If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a thousand times… “story is king”. Regardless of you’re medium or audience, be it a book, movie or, yes… even a game – STORY is the framework, the glue, holding the entire experience together. Within game development, you’ll find that less experienced teams will delay developing their story, or even ignore it altogether, but it’s sometimes the extreme opposite which can also be just as damaging. I’m not an expert on story, but I do understand the importance of its place and you won’t get very far if you ignore it. Trust me, I’ve witnessed what happens when a team does and it’s not too pretty. What happens though, when you go to the other extreme and you become too attached to your script?

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