How to be a Narrative Designer

How to be a Narrative Designer

August 20, 2022 from 2:00 pm to 2:50 pm

Speaker: Rick Stemm

Talk Description

PikPok has recently created a fully integrated Narrative Design Team. This talk is about our journey from having no game writing to some part time narrative designers to our current formal team We want to share our learnings, struggles, challenges, and advice. This is of course intended as a case study and discussion and not necessarily a “best practices,” though we hope to share some practical experience in building a successful narrative design team together.

Talk Takeaways

Audiences will get a high level overview of the process, needs, and goals of a greater narrative design team, as well as some specific learnings about what narrative designers do and how they contribute to a bigger team. Q&A included in presentation.

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