Game Designers' Note

Emergent Narrative

Players, game mechanics, and RNG together to produce an emergent narrative (e.g., Minecraft, Magic: The Gathering).

Emergent Narrative can strengthen player involvement in the story

How To Encourage Emergent Narrative

System richness

Enough choices — chaotic system

Plausibility

Player infers narrative from available character actions

Fill event gaps

Provide a space for player imagination
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