Adam Dolin & Jolie Menzel

It’s been an embarrassingly long time but we are BACK! Again!!! And this time we’ve brought returning guests Adam Dolin and Jolie Menzel to discuss breaking in, how they define narrative design, the differences between creative directors who come from narrative versus other displiclines, the three c’s, can game writers exist without knowing narrative design, favorite narrative tools, what makes a good opening to a game, tutorials, letting players have choices where the results lead to them missing lots of content, bad habits they’ve noticed in younger writers/narrative designers, the future of the industry, pieces of media they go back to get reinvigorate/inspired, the themes they’re always writing into their stories, stuff they’re always editing out of their writing, how to write good dialogue, and maybe one or two other things. It’s great! Our Guests on the Internet Jolie's Linkedin . Adam's Linkedin and BlueSky , and his ELVTR class starts in April! Stuff We Discussed Larian Cinematics: A Top-Down Look at Our Bottom-Up Approach in 'Baldur's Gate 3' Jolie's 3C's of Game Design Presentation Twine Visual Studio Code Highland 2 (FYI looks like a Highland 3 launch is imminent) Ink YarnSpinner Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Pentiment Against the Storm UFO 50 Balatro Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast The Callisto Protocol God of War (2018) Detroit: Become Human The Darkness 2 Another Crab’s Treasure The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist by Brandon Keogh Sonic Adventure 2 Hank confronts Walter in Breaking Bad Barry The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr Burn Notice Clerks Dogma Nick's Dialogue Playlist Game Narrative Summit: Building Rome in a Day: A Sociological Storytelling Primer Tomorrow , and Tomorrow , and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Futurama Commentaries Tetris Forever Listen To a Movie Script Lock BlueSky Our Theme Music was composed by Isabella Ness , and our logo was created by Lily Nishita . The vampire sucking noise was created by Robinhood76 .

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Adam Dolin & Jolie Menzel is an episode from Script Lock by Max Folkman.

This episode is 01:35:14 long.

This episode was published on Feb 3, 2025.

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