Everyone is familiar with branching dialogue, but most people don't realize the sheer number of different ways it can be designed. We talk about the good, the bad, and the weird. The way dialogue is structured- not just written- can reveal a lot about the values a game communicates to its players, for better or worse. This talk dives into the branching dialogue work I did at Kognito, an educational gaming company that makes branching dialogue games about difficult, real world social-issue conversations.
