We help writers, studios and publishers create stories that win awards, break sales records, and keep players coming back for more. The Narrative Department's Game Writing Masterclass is a six-week online course designed to give aspiring and working game writers the skills, knowledge, and confidence they need to grow their craft and their careers. Our alumni have gone on to become game writers or narrative designers at Obsidian, Cloud Chamber, ZeniMax, Jam City, Monumental, Deviation Games, and Undead Labs. And the list keeps growing.
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Founder & CEO, The Narrative Department. Best-selling, award-winning game writer (BioShock, Far Cry, Tomb Raider). Offers training for writers & narrative designers so they can do their best work.
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We're launching a new cohort for our Game Writing Masterclass! Click here for all the details: https://lnkd.in/gS-nGMMT
Founder & CEO, The Narrative Department. Best-selling, award-winning game writer (BioShock, Far Cry, Tomb Raider). Offers training for writers & narrative designers so they can do their best work.
Registration for our Game Writing Masterclass is open for a few more days! To celebrate, we're continuing our Alumni Appreciation Week with the wonderful Sam Smyth, who uses our course lessons in his work as a narrative designer. "Doing all the exercises, talking with everybody... gave me that confidence back and reinforced that "Oh, this is the thing that not only this thing that I want to do my whole life, it's the thing that I KNOW that I can do my whole life." And that's the biggest thing. I mean, everything else is just gravy." https://lnkd.in/gJjZvDmX
Registration for our Game Writing Masterclass is open now. Curious? See what our alumni have to say! https://lnkd.in/gS-nGMMT
Founder & CEO, The Narrative Department. Best-selling, award-winning game writer (BioShock, Far Cry, Tomb Raider). Offers training for writers & narrative designers so they can do their best work.
It's Alumni Appreciation Week at The Narrative Department! This is the week we celebrate some of the incredible students who have gone through our Game Writing Masterclass. Please say hello to game writer & narrative designer Nicholas O'Brien, Founder at Essay Games. Nicholas, we miss you! https://lnkd.in/g7iZ5w8C
Founder & CEO, The Narrative Department. Best-selling, award-winning game writer (BioShock, Far Cry, Tomb Raider). Offers training for writers & narrative designers so they can do their best work.
New article! If you want to ace a game studio's writing test, check out their study guide. (If only ALL study guides were so fun!) https://lnkd.in/gDbvM2hX
THIS IS IT! The end of the line! The countdown has reached...Number One! (I mean, they're all Number One...) Say hello to the amazing - and very well-spoken Nicholas O'Brien, a man who truly Knows His Stuff. He's a game designer and writer with 10+ years of teaching experience and an insatiable desire to learn. Every teacher dreams of finding people like Nicholas in their classroom! Here's to you, Mr. O'B. <3 #gamedevelopment #narrativedesign #gamewriting https://lnkd.in/gzhg2wwT
The Final Countdown continues until EOD today! Next up: Brady Sadler, a man with 10+ years of game design + narrative design experience. He's designed games that have raised a combined total of over $5.5M in crowdfunding, and he's the author & designer of over 60 published works across tabletop games and fiction. No slouch, this one! He brought so much to class. 🙌 #gamedev #narrativedesign #gamewriting https://lnkd.in/grxHgd8n
We need all seven days for TND Alumni Appreciation Week! We're in The Final Countdown - we have three more writers to introduce today, and then we are officially done. Say hello to Andrew Jenner, a wonderful man, a talented creative, and the best teammate you could hope for. #gamdev #narrativedesign #gamewriting https://lnkd.in/gvFbAGYi
Andrew Alfonso, you're amazing.
Founder & CEO, The Narrative Department. Best-selling, award-winning game writer (BioShock, Far Cry, Tomb Raider). Offers training for writers & narrative designers so they can do their best work.
It's the last day for TND Alumni Appreciation Week. We have more star students than days in the week, so today we're delivering a twofer - A Tale of Two Andrews. 💖 First up, Andrew Alfonso, who brought 17 years of experience in game development, working on everything from AAA titles to mobile/iOS games, to our class. We miss him already! "I felt that taking this course boosted my motivation for work just exponentially. I feel a lot more confident in my interactions with people at work, I feel a lot more confident with how I'm actually writing." 👏 👏 👏 #gamedev #narrativedesign #gamewriting https://lnkd.in/ggq5UQR6
Emily, you're amazing!
Founder & CEO, The Narrative Department. Best-selling, award-winning game writer (BioShock, Far Cry, Tomb Raider). Offers training for writers & narrative designers so they can do their best work.
We're nearly through TND Alumni Appreciation Week. We love shining a spotlight on these amazing writers. Today's star is Emily Leonick. If you're looking for a great writer and a lovely human being, look no further.💖 "This course gave me such a great writing community. It makes me really excited to go in and talk to other people about their writing, which has always been something that I've loved. And there's nothing but ample opportunity because everybody's writing, everybody wants to talk about what they've written, everybody wants to read other people's stuff." https://lnkd.in/gb8rWt6n
John Ryan is a delight. What a writer! What a human!
Founder & CEO, The Narrative Department. Best-selling, award-winning game writer (BioShock, Far Cry, Tomb Raider). Offers training for writers & narrative designers so they can do their best work.
We are at the midway point of TND Alumni Appreciation Week. Yeah! Today's star student is accomplished game writer & narrative designer John Ryan, who is "currently working on a secret project" (oo). Writers at all levels thrive in an environment where they are supported. "It is refreshing to be part of this buzzing writer hive mind where you can all come together and share work without fear of ridicule." YES! COSIGN! We all need that.