Story is the actual life of movie / game / animation etc... With out story there is no game/movie. The story may be small or big but with out it, they are nothing. The story / concept drives the life of a game / movie. So, their is always a prominent role for a story board writer in game / movie production.
Writing just a plain story is not a big deal for any one. But writing a story in such a way to bring interactions in the middle of story without breaking the user / audience interest and creating / placing the puzzles accordingly is the main challenge. So, for a story board writer in games industry should have additional knowledge and creativity to write such a story which makes the user to stick to his play with out rising out of his seat.
As every one is aware of the fact that story telling is not a simple job for every one to handle. It's again a unique art and very few people has such talent. Story writing involves many ingredients such as concept, screenplay, point of direction(first person / third person narration), twists, time line, key characters etc.... Stories can be of wide varieties such as drama, suspense, thriller, horror, science friction, devotional, action etc... So, one must create a story of his choice type but with proper level of puzzle ingredients.
There are a number of games that got huge market just because of proper story board. Games such as Prince of Persia, God of War, Max Payne, Just Cause, Need for Speed, Assassin's Creed, Tomb Raider etc... were some of all time big hits. Even in the area of casual game development games like Mario, Donkey kong, Contra, Tekken, DigDug, Pacman etc...were some of the all time biggest hits that collected huge money and still collecting. The story may be small or big but it is all the point that how interactive way the puzzles were involved in the story.
A good game play story writer has a great demand in today's world. A huge number of job opportunities are creating every day. So if you are interested in this kind of job then focus on how to develop story writing skills for games. It's always better to refer lot of games available today in the market which will help in creating new methods / puzzles in the story that you write.
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