{"id":302,"date":"2021-04-05T12:09:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T11:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsallagame.com\/leonpaullynn\/?p=302"},"modified":"2022-08-01T23:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T22:02:18","slug":"portfolio-addition-game-writings-no-game-why-interactive-writing-isnt-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/2021\/04\/05\/portfolio-addition-game-writings-no-game-why-interactive-writing-isnt-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"[Portfolio Addition] Game Writing&#8217;s No Game: Why Interactive Writing Isn&#8217;t Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/gamewriting.jpg?resize=768%2C512&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/gamewriting.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/gamewriting.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/gamewriting.jpg?resize=507%2C338&amp;ssl=1 507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Cover image courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surreynewwritersfest.com\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Surrey New Writers Festival<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This article outlines the intricate nature of narrative design in video gaming, and why writing something intended to be interactive in any capacity is much more challenging than people seem to think. I wrote it for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surreynewwritersfest.com\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Surrey New Writers Festival<\/a> 2021 social media campaign a few weeks ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a topic I will delve more into in the future, but for now, you can see the portfolio update <a href=\"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/leonpaullynn\/portfolio\/article-game-writings-no-game-why-interactive-writing-isnt-simple\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article outlines the intricate nature of narrative design in video gaming, and why writing something intended to be interactive in any<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/2021\/04\/05\/portfolio-addition-game-writings-no-game-why-interactive-writing-isnt-simple\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Portfolio Addition] Game Writing&#8217;s No Game: Why Interactive Writing Isn&#8217;t Simple<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[106,135,53,111,118,119],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portfolio-additions","tag-article","tag-games","tag-games-writing","tag-opinion-article","tag-surrey-new-writers-festival","tag-writing-help"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/gamewriting.jpg?fit=768%2C512&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}