DEFINITION

Drama

<aside> 📈 Rising Tension

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• Threaten the things we care about (bonds)
• Threaten the player (orcs attack !)

<aside> ☝ Climax

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• Weave multiple threats together to culminate in a climax. Rise the tension to the maximum. All story threads converge.

Relief

<aside> 📉 Descending tension

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• Reward the player, give them solutions to their problems, teach them
• Provide bonding opportunities (with characters, environments, plots...)
• Trigger/Display consequences

<aside> 🌄 Valleys

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• Extended periods of tension provide opportunities for the player play & learn, assimilate previously given information dumps, and bond.

Variation

<aside> 🌊 Emotional variation

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• Vary between emotional states: Fear, excitement, love, sadness...

<aside> 🚧 Plot variation

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• Vary story situations, ways of solving problems, kind of characters we encounter, threats, rewards
• Vary between environments and narrative perspectives