: Re: Having a hard time developing an idea I'm developing an idea for a story in a video game which I'm going to design and program. I've already got a good idea, however, I'm having a hard time

@Caterina108

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A good, story based video game really has to immerse the player in the world and make them want to play further.

Before you worry about your story, develop a character that people will care about otherwise it won't matter how fantastic the story is, people won't play it. In terms of video games, you can easily look at the likes of The Last of Us. I care about Joel and Ellie and that makes some of the events that happen in the game much more emotional for me and, I presume, other players.

Also, I've read books (since this is the writers forum) whereby the writer has created a beautiful world full of scenery and wonderful buildings that were well described and well thought out but the main character was as dull as anything and I simply couldn't read a lot further.

The other thing is that there are times when a well developed character will simply refuse to do something you're trying to get them to do and to force them to do so will only ruin the player's sense of disbelief.

After the main and any other characters your story may need, you then go for story development. There are a number of ways of doing this but the three act structure is tried and tested and works for all stories. How many bumps in the road your character(s) hit on the way remains up to you.

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