by Jon Manning | Released November 2016 | ISBN: 9781491969823

Narrative games revel in the mystery and excitement of their storylines. While this course won't teach you how to write a story, it will teach you ways to make your interactive stories more interesting and compelling.The course takes you through the complete process of building a narrative game using nothing but Unity, some open source dialogue software, some free art and music from open source locations, and your own smarts. The course works best for those with a very basic understanding of the Unity game engine interface and C# programming. Gain hands-on experience building a complete narrative game with Unity software Explore ways to create challenging interactive worlds and expressive characters Learn how to create the conversations between characters that push the story forward Discover how to source dazzling art and music for your game for free (or a very low cost) Understand how to add audio, and use Yarn based branching dialog tools Acquire experience in creating the clever gameplay that keeps gamers interestedJon Manning is a co-founder of Secret Lab, where he makes games and does research. He has written about a dozen technical books for O'Reilly Media, and wrote two games for ABC Australia's children's TV series Play School and one for Qantas Airways. He's currently working on Button Squid, a top-down puzzler for iOS, and is fond of making cool tools for rad devs. Show and hide more Publisher resources Download Example Code

1. Introduction
   • Introduction 00:01:23
   • About The Author 00:00:41
2. Designing For Narrative
   • The Tools 00:04:35
   • Creating The Project 00:02:46
   • Creating The Basic Gameplay 00:06:36
   • Creating The World Part 1 00:06:03
   • Creating The World Part 2 00:04:45
   • Creating The Dialogue UI 00:09:58
   • Creating A Simple Dialogue 00:09:52
   • Designing The Story 00:02:00
   • Building The Story Part 1 00:07:21
   • Building The Story Part 2 00:07:27
   • Continuing To Build The Story Part 1 00:07:36
   • Continuing To Build The Story Part 2 00:06:08
   • Adding Audio 00:02:38
3. Conclusion
   • Wrap Up And Thank You 00:01:06
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