I’ve done a panel at all five LudoNarraCon events, and I’m glad to be back at this year’s event, running on Steam this very weekend! This year the panel is titled “Game Stories Told in Most Unexpected & Surprising Ways” about all the unconventional ways games can tell stories, and with me I have Richard Dansky (narrative lead on extraction shooter The Hunt: Showdown), Daniel Benmergui (creator of unique story-builder game Storyteller) and Latoya Peterson (head of Glow Up Games, makers of Insecure: The Come Up Game). The panel is streaming all weekend long as part of LudoNarraCon, but you can also watch it anytime on YouTube right here:
As part of the event, my experimental narrative game The Church in the Darkness is up for it’s biggest sale yet at 90% off. Take a look at all the LudoNarraCon content right over here:
The Church in the Darkness are long time guests of LudoNarraCon, the annual online festival about narrative games. And we’re glad to be featured again for 2023, now with a 90% off discount! Check out us and all the featured games on Steam right here: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/LudoNarraCon
As part of LudoNarraCon, our project director Richard Rouse also participated in the
panel Game Stories Told in Most Unexpected & Surprising Ways which includes Richard Dansky (of The Hunt: Showdown), Daniel Benmergui (of Storyteller) and Latoya Peterson (of Insecure: The Come Up Game).
The panel is streaming all weekend long as part of LudoNarraCon, and
but also you can watch it anytime on YouTube right here:
Not all the games features will all promise cults in the jungle, but
there’s more to life than joining the Collective Justice Mission.
Right? Right?
Rules of the Game returns for the 2023 Game Developer’s Conference with great speakers including Jamie Cheng,
Aleissia Laidacker, Beth
LaPensée, Richard Lemarchand and Tanya X Short. Come see them Wednesday at 11:30am, West Hall
Room 3016. Each gets 10 minutes to share a Rule (or perhaps Belief) they have about developing games. People have liked it before and we are optimistic they will like this one too.
We’re happy to see the Fellow Traveller exploring kid is skipping off on their way to join The Church in the Darkness and our very friendly little cult… Even the dog is coming!
And all because the game’s on sale on Steam right now.
Creepy statue located in Wicklow, Ireland (The Indian Sculpture Park, outdoor sculpture gallery)
Shocking Developments!
That’s the name of the panel I’m doing at LudoNarraCon May 5th-9th - the panel is a long with great and shocking people Heather Albano, Antony Johnston, and Xalavier Nelson Jr.
Thanks to the good folks at Fellow Traveller for organizing this great conference dedicated to fascinating narrative games.
This year I was able to host the Rules of the Game talk at the Game Developer’s Conference once again!
It was my pleasure to include Eleanor Todd, Carrie Patel, Osama Dorias and Frank Lantz, who did a series of excellent talks on their personal game design rules.
For the New Year, Isaac and Rebecca want to bring their music to the world, so we are proud to say our unique soundtrack is now available on Bandcamp.
Of course it features the talents of our cult leaders John Patrick Lowrie & Ellen McLain, along with soundtrack music by Andre Maguire. With cover art by Shane White
And we should add that if you really love our music, you can still pick up a beautiful 1970s-style gatefold double vinyl from Minimum Records (Though it is sold out at Limited Run Games)
And if you want to hear our music while running through the jungle, we are still on Winter Sale at some of your favorite places to play video games set inside dark religious cults.
Images and words mostly about video games, horror, crime fiction, and Hitchcock.
Richard Rouse III is a director, game designer and writer and is the Creative Director at FarBridge on dark new games. He was creative director and writer on The Suffering action-horror franchise, and has also worked on The Church in the Darkness, State of Decay, Quantum Break, Sunset Overdrive, Drakan: The Ancients' Gates, Damage Incorporated, and Odyssey: The Legend of Nemesis. He wrote the book Game Design: Theory and Practice, and is known for his lectures on game design and storytelling. He lives in the Seattle area with his very understanding wife and children.
