It’s time to get MEDIEVAL with our guests Zoe (currently an Associate Narrative Designer at Obsidian Games working on unannounced projects, and she is also the cohost of the Maniculum Podcast) and Franciska (currently the Narrative Lead on Around for Primal Game Studios, and also the Senior Narrative Designer on Ayna: Shattered Truth for Designmatic. And previously she was a Game Writer on Ori and the Will of the Wisps for Moon Studios, as well as a Narrative Designer on their unannounced ARPG)! They join us to talk about ousting J.R.R. Tolkien as the top fantasy writer of all time, untapped medieval stories that people in games should be thinking about, parallels between medievalism and game design, manuscript culture, how you balance between explaining things for players and letting them fill in the blanks themselves, would they rather tell stories with dialogue or without, are there any books or talks or resources they go back to a lot when working on a game, how to give good criticism and best piece of feedback they’ve gotten, how they think of the player’s active role in the story when they’re writing, what sort of imagery do they find most evocative in horror and medieval literature, and MORE! MUCH MORE!
Our Guests on the Internet
Zoe has no twitter, but check out The Maniculum Podcast!
Franciska's Twitch, Twitter, and check out Around!
Stuff We Talked About
The Maniculum Podcast
The Witcher 3
Franciska's Undergrad and Postgrad Theses
Táin Bó Cúailnge
The Metrical Charms
The Last of Us Part II
Outer Wilds
Return of the Obra Dinn
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Horizon: Forbidden West
Hades
GOBELINS Youtube Channel
Like Stories of Old Youtube Channel
How to be a Great DM Youtube Channel
Game Maker’s Toolkit Youtube Channel
Middle English Compendium
The Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinary Literate by Eugene Ehrlich
Master Lists - The Maniculum Podcast
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