DRAGON AGE ORIGINS: ENGAGEMENT

In this project, I wrote three interactive dialogue scenes between the player character (Warden) and their party members Alistair, Leliana, and Zevran. I wrote these scenes for Bioware's Dragon Age: Origins to fulfill a narrative beat that I felt was missing in the official content. It was an exercise in writing for an existing IP and creating an interactive branching dialogue structure.

These scenes take place at the Party Camp between the events of the Landsmeet and the Battle of Denerim in the main plot. During the Landsmeet, the Warden has declared they will solve the unrest in Fereldan's political structure by marrying Alistair and ruling Fereldan as his queen. The Warden returns to the Party Camp and discusses this decision with Alistair and their other companions.
 

WRITER

• Wrote over 300 lines of dialogue between the player character and party member characters proprietary to the Dragon Age franchise
• Created script template in Microsoft Word using a numerical sequence and indentation to display dialogue branches
• Studied official dialogue for proprietary characters through three rounds of revision to match tone and style
• Created interactive dialogue trees between three different characters using Twine
• Wrote multiple dialogue choices for the player character with varied attitudes to facilitate role-playing and player autonomy
• Wrote dialogue branches accounting for romance options with party members from player's prior in-game choices
• Scripted an adaptation of Dragon Age: Origins's dialogue UI using CSS to mimic the in-game feel
• Studied best practices for writing video game dialogue trees and creating interactive fiction in Twine