{"id":963,"date":"2015-09-27T15:04:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T19:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootdiskrevolution.com\/?p=963"},"modified":"2015-09-27T15:07:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T19:07:28","slug":"storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootdiskrevolution.com\/NEW_BLOG\/storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week was more level six work! The end is within sight, and I hope to finish it next week. Now without further ado, let’s talk a bit about storytelling!<\/p>\n

One bit of polish I’m bringing to Bleed 2 is that the whole game is designed as a seamless experience; every encounter leads directly and logically to the next with almost no cut-aways, time skips or fades to black. I’m hoping for it to come across as one giant, epic mission — especially in Arcade Mode! — and in general think it lends gravity and context to what you’re accomplishing.<\/p>\n

So for example, when you beat the Mirror Core at the end of level one, there’s a little cutscene that plays to transition you to the next level.<\/p>\n

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Same goes for all levels, and all the markedly different sections within levels! Transitions are as quick as possible without being jarring, and don’t take control away from you — the only ones to sometimes violate these rules are the end-of-level cutscenes, which I’m showing here (go figure.)<\/p>\n

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Even still, they’re around 5sec, tops.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mostly this is me going that little bit extra, trying to elevate Bleed 2 as much as I can, but in general it’s an attempt to improve how I tell stories in my games. Ever since my first game, Frequency (which had a loooot of action-murdering talking), it’s something I’ve tried to work on.<\/p>\n

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Blahblahblah. (Starring me as a character in my own game.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve come to look at menus as a great place to insert story information and get people more involved with the game’s world. GrappleBoy, for example, justifies it’s arcadey structure as a day-long journey up a mountain (to return a tape to a video store before it closes.) The height measurement and time of day changes as you ascend, and these details are reflected in the levels as well.<\/p>\n

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Similarly, I tried to use the menus in the original Bleed to elaborate on Wryn’s character.<\/p>\n

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Bleed 2 will continue this trend of menus-as-storytelling where possible, but more than anything I’m trying to make the story happen to you, because of you, all around you, so that every play-through becomes its own little self-contained burst of player-driven, action-driven awesome.<\/p>\n

…it’ll probably just end up being a fun action game. But these are my secret, behind-the-scenes goals and aspirations!! High-falutin’ navel-gazing artiste, out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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