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TKF

Mar 14, 2018
14 min

Keeping the Player at the Heart of the Story

The following is the first chapter in Narrative Tactics for Mobile and Social Games: Pocket-Sized Storytelling (CRC Press), due to be published on August 15,...

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TKF

Mar 14, 2018
4 min

Narrative Tactics for Mobile and Social Games: Pocket-Sized Storytelling

I’m pleased to announce that my next book project is Narrative Tactics for Mobile and Social Games: Pocket-Sized Storytelling, a follow-up to The Game Narrat...

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TKF

Jun 8, 2017
1 min

Crafting Intangibles: Do You Really Want to Go Home?

Hello and welcome, Crafting Intangibles attendees! You can find the Do You Really Want to Go Home? game and the scenario worksheet for incorporating contrary...

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TKF

Apr 7, 2016
2 min

Put This Clause in Your Work-for-Hire Agreements

If you’re an independent contractor, most of your jobs will be work for hire. (You’ve been commissioned to help your client develop something new.) With work...

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TKF

Feb 17, 2016
5 min

Contrary Game Design: Subverting Player Expectations Part Four: My Process for Contrary Game Design

In case you missed them: “Part One: Mechanics Are Clichés Too!” “Part Two: Where’d This Come from, Anyway? Some Case Studies” "Part Three: Please Don't Break...

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TKF

Feb 15, 2016
1 min

[Firewatch] Delilah: Not the Co-Conspirator You’re Looking For

Over on Tumblr, I wonder why players need to make Firewatch's Delilah a co-conspirator: "Firewatch plays with several tropes found in game stories and other ...

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TKF

Feb 10, 2016
6 min

Contrary Game Design: Subverting Player Expectations Part Three: Please Don’t Break the Player

In case you missed them: “Part One: Mechanics Are Clichés Too!” “Part Two: Where’d This Come from, Anyway? Some Case Studies” Potential Problems with Subvers...

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TKF

Feb 3, 2016
8 min

Contrary Game Design: Subverting Player Expectations Part Two: Where’d This Come From, Anyway? Some

In case you missed it: "Part One: Mechanics Are Clichés Too!" I first became interested in what I’m defining as contrary game design when playing the followi...

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TKF

Jan 28, 2016
4 min

Contrary Game Design: Subverting Player Expectations Part One: Mechanics Are Clichés Too!

This post series is based on a report I wrote at Project Horseshoe. I’m not providing concrete answers here. Hopefully, I’m exploring design in a way that wi...

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TKF

Jan 26, 2016
2 min

The X-Files Season 10: First Impressions

The following is based on “My Struggle.” I haven’t seen the second episode yet. Two decades ago, before “Winter is coming” and superhero shows (on network TV...

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