The 80 Days devs need you to pen campfire tales for Pendragon

If you’re into Arthurian myths, you is perhaps focused on Pendragon. It’s an upcoming “narrative strategy game” about chatting and turn-based whacking from the creators of 80 Days and Heaven’s Vault. If you’re actually into Arthurian myths, you would possibly wish to take a stab at writing one.

Developers Inkle are after brief, lightly-interactive campfire tales for his or her heroes to natter to one another. They’re paying £40 a pop for any that make it into the game.

Inkle say every story needs to be round 500 phrases, “written as dialogue between two characters, the first telling the story, and the second butting in with the occasional dialogue choice to pace the flow.”

You have to submit your story using Ink, which is the software program Inkle use to inject phrases into all their games. I’ve had slightly peek, and it seems swish and easy. Code turns my mind to mush, so that you’ll be fantastic.

Here are some extra writing tips:

“The stories they tell are ghost stories, fairy stories, tall tales of magic, or the deeds of old heroes. Tonally, we’re more Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant and Tennyson’s Idylls of the King than T. H. White’s The Sword in the Stone (too goofy) or Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising (too mystical). We’re definitely not heroic fantasy, Tolkien or D&D. The only jokes we tell are bawdy ones.”

You’ll discover extra detailed recommendation in this document, together with an instance of ’un.

There is the spectre of spec work hanging over this, as loads of of us will write with out being paid for it. Inkle do appear weary of that, and encourage individuals to not spend too lengthy on their submissions. I feel that’s OK. This is sufficiently small and good sufficient that I’m not bothered. It’s a far cry from an exploitative Ubisoft “opportunity”.

Pendragon is due out this summer season. Here’s the Steam page with extra deets.