Writing Interactive Stories for Video Games & Other Formats

The student will be able to write a video-game type story interactive story script at the end of this course. 

A recent release of a popular video game sold more than $1 billion in one day! Video games represent a new form of storytelling in which the story creators and the story's audience collaborate to create a totally new form of fiction -- Interactive Fiction! 

In this course, you will learn how to create stories for video games, an exciting, new form of storytelling. We will explore traditional modes of story structure and character building, as well as learn what makes Interactive Fiction different and special and learn how to incorporate interactive elements into your stories. This course is appropriate for beginning and advanced writers who want to acquire skills in this lucrative new field, and for artists and programmers who wish to learn the story-telling elements of the games they are already creating. 

Nearly 6 hours of original content; 12 hours of additional entertaining, informative, and inspirational material; and focused exercises that will guide you to the creation of your own project. 

• Introduction
• Introduction
• Brief history
• Ja watch movie
• Journal Activity interactivity
• Where are we going now
• Hero's journey
• Graphic organizers 2
• Story structure
• 12 stage mythic story part 1
• 12 stage mythic story part 2
• Conflict
• Conflict 2
• Journal Your story
• Interactivity 1
• Interactivity 2
• Interactivity 3
• Character
• Hero archetypes
• Character archetypal hero 1
• Character archetypal hero 2
• Journal activity character backstory
• Journal Activity – building a character
• Journal activity bad guy
• Ja other characters
• Characters other archetypal 2a
• Chracters other archetypal 1
• Journal Activity reflection backstory
• Character backstory
• Journal Activity – building a character worksheet
• Journal Activity using the character worksheet
• Setting
• Journal Activity setting thought experiment
• Journal Activity setting
• Graduate Degree in Interactive Story Structure
• Final stage highest level