Why Wildermyth's Best Story Wasn't Written By Anyone (Patreon)

Why Wildermyth's Best Story Wasn't Written By Anyone

Check out HeavyEyed! https://www.youtube.com/c/heavyeyed Support the channel on Patreon!: https://www.patreon.com/ArchitectofGames Follow me on twitter!: https://twitter.com/Thefearalcarrot Videogames are a storytelling medium, everyone knows that - but unlike their contemporaries, they allow us to write our own stories too - by interacting with the systems and mechanics of games, we can tell gripping stories of survival against the odds, create epic rivalries between us and NPCs, and epic quests starring heroes of our own creation. So... how can games do this? Well, one of the best ways is through a particular game design ethos called permanence - where games remember your actions and allow you to build on them, not just over the course of a single level, but an entire playthrough - and there's no better example of it than a little game called Wildermyth. As a result, the Architect has spent the last few weeks making friends with orcs, delving into old addictions and apologizing to dragons for that big misunderstanding, all in an effort to understand how games can create stories not by writing them - but by giving us space to write them ourselves... You Saw: Wildermyth - 2021 Shadow of War - 2017 Spelunky 2 - 2020 DOOM Eternal - 2020 Prodeus - Early Access Super Mario 3d World - 2013 Super Mario Galaxy - 2007 Humankind - Early Access Slipways - 2021 Dark Souls 2 - 2014 Resident Evil 2 Remake - 2019 Pokemon Fire Red - 2004 Pokemon Sword - 2019 Sid Meir's Civilization 6 - 2016 Sid Meir's Civilization - 1991 Donkey Kong - 1981 Dragon's lair - 1983 Galaxians - 1979 paperboy - 1984 Defender - 1981 Metal Slug 3 - 2000 Gauntlet - 1985 Hades - 2020 Dark Souls - 2012 The Matrix - 2000 Tales of Maj'Eyal - 2012 Skul the hero slayer - 2021 FTL - 2012 Dicey Dungeons - 2019 Nowhere Prophet - 2019 The Long Dark - 2014 Hunt: Showdown - 2018 XCOM: UFO Defence - 1994 XCOM 2 - 2016 Star Renegades - 2020 Assasins' Creed Odyssey - 2018 Shadow of Mordor - 2014 The Fermi Paradox - Early Access Death Stranding - 2019 No Man's Sky - 2016 Among Us - 2018 Fallout New Vegas - 2010 It Takes Two - 2021