My role
The Choice follows a protagonist trapped in a repeating day who must observe routines, uncover clues, and understand the conflict behind each cycle.
Role: Narrative Designer. The other team members handled programming and 2D art.
Narrative design in a multidisciplinary team
The Choice
I designed the story and clue progression for our three-person time-loop mystery. I used the characters’ daily routines as clues, so a conversation can make more sense the second time you hear it. My teammates programmed the game and made the 2D art.
- Role
- Narrative Designer
- Context
- Three-person team project
- Period
- 2025
- Status
- Released Windows build
My contribution
- Designed the narrative content for the team’s repeating-day mystery.
- Structured progression around observation, character routines and accumulating context.
- Used discovery to change what the player understands between loops, working alongside the dedicated programming and 2D art roles.
Design decisions
- Repetition as narrative structure
- Each loop gives the player another opportunity to recognise patterns and uncover information rather than simply repeating content.
What was hard
- Making repeated events feel purposeful instead of redundant.
- Structured discovery around observation and accumulating context about the characters and their routines.
Outcome and evidence
Our three-person team released a playable Windows interactive-fiction project with public role credits.
- The public Windows build and project credits provide the delivery record for the team project and my narrative-design role.
Team credits
- The other team members held the programming and 2D art roles.
What I learned
A repeated event needs to reveal something or gain meaning from an earlier discovery. That gave the loop structure a narrative purpose and gave the programmer a progression sequence to implement.
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