Desynchronized: Player Agency & Narrative Stakes in Assassin's Creed Unity
Prompt: What is "Bad Writing"? You hear it all the time , "the bad writing in this game breaks my immersion!" But is it just writing? When narrative presentation goes beyond words & into the moment to moment gameplay, immersion can be much harder to maintain. Join us as we explore five mistakes narrative designers make that objectively* worsen the player's experience. Oh, and Counterbot hijacks the channel... probably for the worse. Gameservatory is a (gargantuan) solo effort. Thank you for your support! https://ko-fi.com/gameservatory 00:00 Title & Essay Prompt 00:15 Preamble 02:22 Fumble Your Introduction 07:38 Highlight The Player's Lack of Agency 15:12 Unbalance The Stakes of Side Missions vs Main Mission 17:51 Spare The Game World Any Change in Plot 22:14 Downplay The Player's Effort to The Point of Meaninglessness 29:31 Credits & Outtakes *Okay, I'm being a bit indulgent here. BUT I feel the critiques presented are a net negative to almost all players experiencing them... so I'm linguistically "rounding up" :P Works Cited - Hocking, Clint. “Ludonarrative Dissonance in Bioshock.” Clicknothing.Typepad.Com, 7 Oct. 2007, clicknothing.typepad.com/click_nothing/2007/10/ludonarrative-d.html. Resource Attribution - Andromeda Galaxy https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noa... "Apple Macbook Retina Cycles" by matpompili Downloaded from http://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/..." Glass for eevee - Glass 2.4 + Caustics Effect" by CG Vertex Downloaded from https://www.blendswap.com/blend/25759 "Knittr - Procedural Knitwear Shader" by Simon Thommes Downloaded from https://gumroad.com/l/Knittr "Sneaky Snooper" by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... "Evil Plan" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
