Stark Holborn
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Stark Holborn is the author of the Factus Sequence, the Triggernometry series and the groundbreaking digital serial, Nunslinger. Her fiction has been nominated for the British Fantasy Awards, the BSFA Awards and the New Media Writing Prize. Stark is a visiting lecturer in Interactive Narrative at Glasgow School of Art and is currently lead writer on SF detective game, Shadows of Doubt and a contributing writer on cyberpunk slice of life sim, Nivalis.
Stark Holborn is speaking at the following session/s
Murder She… Modularized? Authored Narrative in a Proc-Gen World
Want to make use of procedurally-generated written content without sacrificing creative intention? This session covers how, in immersive noir detective sim Shadows of Doubt, we tackled the challenge of combining authored narrative with proc-gen systems to create compelling and dynamic emergent gameplay. It explores how we took the radical decision to abandon scripted missions in favour of open world play, before offering practical insight into powerful tools and techniques – like a bespoke dialogue system and narrative modularization – used to create emergent narrative in a fully-simulated sandbox world.
Session Takeaway
- Writing for open-world and sandbox settings
- Establishing game lore without a traditional narrative structure
- Tips for combining procedural generation with scripted content
- Using modular systems to create emergent storytelling in sandbox simulations
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