This article was originally printed in the IGDA Writers SIG Quarterly NB Penumbra spoilers throughout! There's something about a te...

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I've written before about player mortality, suggesting 'Game Over' is an anachronism we can replace with cleverer, narratively ...

Since playing Heavy Rain and Bioshock 2 I've been thinking a lot about decision making in games, and how it affects emotional engagement...

While these days we see plenty of interviews with writers, and narrative themed postmortems, I still sometimes feel like the actual proces...