Nor is it even that codifying rules for creating stories is less effective than just winging it.
The point here, though, is not that all that Blake Snyder BS will only render up repetitive story structures.
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Download their fascinating salmagundis of roleplaying gaming and genre criticism here. Like in life, it's how you react to the random events that's often the most memorable stuff.įunnily enough, Roger and Michael talk about Save the Cat in that particular episode of Improvised Radio Theatre – With Dice. It bears as much relation to good (= interesting, unusual, surprising) stories as fast food does to a good meal. It’s a join-the-dots narrative construction model designed to help Hollywood churn out the product they want to make. That Hollywood baby formula of turning points and themes and act breaks – that’s the little learning that’s a dangerous thing in game designers' hands. You don’t just want the sniper to hit the target when it suits the story. In that same podcast, Roger and Michael talk about a sniper character. But you already know that if you’ve read earlier posts like this one and this. Not what we say happens afterwards, but what we feel at the time.” I’m not sure that story is actually the product we’re trying to produce in roleplaying games. Michael Cule: “I’m not convinced that we’re doing the same sort of storytelling. Roger Bell-West: “replicating the sort of story that you’ll find in another medium.
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