[arg_discuss] Tools for ARG developers

[David Varela]

You might be interested in the story planning section of the Perplex City
retrospective. It includes flowcharts of specific parts of the game - these
were vital for planning and running live events - but also has documents
relating to characters and the long-term story.

http://seasonone.perplexcitystories.com/story.html

We used OmniGraffle for charts and Google Calendar for scheduling.

When planning anything, you need to think in terms of micro and macro.
Trying to do micro planning on a macro scale can lead to insanity and a
blizzard of sticky notes. Have a broad plan that everyone understands.
Schedule the key events. Then start filling in the gaps.

David



On Nov 28, 2007 8:36 PM, <despain at quantumcontent.com> wrote:


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> In every other writing discipline, people who want to improve their craft

> can read screenplays or novels or shortstories etc. written by successful

> creators in the field, but in gamewriting the basic documents writers

> produce are very hard to find, especially for newcomers. This leaves a lot

> of writers re-inventing the wheel.

>

> If anyone has ARG planning documents to share, we would love to include

> them in our online script library. This may be a more comfortable way of

> sharing the information, rather than sending it out to a mailing list.

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