Since "narrative legos" seems to be a, um, hot topic, I figured I'd post a thread on the procedural story systems of Weird West. It would be a little bit of a shame if that term is a bit tarnished - it's more descriptive than somethings like "storylets" to a non-developer as to how procedural narrative functions.

A little post holiday down time means it's time for a sequel to this thread (because everyone likes sequels right?), on using tagging for better gameplay implementation:

https://twitter.com/plushapo/status/1470852392929271808?s=20

In the first thread I glossed over a few of the ingredients in the "secret recipe" of making tagging work to really transform your workflow to build stuff more easily.

Now that Weird West dev is slowly but surely calming down a bit I'd thought I'd start some design/tech threads... The first is about how we can better build game worlds for storytelling - embodied games, where you're a person or thing running around a world (3D mostly but some of this applies to a 2D too). Not all games certainly, but a lot.