Brooke Maggs

Narrative Designer | Remedy Entertainment
 https://brookemaggs.com/

Brooke has worked on the Apple Award-winning narrative puzzle game, The Gardens Between (The Voxel Agents) and on the Australian story-book gem, Paperbark (Paper House). She has also consulted on a number of mobile titles, including the BAFTA-winning game, Florence (Mountains). She received the MCV Pacific XBOX Creative Impact Award for her work in the games industry. Brooke recently moved to Finland where she works at Remedy Entertainment on Control and Vanguard, an experimental, live game title.

Media Publications

  • The Gardens Between (2018)
  • Paperbark (2018)
  • Florence (2018)
  • Control (2019)

Academic Publications

  • The Writer Between: Thieving Literary Plot to Design Game Narrative, refereed conference proceedings for the Authorised Theft: Writing, Scholarship, Collaboration, the 21st Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, 2016, Canberra
  • Riding the Ghost Train Between the Stations; no platforms for me, conference paper, Writing the Ghost Train: Rewriting, Remaking, Rediscovering, the 20th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, 2015, Melbourne
  • Inherent Monstrosity in Narrative: The Witchy Writer and Liquid Identity, conference proceedings for the Monstrous12 conference held at Oxford University, 2014

Social Profiles

All Sessions by Brooke Maggs

  • 20. Nov | Summit Day

    The Summit Day will feature talks, project presentations, panel discussions, and workshops.

  • 10:00  - 10:30
    Narrative design gives context and meaning to the play experience by combining story structure with game mechanics, while keeping an eye on every other aspect of the game such as the world, animation and sound design. The Gardens Between is a premium title with no text or speech and has been lauded as a ‘beautiful story of childhood friendship’ (Engadget) and has a calm, time-bending puzzle design that ties into the environments. This talk will discuss the origins of The Gardens Between, key lessons learned and how story structure allowed for narrative cohesion, and the challenges of making a game where the environment, gameplay and story are intrinsically linked.
    20. Nov | Game Development Summit: Strange Worlds – About Spatial Experiences in Digital Games
    Where
    Cinema Lecture Hall

  • 12:15  - 13:00
    Panel discussion
    20. Nov | Game Development Summit: Strange Worlds – About Spatial Experiences in Digital Games
    Where
    Cinema Lecture Hall




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