{"id":358,"date":"2018-08-16T00:41:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T23:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/?p=358"},"modified":"2018-08-07T01:25:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T00:25:49","slug":"so-you-want-to-be-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/2018\/08\/16\/so-you-want-to-be-a-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"So you want to be a writer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/how-blockbuster-games-are-written\/\">How blockbuster games are written<\/a> is a look at how narrative design is used create the plot of AAA games.<\/p>\n<p>A great story can carry a poor game and a bad story can destroy a good game.\u00a0 Take for example Portal which is a fairly standard puzzle game but the story lifts it to a whole new level.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of great games out there with great stories, often you find them in the last place you look. However, you could start <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slant.co\/topics\/6342\/~games-on-steam-with-a-rich-story\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How blockbuster games are written is a look at how narrative design is used create the plot of AAA games. A great story can carry a poor game and a bad story can destroy a good game.\u00a0 Take for example Portal which is a fairly standard puzzle game but the story lifts it to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/2018\/08\/16\/so-you-want-to-be-a-writer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So you want to be a writer?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420488,6468],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-games-development"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/CHSCGDGD\/uploads\/sites\/739\/2017\/05\/GreyNPATrans.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSCGDGD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}