Hi,

I made already a few simple games: enter a level, get up to the end, continue to the next level.
But I'm still wondering how "real" game developers create games with a story.

Here are a few things what a story game has (and where I'm wondering about how they make it) :

• A sequence of places the player have to visit and do there that, that and that.
• The first time you see a guy, he says just hello. After a few hours game progress, he gives you a hint to go to a specific place.
• The first time you walk over a bridge nothing happens, a second time: the bridge falls and you will enter a new location under the bridge.
• The first time you enter a new location, you will get a lot of information from e.g. villagers, etc. Next time nothing happens

The last points are a bit three times the same.
But, I don't think they have a save-file with a lot of booleans and integers for holding things like:

• Player did the first time ....
• Player enters the tenth time that location
• Player talked for the ###^th time to that person
• _etc

When I talk about story games, I'm thinking to:

• The Legend of Zelda (all games of the serie)
• Okami

And this are a few examples of level-in-level-out games:

• Mario
• Braid
• Crayon Physics

Thanks