The Number One Educational Resource for the Game Industry
| Session Name: | Writing the Romance-able NPC: ICING the Content Cake |
| Speaker(s): | Heidi McDonald |
| Company Name(s): | Schell Games |
| Track / Format: | Game Narrative Summit |
| Overview: | Heidi McDonald offers a model for writing successful NPC romances in single-player RPGs,developed by examining scholarly works on gaming, writing and psychology, and using survey data collected from over 500 gamers regarding their experiences with NPC romance and their real-life behaviors and attractions. McDonald calls the model "ICING" as NPC romance is to the single-player RPG what icing is on a cake: a delicious addition. Make your NPC romance writing more delicious! |
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