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Story and Narrative Development for Video Games

Game Design: Art and Concepts,

In this course, you will examine how storytelling acts as a vital mechanism for driving video gameplay forward. Looking at several historical and contemporary games, you will be asked to evaluate and interpret different story styles with the goal of identifying themes and procedures for your own game ideas. We'll examine traditional narrative story processes, such as three-act structure, and how they fit into game story flows and the strategic elements of gameplay. Ultimately, you will learn how to define character, setting, and structure to create a compelling game concept.
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Rating 4.6 based on 172 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Starts Jun 26 (47 weeks ago)
Cost $79
From California Institute of the Arts via Coursera
Instructor Dariush Derakhshani
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Language English
Subjects Programming Art & Design Humanities
Tags Computer Science Design And Product Arts And Humanities Music And Art Software Development

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really enjoyed this course

I really enjoyed this course, The only thing I would have liked to have learned more about was how to do Game Design Documents and how they are made.

Excellent, simple and well structured I really enjoyed this course, and I felt that it helped me see video games from a story-first perspective.

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video games

Good experience to know about narrative for video games, very inspiring.

Overall the course was good :) Awesome experience, and really useful, well-packed, and valuable insight into story and narrative development for video games.

No es excesivamente profunda, pero muy recomendable precisamente porque admite a alumnos de casi todos los niveles.A good introduction to the narrative applied to video games.

I would recommend this course to anyone who's into storytelling for video games.

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easy to follow

I like that the instructions and lessons are easy to follow for a beginner.

This course is really interesting and fun, also absolutely understandable and easy to follow.

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about story writing

I appreciate knowing more now than I did before about story writing.

This course is amazing for everyone who wants to learn more about story writing and presenting it, which than can be used for video games, but also for anything else as well.Great course, my best recommendations.

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stories for games

A great starter on how to develop stories for games.

This is a good course for both who is starting as for those who already have a knowledge and seek advice and new ideas to develop stories for games.

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writing skills

这个课程非常有趣,而且能够扩展你的写作技巧。不仅仅是制作游戏,有志于成为专业作家的学生也可以尝试学习一下。注意:有少量课程的视频没有中文字幕,中国学生可能会有一些理解困难。 This course is very interesting and can expand your writing skills.

Great course for expanding your writing skills in relation to storytelling in games.

Very good method of passing the knoledge and valuable material and tecnics to start or develop your writing skills, great course, love it!

Great opportunity to practice your creative writing skills!

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Very happy with this A great course!

5 stars At the end of the course I'm happy with it.

It was not easy, I admit... but it was an awesome course, after this one i finished the four courses and I'm totally happy with everything I learned!!!

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last two

I would have preferred if the last two assignments were open on the theme of the game as I don't like shooting games that much, but I had the chance to practice the techniques explained in the course and enjoyed reviewing my peer's work.

Very important in develop of videogames Extremely helpful to get an introductory idea on how to use narrative in video games Big fan of the last two assignments.

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feel like

I feel like this can be very helpful for some who struggle with story and narrative writing, but for those who have taken courses and studied this already, it was repetitive and tiresome.

Years later, I needed to up my skills, and I discovered Coursera had many of the classes I wanted to take-- and now I feel like my MFA is an MFA+.

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but still

I am not a hardcore gamer but still I was able to understand the lessons and the examples given were quite helpful.

I know that there is a lot of people going this courses and maybe it is not possible but still there are things that I feel only the teacher could answer.

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An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile.

Head of Content + Storytelling Hub $46k

Coordinator, Digital Storytelling $53k

Product Manager, Storytelling Tools $130k

Senior Product Manager, Storytelling Tools $135k

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Rating 4.6 based on 172 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Starts Jun 26 (47 weeks ago)
Cost $79
From California Institute of the Arts via Coursera
Instructor Dariush Derakhshani
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Programming Art & Design Humanities
Tags Computer Science Design And Product Arts And Humanities Music And Art Software Development

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