Narrative Structure and The Quiet Year.
We recorded this episode the day before Fallout 4 was released, and Zack, understandably, is nearly melting down. We talk about Buried Without Ceremony's The Quiet Year, a fantastic quick-start game that lets you build a story and a future for a post-apocalyptic community with a paper, playing cards, a few dice, and an $8 PDF, all in just a few hours.
We also discuss narrative structure — the ways in which being open-world, on-rails, or level-by-level changes the way in which a video game's story is told and its world is built. We might even make it through the show without bringing up Mass Effect — you'll have to listen to find out!
Discussed today:
The Quiet Year, Buried Without Ceremony
http://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year/
Hosts
Ben Lee
Chris Loe
Zack McQueen
Editor / Producer
Ben Lee
Executive Producers
Mike Fatum
Jarys Maragopoulos
Logo Design
Sarah Wiener (sarahwiener-art.com)
Theme
"Crunk Knight", Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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