II. The 32 Categories of Emotioneering Techniques
by David Freeman
Creating Emotion in Games: The Craft and Art of Emotioneering™
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Foreword
- Gallery
- I. Introduction
- 1.1. Communicate… Explore… Help… Words… Edge…
- 1.2. An Introduction to Emotioneering
- 1.3. Why Put Emotion into Games?
- Reason #1: Expanded Demographics
- Reason #2: Better Buzz
- Reason #3: Better Press
- Reason #4: So Games Don't Seem Amateurish
- Reason #5: An Inspired and Dedicated Creative Team
- Reason #6: Consumer Loyalty to the Brand, Which Is Worth a Fortune
- Reason #7: So You Don't Burn Millions of Dollars of Potential Profit
- Reason #8: Competitive Advantage
- Reason #9: So You Don't Come in Last
- Summary
- 1.4. 17 Things Screenwriters Don't Know About Games
- 1.5. Why Game Designers Often Find Writing to Be So Challenging
- 1.6. Why “Writing” Is a Bad Word and “Emotioneering” Is a Better One
- 1.7. How to Hopefully Be Unappreciated
- 1.8. Where Screenwriting Leaves Off and Emotioneering Begins
- II. The 32 Categories of Emotioneering Techniques
- 2.1. Emotioneering Techniques Category #1: NPC Interesting Techniques
- 2.2. Emotioneering Techniques Category #2: NPC Deepening Techniques
- 2.3. Emotioneering Techniques Category #3: Dialogue Interesting Techniques
- 2.4. Emotioneering Techniques Category #4: Deepening Deepening Techniques
- 2.5. Emotioneering Techniques Category #5: Group Interesting Techniques
- 2.6. Emotioneering Techniques Category #6: Group Deepening Techniques
- 2.7. Emotioneering Techniques Category #7: NPC Toward NPC Chemistry Techniques
- 2.8. Emotioneering Techniques Category #8: NPC Toward NPC Relationship Deepening Techniques
- 2.9. Emotioneering Techniques Category #9: NPC Character Arc Techniques
- 2.10. Emotioneering Techniques Category #10: NPC Rooting Interest Techniques
- The Sorcerer Among Us Is You
- Relationship to the Character Diamond
- Put the NPC in Danger
- Self-Sacrifice
- Undeserved Misfortune
- Learn About a Painful Part of Their Past
- Bravery
- Some Techniques Fall into Two Different Categories
- Characters You Invest with Life
- Characters for Whom You're Responsible
- A Note About Multi-Function Techniques
- Using Rooting Interest Techniques and Their Opposites to “Dial Up” or “Dial Down” an NPC's Likability and the Degree to Which We Identify with Him or Her
- Final Thoughts
- 2.11. Emotioneering Techniques Category #11: Player Toward NPC Chemistry Techniques
- 2.12. Emotioneering Techniques Category #12: NPC Toward Player Relationship Deepening Techniques
- 2.13. Emotioneering Techniques Category #13: Player Toward NPC Relationship Deepening Techniques
- 2.14. Emotioneering Techniques Category #14: Group Bonding Techniques
- Elements of Shared Appearance
- Shared Goals
- Shared Rituals
- Going Through Shared Ordeals and Adventures
- Taking Heroic Actions to Protect Each Other
- Complementary Skills
- Say Good Things Behind Each Others' Back—Even if They Don't to Their Faces
- Bam-Bam Dialogue in Cinematics
- Shared References
- Group Bonding Challenges in Squad-Based First-Person Shooters
- Final Thoughts
- 2.15. Emotioneering Techniques Category #15: Emotionally Complex Moments and Situations Techniques
- You Are Forced to Do Potential Evil
- You Are Forced to See Through the Eyes of Someone You Don't Like or Are Ambivalent About
- Ambivalence Toward a “Friend”
- Ambivalence Toward an “Enemy”
- Ambivalence Toward a Situation
- You Discover You've Been Tricked
- Helpless to Aid Someone You Love
- What's Good and What's Evil Is Not Black and White
- Forced to Violate Your Own Integrity
- Creating Emotionally Complex Moments and Situations Through Incongruence
- Final Thoughts
- 2.16. Emotioneering Techniques Category #16: Plot Interesting Techniques
- 2.17. Emotioneering Techniques Category #17: Plot Deepening Techniques
- Two Key Characters Trade Places
- The Story Makes a Spiritual Power Palpable
- A Symbol Takes on More and More Emotional Associations
- A Character We Like Dies
- A Bittersweet Ending
- An Ending That's a Little Uncertain
- Greetings from a Land Outside Your Awareness
- Relevance of Crouching Tiger for Games
- A Downside to Victory
- Emotion Mapping
- Idea Mapping
- Final Thoughts
- 2.18. Emotioneering Techniques Category #18: World Induction Techniques
- Creating a Rich World
- Creating a Rich World Through Visual Incongruence Using Emotionally Resonant Items
- A World That Takes A While to Figure Out
- Friendship or Responsibility Toward NPCs You Care About
- Revenge
- Don't Hold Back on Cool Weapons or Cool Things to Do
- Don't Change All the Rules at the End
- World Induction Techniques Commonly Used in Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs—Sometimes Called MMOs)
- Final Thoughts
- 2.19. Emotioneering Techniques Category #19: Role Induction Techniques
- Skill Sets
- Rewards for Playing the Role
- Against All Odds
- Accomplishment
- Leadership Attitudes and Abilities
- A Valuable and Appreciated Role
- License to Break the Rules
- Beguiling New Identities
- Abilities Beyond the Norm
- The Character Has Emotional Responses We Recognize and Can Identify With
- Self Auto-Talk and Self Auto-Thought
- Fewer Words Usually Invites the Player to Identify with the Character
- Character Silence (No Self Auto-Talk and No Self-Auto Talk)
- Generalizing a Problem
- Tradeoffs When Using Role Induction Techniques
- A Case Study in Role Induction: Thief
- Final Thoughts
- 2.20. Emotioneering Techniques Category #20: First-Person Character Arc Techniques
- Defining the Problem
- Past Attempts to Create a First-Person Character Arc
- Emulating Life Itself
- Should Going Through a First-Person Character Arc Be Essential to Winning a Game?
- Various Types of Rewards and Punishments
- Where a First-Person Character Arc Begins
- Alternative Character Arcs
- Final Thoughts
- 2.21. Emotioneering Techniques Category #21: First-Person Deepening Techniques
- Emotionally and/or Morally Difficult Decisions
- Hypothetical Game Case Study: Woman from the Future
- Hypothetical Game Case Study: Choice of Player Character
- Hypothetical Game Case Study: The Kidnapped Teenager
- Responsibility
- Hypothetical Game Case Study: The Terrellens
- Multiple and Sometimes Even Conflicting Viewpoints (Learning from Mr. Bill)
- Hypothetical Game Case Study: Return to the Terrellens
- Certain First-Person Character Arcs
- Hypothetical Game Case Study: Returning to the City
- Seeing Situations That Aren't Black and White
- Final Thoughts
- 2.22. Emotioneering Techniques Category #22: Revealing Complex Characters Through Their Actions
- 2.23. Emotioneering Techniques Category #23: Enhancing Emotional Depth Through Symbols
- Usable Symbols
- Symbol of a Character's Condition or Change in Condition—Visual or Verbal
- Game Case Study: Ico
- Hypothetical Game Case Study: Symbols of Sadness and Achievement
- Symbolic Subplot
- Game Case Study: Aidyn Chronicles
- Symbols Used in Foreshadowing
- Hypothetical Game Case Study: The Samurai
- A Symbol That Takes on Increasing Emotional Associations—Visual or Verbal
- Hypothetical Game Case Study: The Pendant
- Game Case Study: Max Payne
- Hypothetical Game Case Study: The Hood Ornament
- Final Thoughts
- 2.24. Emotioneering Techniques Category #24: Self-Created Story Techniques (a.k.a. Agency Techniques)
- 2.25. Emotioneering Techniques Category #25: Motivation Techniques
- Don't Interrupt Gameplay
- If Possible, Try Not to Let the Way the Player Receives Information Interrupt the Game
- Don't Hold Back Too Long on the Carrots
- Avoid the Feeling of Repetitive Gameplay…Sometimes
- Keep Those Plot Twists Coming
- Sometimes Provide Unexpected Consequences to the Player's Actions
- Action Puzzles
- A Mysterious or Interesting World That Takes A While to Sort Out
- An Interesting Plot That Unfolds in an Interesting Way
- A Higher Score
- Final Thoughts
- 2.26. Emotioneering Techniques Category #26: Cohesiveness Techniques
- Your Character Gets a Reputation
- Karma
- NPCs in One Part of the Game Refer to NPCs in Other Parts of the Game
- Give Your Game a Theme
- Relationships Between People or Groups That Take A While to Decipher, But Eventually Form Their Own Coherent World
- Abilities You Learn in One Part of the Game Are Useful Later in the Game
- Remind Us of the Stakes
- Final Thoughts
- 2.27. Emotioneering Techniques Category #27: “True-to-Life” Techniques
- 2.28. Emotioneering Techniques Category #28: Cross-Demographic Techniques
- 2.29. Emotioneering Techniques Category #29: Injecting Emotion into a Game's Story Elements
- 2.30. Emotioneering Techniques Category #30: Tying Story to Gameplay and Mechanics
- 2.31. Emotioneering Techniques Category #31: Writing Powerful Pre-Rendered and In-Game Cinematics
- Learning from Film
- Few or No “Blocks”
- Give Major Characters Interesting Diamonds
- Ambivalence Between Characters Can Make a Cinematic More Interesting
- Use Layer Cakes Between Characters to Give Their Relationships Complexity Beyond Simple Ambivalence
- Watch Out for the Clichè and Bland Lines
- Can It Be Said or Told Better with Actions Rather Than Words?
- Time Permitting, It's Okay to Briefly Stray from the Topic at Hand
- No Predictabilty
- Obstacles and Interruptions Can Make a Cinematic More Interesting
- Use Dialogue Devices to Make the Dialogue Sound Natural
- Summary
- The Example
- Final Thoughts
- Glossary for This Chapter
- Learning from Film
- 2.32. Emotioneering Techniques Category #32: Opening Cinematic Techniques
- III. An Emotioneering Gallery
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Chasm
- Hypothetical Game Case Study: Boston Physicist
- NPC Interesting Techniques (Chapter 2.1)
- Player Toward NPC Chemistry Techniques (Chapter 2.11)
- World Induction Techniques (Chapter 2.18)
- First-Person Deepening Techniques (Chapter 2.21)
- Player Toward NPC Relationship Deepening Techniques (Chapter 2.13)
- Emotionally Complex Moments and Situations Techniques (Chapter 2.15)
- Plot Deepening Techniques (Chapter 2.17)
- Adding Emotional Depth to a Game Through Symbols (Chapter 2.23)
- Final Thoughts
- 3.3. Styx
- Hypothetical Game Case Study: The Roman Empire
- Emotionally Complex Moments and Situations Techniques (Chapter 2.15)
- NPC Deepening Techniques (Chapter 2.2)
- NPC Toward Player Relationship Deepening Techniques (Chapter 2.12)
- First-Person Character Arc and First-Person Deepening Techniques (Chapters 2.20 and 2.21)
- Plot Deepening Techniques (Chapter 2.17)
- Final Thoughts
- 3.4. Rough Trade
- Hypothetical Game Case Study: Cyberpunk Novelist
- NPC Interesting Techniques (Chapter 2.1)
- NPC Deepening Techniques (Chapter 2.2)
- Player Toward NPC Chemistry Techniques (Chapter 2.11)
- Player Toward NPC Relationship Deepening Techniques (Chapter 2.13)
- Role Induction Techniques (Chapter 2.19)
- First-Person Character Arc Techniques (Chapter 2.20)
- First-Person Deepening Techniques (Chapter 2.21)
- Motivation Techniques (Chapter 2.25)
- Plot Deepening Techniques (Chapter 2.17)
- Final Thoughts
- IV. Magic
- V. Addenda
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