Hannah Nicklin

Stewart Lee’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate

Familial relationships do often adhere to a stereotype or format, but to turn from stereotype to character, consider how you will complicate your characters, and demonstrate that through dialogue-driven exposition.

Choice and agency are part of the material of storytelling in games – and you can make decisions against the grain of players’ expectations for better storytelling.

Characterisation can be derived from disagreement, silence, and lack of effect.

What’s important is that the player is acting, leaning in, and playing ‘as’ the character very often.

David Edgar, How Plays Work