Games Archives - Westin Lee https://www.westinlee.com/category/games/ Homepage of writer Westin Lee. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:52:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 48931760 The Pause: Let’s define that one filler dialogue choice format https://www.westinlee.com/2026/10/07/the-pause/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:51:22 +0000 https://www.westinlee.com/?p=3171 "How are you feeling? You took a nasty fall back there."
1. Not great.
2. Ow! My head!
3. Where am I?

Seen one of those? That's The Pause. A narrative design verb that's usually bad that I've been forced to acknowledge can have value.

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]]> 3171 ‘AI’ for Professional Writers: Navigating the Circus Part 2 https://www.westinlee.com/2025/02/13/ai-for-writers-2025-part-ii/ Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:06:52 +0000 https://www.westinlee.com/?p=3056 In Part One, we looked at the basic technology underneath modern “artificial intelligence,” along with possible use cases professional writers see across industries. This also lengthy part will explore the business of AI, as well as my favorite developments in the public eye. We’ll finish with some predictions and recommendations, as if my hot takes will be good and valuable.

Again, no one else went to the trouble of writing something like this, so now I have to do it.

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]]> 3056 ‘AI’ for Professional Writers: Navigating the Circus Part 1 https://www.westinlee.com/2025/01/30/ai-for-writers-2025-part-i/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:03:01 +0000 https://www.westinlee.com/?p=3032 Here we are in 2025, years into the current generation of AI technology. We’ve been inundated with hype at a scale greater than the last five tech industry hype waves combined. We’ve been told all sorts of great-sounding lines about how revolutionary and inevitable this technology is, especially for creative endeavors like writing.

But is it?

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]]> 3032 Three Underdog Game Narratives You Missed in 2023 https://www.westinlee.com/2023/12/22/narrative-game-experiences23/ Fri, 22 Dec 2023 15:00:04 +0000 https://www.westinlee.com/?p=2937 We made it. There's SO much digital ink online right now for the myriad huge, incredible games that came out this year. So I wanted to highlight interesting narrative experiences I had from places that might have flown under your radar. Maybe the game was smaller, or the situation was weird and no one [...]

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