{"id":12884,"date":"2018-02-15T00:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/314678"},"modified":"2018-02-15T00:33:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T00:33:00","slug":"video-storytelling-strategies-that-will-get-players-to-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/15\/video-storytelling-strategies-that-will-get-players-to-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Storytelling strategies that will get players to care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a successful launch\u00a0on iOS devices, the writing team behind\u00a0<em>High School Story<\/em> knew that in order to keep and retain\u00a0a dedicated player base, they had to come up with a strategy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When tasked with creating\u00a0an ongoing interactive narrative, how should writers go about ensuring\u00a0players will stick around?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In this 2014 GDC session, Pixelberry Studios&#8217; Kara Loo and Royal McGraw explain <em>High School Story&#8217;s<\/em>\u00a0combination\u00a0of using drama, romance, comedy and cliffhangers to drive user engagement and retention.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow writers may appreciate that they can now\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gPV0qmyGs-o\">watch the talk completely free via the official GDC YouTube channel!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to this presentation, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/\">GDC Vault<\/a>\u00a0and its accompanying\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ\/feed\">YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC\u00a0already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/inquiry\/\">a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/demo\/\">GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>. Finally, current subscribers with access issues can\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/contact_us.php\">contact GDC Vault technical support<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent UBM Americas.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a successful launch\u00a0on iOS devices, the writing team behind\u00a0High School Story knew that in order to keep and retain\u00a0a dedicated player base, they had to come up with a strategy.\u00a0 When tasked with creating\u00a0an ongoing interactive narrative, how should writers go about ensuring\u00a0players will stick around?\u00a0 In this 2014 GDC session, Pixelberry Studios&#8217; Kara [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}