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Johnnemann Nordhagen

Narrative Design 202: More About Storylets

In the last piece I posted, I talked about three different styles of interactive writing. I want to focus on the one of these that is the…

2 min readNov 4, 2023

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Narrative Design 202: More About Storylets

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Johnnemann Nordhagen

Narrative Design 102: Interactive Story Techniques

We make stories in video games because, probably, something about the idea of a participatory medium entices us.

4 min readSep 23, 2023

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Narrative Design 102: Interactive Story Techniques

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Johnnemann Nordhagen

Narrative Design 101 — Practical Narrative Design

Writing a high-level narrative design doc based on constraints, plus a look at narrative design decisions in a published game

18 min readMay 12, 2023

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Narrative Design 101 — Practical Narrative Design

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Johnnemann Nordhagen

Narrative Design 101 — Game Analysis, Plus Some Tools

Introduction to a few easy free tools for making narrative games, plus analysis of several great games

6 min readMay 12, 2023

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Narrative Design 101 — Game Analysis, Plus Some Tools

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Narrative Design 101 — What is Narrative Design?

(If you haven’t read the introduction to this series here, it will offer some valuable context).

15 min readMay 10, 2023

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Narrative Design 101 — What is Narrative Design?

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Johnnemann Nordhagen

Narrative Design 101 —Introduction

A few months ago, I was contacted by someone from Futuregames, a game development school here in Stockholm, who was looking for an…

4 min readMay 10, 2023

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Narrative Design 101 —Introduction

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Johnnemann Nordhagen

Notes on the Design and Production of Where the Water Tastes Like Wine

Today marks five years since Where the Water Tastes Like Wine was first released, on PC (to be followed later by versions on Playstation…

6 min readFeb 28, 2023

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Notes on the Design and Production of Where the Water Tastes Like Wine

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Johnnemann Nordhagen

Postmortem: The Museum of Mechanics: Lockpicking

Having failed to learn any lessons at all from my last postmortem, I’d like to talk about the experience of developing and releasing the…

9 min readFeb 8, 2022

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Postmortem: The Museum of Mechanics: Lockpicking

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Johnnemann Nordhagen

Storytelling With A Star

In one of my past lives, and one of my alternate futures, I was an AI programmer. On BioShock 2 and The Bureau: XCOM Declassified I made…

5 min readOct 20, 2021

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Storytelling With A Star

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Johnnemann Nordhagen

Steam and Discoverability

This is not about advice for getting your game discovered! This is a philosophical argument against the way the platform works right now.

5 min readJul 2, 2021

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Johnnemann Nordhagen

Johnnemann Nordhagen

Johnnemann has been making games for decades. He has worked on titles such as Bioshock, Gone Home, and Where the Water Tastes Like Wine

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