[MUSIC] I wanna talk to you about something serious, something that touches nearly all of us at a deep, personal level, something you should never underestimate, and something you should never ever play around with, games! That's right, games. Games are fun, and engaging, and exciting, and they could be great opportunities for interaction. They can challenge you on many levels. And may actually teach you some things as you play them. From little games you play on your phone while you wait for your dad to pick you up, or massive multi-player games that get you up and running and jumping around and having a great old time. There's a deep level of interaction, an engagement that can happen with games. A connection that exists between you the player, and your characters, the personalities and the situations in the game that emotionally bond with you. Some of the more popular games around, reach this emotional connection and inspire fans to amazing heights. And that's going to be the focus of our course. This course will help take you through building narrative into the game design process. I'll show you ways I feel you can weave in great story and characters that emotionally grab your player and elevate your game ideas. Throughout this course, we will analyze how stories and story structure works and how they apply to games. And then, more importantly, how you can use the structure to workshop and develop your own games.