Aram Zucker-Scharff

Someone realized that TBD was doing the worst thing in the world for Allbritton, telling the competition that they could compete. The cut-backs issued to Allbritton Communication’s grand experiment TBD were surprising. First the outlet cut community profit-sharing, than Allbritton paired the organization down to just a website and put it under the purview of […]

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There are few games I’m more excited for than Dragon Age 2, but I’m struggling with whether or not to purchase it. The prospect of zero-day DLC just feels wrong to support. In four days we will have passed the deadline to get a whole bunch of free DLC with a Dragon Age 2 pre-order. I didn’t order […]

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Sometimes it is important to maintain a character or narrative over multiple stories. The tool for that is story arcs. Story arcs are most common in TV and graphic novels, however, with the easy linking of stories, there is an opportunity to expand the use of arcs. A quick review: A story arc allows you to move one narrative thread […]

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Many mediums have a standard narrative structure, for journalism that structure is the inverted pyramid. The three act structure could almost be considered a meta-structure, as it is used in concert with other formats. However, TV tends to use a certain flavor of the 3 act structure. What structures are common in branching and interactive narratives? The […]

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