Our Services
Game Writing
In-game Text
Dialogue
We’ll provide the words for your game or experience, whether that’s on-screen text, voice scripts, hint text or in-game assets – we’ve dealt with everything from children’s rhymes to hundreds of thousands of words of interactive text.
Editing
Dialogue Punch-up
Copy Editing
Thematic Guidance
If you’re having trouble with an existing story, we can come in and help; we’ll take a critical look at it and make suggestions to punch-up the emotion and smooth out any rough edges. We’ll also help you keep your title thematically consistent throughout, to make sure your message hits home.
Narrative Design
Story Concepting
Story Delivery
We’ll help you structure your plot and work out how to deliver it for maximum effect, whether it be via text, dialogue, environment or gameplay.
Setting & Characters
Character Creation
World Building
We love creating characters, and will gladly work alongside you to build gameworlds for them to live in. We’ve built entire worlds overflowing with lore and history.
Direction
Voice Direction
Scene Direction
We’ve worked with voice actors, with live performance, and with improvisation. It’s our belief that an intimate knowledge of the story is a critical part of the directing process.
Consultancy
Narrative Analysis
Moment-based Design
Finding Your Story
Not sure what your story is? Have a grab-bag of ideas but no coherent plot? No idea who your characters are and what they want? We’ve run many successful workshops to help studios find their stories, providing them with a solid starting point and a clear direction.
One of our most frequently-requested services is our Story Workshop, where we take the raw ingredients for your story and help you shape it into something solid.
We find that it’s a useful process to go through near the start of a project, where you have lots of ideas about your story, but haven’t managed to piece them together.
Often this can be a part of a longer writing process between your company and Talespinners, but we also offer this service as a standalone exercise, allowing you to take a couple of intensive days of purely focusing on your story and coming out with something that allows you to go away and actually build it.
Story Workshop with UsTwo Games
Story Workshops
The Process
Story Workshop with UsTwo Games
We like to spend about 8 hours on a workshop. Typically we’ll split this over two days. On the first day, we’ll help you break down your ideas to find the core of your story. On the second day, we’ll help you build it back up again.
This is a deeply collaborative process that will involve lots of discussion, lots of sticky notes, writing things down, tearing them up, coming up with out-of-the-box ideas, throwing those away, and then finding new ones.
Although this can be done in a day, the process is fairly exhausting, and we recommend taking the evening off; partly to rest, but also because the human brain is great at problem solving and finding patterns when you’re using it for something completely different. So while everyone is gossiping and relaxing, often new ideas will pop up which will make sense of the story.
Outcomes
Although each workshop can be tailored, typically we’ll produce a document as the result of the workshop, and that document will contain:
A good idea of the game’s themes.
Concrete inspirations for how the game feels.
Specific moments that you want the player to experience.
Ideas about how the world works, and how it integrates with the mechanics and any narrative.
An idea of what the player’s narrative role in the world is.
Ideas for any other characters which might be involved; at least their narrative function within the game.
An outline overall plot with some specific plot events (that is, if it’s actually a story-driven game).
Story Workshop with UsTwo Games
Interested?
We’re happy to travel to run story workshops. Get in touch and we can tailor something to suit you!
