Narrative and Puzzles in Games

Important Story Elements:

Protagonists

Conflict

Resolution of the Conflict

Moral

People are important to story, not objects. Objects may be important but only because they mean something to the people in the story. A good example of this is the ring of lord of the rings.

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Every story has conflict, sometimes direct, and sometimes indirect.

Direct conflict is between obvious "enemies" such as teachers and students, or two factions at war.

Indirect conflict is more subtle, such as humans and technology.

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Puzzles in Story

Puzzles are not a necessary part of the story, however they do work best when they move the story's narrative forward.

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Spacial Thinking

It is not important to get into too much detail when showing distance. The distances separating the important/interesting parts of the story can be simply cut out of the scene, to only show the interesting parts.