Edwin McRae's Blog: Narrative Design for Indies

In summary, Edwin believes that effectiveness of ChaptGPT4o and Sudowrite, at the time of writing (04 August, 2024), are subject to the context of the desired outcome, undermining process-oriented artistic creative writing whilst empowering product-oriented commercial creative writing. 

Genre: Short Story, Satire, Activist Thriller. When a marketing executive witnesses the environmental devastation caused by her employer, Coca-Cola, she sparks a global, decentralized movement to topple the corporate giant.

Narrative Designer, Edwin McRae, explores how the process of creating a lore bible or archive can be more valuable than the end result.

An insight from narrative designer, Edwin McRae, on how to design the "fun" into your video game world.

How to create an impactful portfolio that shows off your game writing and narrative design skills.

Edwin considers NVIDIA and InWorld's Covert Protocol announcement and the potential impact of AI NPCs on human creativity in the space of character-driven game experiences.

Narrative Designer, Edwin McRae, describes the effect AI tools have on his creative writing process.

Looking at Harmony Square makes Edwin McRae (Narrative Designer) wonder how narrative design could be further used to combat the nefarious practices of narrative warfare that divide and conquer us.

Summing up a tough year in the game dev biz, and introducing a cathartic Christmas story!

Lore! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing... unless it's important to gameplay or characters.