AGAINST WORLDBUILDING, AND OTHER PROVOCATIONS: Essays on History, Narrative, and Game Design

For twelve years, Alexis Kennedy has been writing some of the most original and intelligent narrative games of the last decade – Fallen London, Sunless Sea, Cultist Simulator, and more, as well as guest-writing gigs for BioWare, Paradox and Telltale Games.And for most of that time, he’s been writing *about* games as well.Here for the first time in one place are the best of his essays and columns – from hard-won lessons about game development to reviews of unreviewable games, from narrative design principles to writing masterclasses, from historical discursions on labyrinths to the notorious ‘Against Worldbuilding’.