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Game Writer Course: Write your Videogame
Rating: 4.2 out of 5(13 ratings)
110 students

Game Writer Course: Write your Videogame

All the basics to become a real game writer, from the plot to the script of your videogame
Created byNicola Mari
Last updated 3/2022
English
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What you'll learn

  • You will learn all the theoreticals and practicals basics of writing a videogame (story, dialogues, storytelling, script)
  • You will be able to write a script specifically for games
  • You will be able to write your videogame and to present it to game software houses
  • At the end of the course, you can transform your passion in a work

Course content

1 section5 lectures2h 11m total length
  • The Three Act Structure of a Story37:22

    We start from the division of a story and from the making of a story macrostructure for our game.

  • Character Characterization and Narrative Arcs32:11

    You will learn how to write the Character Sheet for each character of your game and how to make a real narrative arc for your characters.

  • Dialogues and Cutscenes28:13

    You will learn how to write game dialogues and the art of storytelling in your game.

  • Script and Storyboard Document28:10

    You will learn how to write a game script, with an additional storyboard. Also, you will learn how to fill all the necessary documents needed to present your game to game developers.

  • Extra: Practical Lecture of Game Script Writing5:45

    A final practical lecture about how to actually write a script specifically for gaming.

Requirements

  • None

Description

As part of this Game Writer Course you will develop useful techniques to write and structure a story. In particular, attention will be focused on the storytelling implemented in videogames and how to write a script suitable for gaming, including cutscenes. Upon completion of the course, you will be able to produce a professional script for a videogame and propose it to videogame production companies. In addition, you will have the basics to work independently as a game writer to develop your own script (script) and you will be able to present your script to game development companies or work with them on the development of the plot/script of a videogame.

The course is structured in a consequential way, starting from how a story is divided and the creation of the macrostructure of the plot of the game, and then moving on how to write the characters (their personalities, their psychology, their ambitions), and then to learn in detail how to write dialogues and cutscenes (therefore the principles of game storytelling), up to the writing of the actual script (the game script), containing everything we need to define the design of our game.


The Game Writer Course Program includes the following lectures:


1 - The Three Act Structure of a Story

2 - Character Characterization and Narrative Arcs

3 - Dialogues and Cutscenes

4 – Script and Storyboard Document

5 – Extra: Practical Lecture of Game Script Writing


Who this course is for:

  • This course is for who want to write (or even to develop) his own videogame.