Key points discussed

This session primarily focused on the significance of storytelling in gaming and its influence on engagement. The speaker highlighted how storytelling plays a crucial role in capturing players' interest and emphasized the need for games to have meaningful narratives to avoid disappointing both players and creators. Personal background and interests in storytelling were also discussed, with the speaker's unexpected journey into storytelling elucidated, including their transition from engineering to founding a role-playing game company in France. They discovered that stories created by players significantly impacted the gaming experience. Moreover, the introduction to the "Thoughtful Thinkers" podcast and the guest, Kurt McLung, was detailed, along with discussions about Kurt's approach to storytelling, role-playing games, and community-driven stories.

The session also delved into the decline of the gaming industry with the advent of the internet and the speaker's transition to paper games and role-playing game development. Their love for role-playing games led them to a career in video game writing, where they specialized in script doctoring, lead writing, and world design. The importance of storytelling in human culture and its influence on history, as well as the speaker's transition from a project management engineer to a storyteller, were also explored. Furthermore, technical difficulties were encountered multiple times, but the speaker returned, addressing questions from participants and discussing the creation of a knowledge database by repairmen, emphasizing the importance of communication and connectivity in problem-solving.

The speaker also shared their first memories of playing games, highlighted their top three storytellers in various industries, and discussed their experience with web3 games/apps, expressing a positive outlook for the future of web gaming and more!

About the session

Roles:

Speakup aka Trang (pron Chan moderator)

Kurt McClung guest

Scenes:

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Moves:

Podcast & Storytelling

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