John Yorke’s Game Writing Training

A really exciting opportunity presented itself recently that I just HAD to apply for. The Screen Industries Growth Network opened up funded places to the John Yorke Story game training course, and though I have been writing interactive content for a little while, the chance to refresh and hone my skills on a masterclass with story expert John Yorke (whose book Into The Woods, is basically on every creative writing course reading list ever, and I’ve been carrying around for the last 10 years) and Caroline Marchal (lead game designer of Heavy Rain and founder of INT./NIGHT studio), was extremely attractive.

Happily, my application was selected and over the next 8 weeks, I will be receiving formal training around the story principles for gaming. The course focuses on investigating the relationship between player and protagonist, how to merge story and gameplay and the 5-act structure, all whilst developing an original idea - so watch this space!