how they affect storytelling.
The Dingo's Desk Paper Mario: The Small Details of World Building Discover how Paper Mario utilizes world building and what we can learn from a few games in the franchise.
The Dingo's Desk The Essence of Adventure in the Legend of Zelda What makes Wind Waker and Breath of the Wild so good? What about an adventure is so great? Read on to find out!
The Dingo's Desk How to Get Motivated (A Character's Guide to Finding Their Place in Your World) - Dingo's Desk Do your characters lack motivation? Do they seem down and out after having started their journey? Well, fret no more! Learn the secrets behind proper character motivation and your characters will never again rather sit on the couch than fight the dark overlord.
The Valley The Rooftop The Reef glistened, reflecting the purple, pink, light green, and deep blue lights of the streets below. The wall of windows on the intertwined high rises danced in the waving
Other Worlds The Kiss This is a small piece done for a workshop item on r/writingprompts to demonstrate a quick use of pacing.
The Forest The House Atop the Hill When Edith discovers a pile of bodies rotting in her basement, she has trouble getting her daughter to help clean up the mess.
