I recently taught a class about branching path story structure in video games.\u00a0 Whenever I do that, I always talk a bit about visual novels since they contain some of the best branching path stories to be found.\u00a0 And one topic that comes up is how many decisions points and branches a branching path story should have.\u00a0 Of course, there\u2019s no set answer.\u00a0 I\u2019ve played visual novels with only a couple of branching paths and ones with dozens.\u00a0 Personally, I prefer visual novels with a larger number of decisions.\u00a0 It just doesn\u2019t feel like there\u2019s much point in having a branching path story if you\u2019re not going to go all out with it.\u00a0 Plus Fate\/Stay Night is sort of my gold standard when it comes to visual novel structures and it included quite a lot of decisions and branches, both major and minor.\u00a0 So that\u2019s the approach I\u2019m taking with Aurora\u2019s Nightmare as well.\u00a0 It\u2019s a lot more work (each decision and branch means more writing, art, design, etc.), but I think it\u2019s worth it in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I recently taught a class about branching path story structure in video games.\u00a0 Whenever I do that, I always talk a bit about visual novels since they contain some of the best branching path stories to be found.\u00a0 And one topic that comes up is how many decisions points and branches a branching path story … Continue reading All the Decisions<\/span>