content-driven game design
Created: Apr 30,
2022Published: Mar 28,
2023Last modified: Apr 05,
2023
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I tend to think more mechanics-driven or systems-driven, or instead tools driven
(like let's make it ink-based! now i can work on ink-things!)
Content-driven is a push back towards writing, towards stories, towards characters.
Let go of the overengineering! Cut corners and write stories again!
maybe just write a script as the backbone
How to express some game experiences as an ink script?
- Overcooked
- the guard's known schedule and walking through the maze capture the choices the player will get and infuse the characters/narrative