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14 Ways of Drawing Players in with an Opening Cinematic,
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Game Design, Lecture

David Freeman
Game Designer/Writer, The Freeman Group
Not all games use pre-rendered cinematics, and even those that do sometimes don’t have one at the start. But the opening cinematic convention is still the choice solution for many games. Because pre-rendered cinematics are, in effect, short films, there are some hot tips which can be drawn by studying the opening few minutes of successful theatrical films. This discussion presents 14 distinct ways of using an opening cinematic making players spellbound and eager to keep going, dying to learn where the game will take them. Attendees learn these techniques in this dynamic workshop by game designer and writer David Freeman. Video clips help demonstrate these powerful techniques in action.

Attendees come away with a wealth of new techniques for making an opening cinematic captivate players and get them excited about plunging into a game.

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