{"id":55464,"date":"2018-10-16T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/328760"},"modified":"2018-10-16T22:18:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T22:18:00","slug":"video-the-narrative-design-of-reigns-her-majesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/16\/video-the-narrative-design-of-reigns-her-majesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The narrative design of Reigns: Her Majesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the sequel to popular mobile kingdom management swipe-em-up <em>Reigns<\/em>,\u00a0the team wanted to push past &#8220;Yass Queen&#8221; and &#8220;go girl!&#8221; for <em>Reigns: Her Majesty<\/em>. So how did they go about tackling that challenge?<\/p>\n<p>In this GDC 2018 talk, writer Leigh Alexander (and former\u00a0<em>Gamasutra<\/em>\u00a0editor) shares her narrative design process around the tricky political tightrope of women&#8217;s power, especially when it has to be both violent and funny.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s\u00a0an insightful talk that&#8217;s definitely worth watching, so developers\u00a0shouldn&#8217;t miss the\u00a0opportunity to do so now that it&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qiV4Um77bnc\">freely available on 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><em><strong>Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent UBM Americas.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the sequel to popular mobile kingdom management swipe-em-up Reigns,\u00a0the team wanted to push past &#8220;Yass Queen&#8221; and &#8220;go girl!&#8221; for Reigns: Her Majesty. So how did they go about tackling that challenge? In this GDC 2018 talk, writer Leigh Alexander (and former\u00a0Gamasutra\u00a0editor) shares her narrative design process around the tricky political tightrope of women&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55464","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\/55464","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=55464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}