Narrative Control

This episode Justin and I talk about what we’ve learned from video games and how we can draw inspiration from them and learn from their pitfalls. Hosts: Sean Nittner and Justin Evans Length: 29:49 Show Notes[00:28] Introduction to the show – Inspiration from video games[00:40] Some great discussion on our boards about conflict resolution here and here.[01:05] Format of the show, inspiration, pitfalls and some personal stories.[01:29] RPGPodcasts.com Promo[01:37] Justin’s thrilling adventure.[02:52] Sean’s protest. Video games don’t have the story or role-playing that tabletop RPGs do.[04:00] Sean’s use of images, lore, etc from World of Warcraft in his Burning Warcraft game.[05:00] Erik Woodbury’s LARP: Peace at Arathi Basin.  Video game setting, using the strengths of a LARP.[06:15] Comparing the guessed budget of Feng Shui and Grand Theft Auto.  [07:34] Level design as an analog for quests.[08:17] Set pieces in games, the main encounters.[08:56] The boss fight.  A spotlighted encounter that required fightin