{"id":717,"date":"2021-09-10T19:04:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T18:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/leonpaullynn\/?p=717"},"modified":"2024-11-28T13:52:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T12:52:14","slug":"commercial-game-gloomhaven-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/2021\/09\/10\/commercial-game-gloomhaven-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"[Commercial Game] Gloomhaven Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gloomhaven | Gameplay Overview Trailer\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-SGDEP-zFHo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Gameplay Trailer for <em>Gloomhaven Digital<\/em>. Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flamingfowlstudios.com\/\">Flaming Fowl Studios<\/a><br>Content Warning: Fantasy Violence &amp; Monsters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/widget\/780290\/\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"646\" height=\"190\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Gloomhaven Digital<\/em> is a digital adaptation of the smash-hit, high-fantasy table-top roleplaying game, where you take control of a band of mercenaries, and explore the dangers and riches within the lands of Gloomhaven through a lightly-branching narrative.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The board game is one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gloomhaven#:~:text=The%20campaign%20raised%20almost%20$13,mercenaries%20are%20struggling%20to%20protect.\">most successful of all time<\/a>,  and this adaptation produced for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asmodee.co.uk\/\">Asmodee<\/a> is also <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/pc\/gloomhaven\">highly regarded.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From August 2020 to September 2021, I was contracted as an Assitant Writer with Flaming Fowl Studios, on their development of this game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this project, I:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Proofed and managed all the writing of new (and copying in existing) text for the game in all areas, including both narrative and GUI text. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wrote\/co-wrote dialogue, world-building and story for the majority of the &#8220;Guildmaster Mode&#8221; missions, a new campaign taking place in the newly-created sister region to Gloomhaven &#8216;Demonsgate&#8217;, alongside Flaming Fowl&#8217;s Creative Director (and with direction from Asmodee).\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This totalled 43 missions from Chapter 2 through Chapter 7 of the Guildmaster story, and required me to develop lore that meshed with <em>Gloomhaven<\/em>&#8216;s existing lore around each new location visited with only a map location and a name for a prompt. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Re-designed 8 original Campaign scenarios to various degrees for various reasons during development, and redesigned the &#8216;Town Records&#8217; side story to allow it to function through voice-over rather than as a physical book.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Additionally assisted level building\/QA, using Unity and the in-game Level Editor to digitally re-create map tiles and campaign scenarios from the original board game, then playtest them extensively. I had to get creative with the existing Level Editor tools to replicate special rules and the like, because development time on new ones was little, precious, and expensive. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The writing itself involved discussing story arcs and ideas with the creative team, drafting and editing raw text in a live word processor with the creative team, and then moving this text into a spreadsheet for implementation into the build via YML tags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For text-only samples of my writing from this project, you can look at my <a href=\"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/writing-samples\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"473\">writing samples<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/leonpaullynn\/contact\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2\">contact me<\/a> for more. A video playthrough of two of my missions by fans in the community are available below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gloomhaven Guildmaster E069 - The Harrower Infestor\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GpvN0oQx23o?start=2197&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A video playthrough of &#8216;Stuck in The Mud&#8217;, one of the story missions I wrote for Chapter 3 of <em>Gloomhaven Digital<\/em>&#8216;s original Guildmaster Mode <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Defeating the final Gloomhaven Digital Guildmaster boss\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qKMbLd6F--w?start=142&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A video playthrough of &#8216;It&#8217;s All Just A Game&#8217;, the final boss mission I wrote for Chapter 7 of <em>Gloomhaven Digital<\/em>&#8216;s original Guildmaster Mode<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gloomhaven Digital is a digital adaptation of the smash-hit, high-fantasy table-top roleplaying game, where you take control of a band of mercenaries,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/2021\/09\/10\/commercial-game-gloomhaven-digital\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Commercial Game] Gloomhaven Digital<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":680,"comment_status":"open","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":[160,147,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial-games","category-portfolio","category-portfolio-archives"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GH_Thumb2.jpg?fit=987%2C739&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}