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Sweet Baby Inc. Doesn’t Do What Some Gamers Think It Does
6.3.2024
Sweet Baby Inc. is not the largest narrative design company in the games industry. Nor is it solely responsible for the characters and stories in recent high-profile releases like Alan Wake 2, God of War Ragnarok, and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. But good luck telling some gamers...
Unity Announces Big 'AI' Plans, Developers Have Concerns
28.6.2023
Video games engine provider Unity announced earlier today the introduction of two new machine-learning platforms, one of which in particular has developers and artists asking questions of the company that, at time of publishing, have yet to be answered.Read more
Do Not Play Obsidian’s Killer Narrative Game While Hungry
15.11.2022
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Video Games Are Giving Up On The Idea That We Can Save The World
1.11.2022
The summer of 2022 was one for the record books. Wildfires raged across North America and Europe, tens of thousands died in brutal heatwaves, water in reservoirs dried up revealing bodies long forgotten, and flooding displaced millions. All of this is awful, and it seems likely that it will only...
Frosthaven Is Rethinking Its Fantasy 'Races'
24.5.2021
Gloomhaven sequel Frosthaven isn’t even out yet and it’s already tracking to be one of the biggest board games of the last decade, so it’s very cool seeing the way the game is going to taking a different approach to the way its “races” are depicted compared to more traditional fantasy...
Deglobalization and Other Narrative Violations, Feat. Geoff Lewis
26.5.2020
In a world where conventional wisdom has never been more up for grabs, one VC explains why there is opportunity in alternative narratives
Bitcoin, Stablecoins, DeFi and Privacy: How COVID-19 Is Changing Key Crypto Narratives
30.3.2020
How the once-in-a-generation COVID-19 pandemic is shifting the way with think and talk about different parts of the crypto industry - from bitcoin to DeFi to stablecoins
Narrative Watch: The Future of Crypto FUD
28.1.2020
When markets get hot, new FUD emerges. @nlw looks at three categories of FUD most likely to come up in the next bull market