Video: How Telltale designs narrative-driven games

It's easy to talk about games as "narrative-driven" experiences, but much more challenging to actually design and create one that guides players through a good story while still affording them meaningful choices.

Few studios spend more time mulling this problem over, collectively, than Telltale Games. From Jurassic Park to Game of Thrones to Tales From The Borderlands , designers at the studio have learned lessons about good storytelling in games from a wealth of different experiences.

At GDC 2015 some of them shared those lessons in a panel moderated by writer Tom Bissell. It played host to some interesting conversations about creating stories in an environment where the process of writing and game design have increasingly become one, and if you missed it in person you can now watch the entire panel for free over on the official GDC YouTube channel.

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