A publication dedicated to exploring interactive storytelling.

Tweet This is the first series for the NDN Narrator, “The Narrator Dialogs”; with it we seek to put a face on those who are making interactive narrative design a force to be reckoned with. Today’s dialog is with Raphael van Lierop, Narrative Design Lead on an unannounced project at Ubisoft Montreal. Raphael comes to [...]

Tweet This is the first series for the NDN Narrator, “The Narrator Dialogs”; with it we seek to put a face on those who are making interactive narrative design a force to be reckoned with. Today’s dialog is with Sini Downing, Agency Director for Sidelines a UK based talent agency for game writers and narrative [...]

Tweet Today’s creator is Jeff Gomez CEO and President of Starlight Runner Entertainment. Jeff remains hard at work tackling the nut and bolts of making transmedia stories a reality, or should I say, “maximizing the value of entertainment properties and consumer brands by preparing them for extension across multiple media platforms.”  Working on everything from [...]

Tweet This is the first series for the NDN Narrator, “The Narrator Dialogs”; with it we seek to put a face on those who are making interactive narrative design a force to be reckoned with. Today’s dialog is with Corvus Elrod, a writer, designer, performer and deep thinker. On his “Man bytes blog” he hosts [...]

Tweet Narrative Designer is a role in contemporary video game development first seen in 2006 when the video game publisher THQ began hiring for the position I wrote based on talks with THQ Canada.  While the strict definition may vary from team to team, and production to production, the core of this role is to [...]

Tweet Interactive Narrative Design is a craft that meets at the apex of ludology, narratoloy and game design; turning the conjoining into functional interactive entertainment development methodologies. Ludology being the study of play that has become very fashionable in the game design community within the past 2 decades. Narratology is the theory of narratives, of [...]

Tweet The NDE has moved and is now part of the Narrative Designer’s Network; the change was rather easy, but some details remain scrambled. Please forgive any formatting errors or broken links you may experience, in the coming weeks I will be be updating the site and fixing problems as quickly as I can. Thank [...]

Tweet The Narrative Designer’s Network is for those that find themselves between the blurred lines of interactive entertainment writing and design; a group dedicated to support fellow Narrative Designers, foster discussion, and to evangelize the burgeoning craft of Interactive Narrative Design. Interactive Narrative Design is a new breed of design that is evolving into unknown [...]