One of the major difficulty in developing Don't Make Love resides in the writing. How do you write a dialogue if you don't know what the other character will say?

Spaces tell stories. And video games enhance this possibility. Spatial interaction is one of the main element that constitutes the game experience. Learning how to build an environment which is not a mere background is an essential part of game narration.

Why indie sperimental games always struggle? Why often the gamers community doesn't even recognize them as games? The case of Tale of Tales' Sunset could be a good starting point to have a global vision on these issues.

This is a post mortem of a game never realized and the second and final part of an overview about performative storytelling. If you want to know the design decisions to take in order to tell a story through gameplay, this post is what you need. Survey included.

We went at the Svilupparty: this is a little sum up of our experience.

How to tell a story through mechanics? Performative storytelling is a concept that could be an answer to this question, discover in this article how it works and how it compares to traditional ways to tell a story.