{"id":51793,"date":"2018-10-01T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/327703"},"modified":"2018-10-01T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T21:26:00","slug":"video-crafting-the-narrative-of-reigns-her-majesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/01\/video-crafting-the-narrative-of-reigns-her-majesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Crafting the narrative of Reigns: Her Majesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What makes a great queen?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one of the\u00a0tricky questions British indie Nerial tried to answer with\u00a0<em>Reigns: Her Majesty<\/em>, the award-winning follow-up to the studio&#8217;s popular swipe-em-up kingdom management sim\u00a0<em>Reigns<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Much of\u00a0<em>Her Majesty<\/em>&#8216;s appeal lies in its craftily-written characters and scenes, so it&#8217;s nice that at GDC 2018\u00a0<em>Her Majesty\u00a0<\/em>writer Leigh Alexander (a former Gamasutra\u00a0editor) took to the stage to share her thoughts on how to write women in power well.<\/p>\n<p>It was a short, packed presentation which offered curious devs a deep dive into both the technical realities (spreadsheets!) and creative challenges that come with writing a lighthearted game about the political tightrope that women in power must walk. If you missed seeing it live this year, don&#8217;t miss your chance to now watch Alexander&#8217;s talk for free\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ\">via the GDC YouTube channel<\/a>!\u00a0<\/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>Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent company Informa.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes a great queen? That&#8217;s one of the\u00a0tricky questions British indie Nerial tried to answer with\u00a0Reigns: Her Majesty, the award-winning follow-up to the studio&#8217;s popular swipe-em-up kingdom management sim\u00a0Reigns. Much of\u00a0Her Majesty&#8216;s appeal lies in its craftily-written characters and scenes, so it&#8217;s nice that at GDC 2018\u00a0Her Majesty\u00a0writer Leigh Alexander (a former Gamasutra\u00a0editor) took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51793","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\/51793","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=51793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}