Procedural Narrative: How To Keep It Coherent

Today we'll dive into what procedural narrative is and how we can use it to create dynamic stories that feel unique to each player. What issues can we run into when creating procedural narrative?

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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:50 What is Procedural anrrative
05:30 What Makes Procedural Narrative Incoherent?
05:50 Continuity
07:24 Tone
08:38 Pacing
09:48 How Do We Keep Procedural Narrative Coherent?
10:18 Prerequisites & Guard Clauses
11:47 Foreshadowing
12:30 Tooling
13:09 TAPIR Method
15:05 Roll with the Implausability
15:52 Conclusion
16:51 Outro

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