Game Narrative Kaleidoscope Podcast

Episode 33: Bertine van Hövell

Game Narrative Kaleidoscope Podcast

Show Notes

Biographies: The Quick and Dirty Way

Bertine van Hövell (Old Skies, Stellaris) talks to us about creating characters for LARPs by creating their biographies. How can adding a contradiction to a person's backstory spice up a character and give a steer on roleplaying that character? And how do we bring that idea over into a computer game, where the player has no one to judge or feed off their performance?

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Music by Laurence Chapman (https://www.laurencechapman.com/)

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