Fran Tufro

👋 I'm Fran. I send out a short email every day to help writers create narrative games.

Buenos Aires, Argentina Joined on Dec 17, 2023 https://onwriting.games

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Fran Tufro

Mar 14

character vs. player

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Fran Tufro

Mar 13

hello, emotions? where are you?

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Fran Tufro

Mar 12

NarraScope 2024

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Fran Tufro

Mar 11

solid new grounds via negativa

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Fran Tufro

Mar 8

try not to break the fictive dream

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Fran Tufro

Mar 7

sorting gameplay

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Fran Tufro

Mar 6

dynamic three-act structure

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Fran Tufro

Mar 5

nice outfit, you look like a gardener

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Fran Tufro

Mar 4

other hidden nonlinearities

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Fran Tufro

Feb 29

interactive storytelling and its nonlinearities

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Fran Tufro

Feb 27

beware of the filler endings

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Fran Tufro

Feb 27

linearity is unavoidable

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

iterative and incremental

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

the anchor and the hooks

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

signposting character traits

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

my stance on 'AI'

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

choose your own story beats

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

the objective

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

main character's background

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

the programmer writer

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

and a pinch of chaos, please

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

user investment in branching narrative

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

my problem with voice acting

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

truly branching narrative

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

last words on Stray Gods

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

interactive musical

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

poor design decisions in Late Shift

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

distance between player and designer

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

a rhyzome of game narrative archetypes

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

telepathy and narrative agency

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

time off

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

writing endings that are not lame

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

interactive planners vs interactive pantsers

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

limits for ease of writing interactive stories

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

dating sims are the new zombies

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

Emily Short's Dialogue Expressiveness in Mask of the Rose

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

writing interactive games because we can

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

happy new year!

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Fran Tufro

Feb 25

the cake and the rhizome in the wild

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

gameplay and plot devices

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

and it was exhausting

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

character arcs

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

writing npcs

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

the handstand walk

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

re: games & numbers

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

enframing writers

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

overbored!

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

eat your own food

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

probability and state

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

intrinsic vs extrinsinc

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

slay the praise

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

slay the state

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

slay the repetition

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

slay the numbers

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

slay the ethics

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

slay the princess

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

a playtesting session

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

frustrating results

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

taming the rhizome

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Fran Tufro

Dec 24 '23

rhizomatic time loops

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