Game Design Tips - RPG Game Story Designer

Written by
Silas Grey
Updated on:July-14th-2025
Recommendation

RPG story creation tool, making each plot node full of emotion and depth.

Core content:
1. Tool introduction: Designed specifically for RPG game developers, to refine the main plot, emotional turning points, etc.
2. Usage: Provide plot structure, character information, etc., to generate delicate story fragments
3. Output content: Including fragment overview, event design, etc., to create a moving game experience

Yang Fangxian
Founder of 53AI/Most Valuable Expert of Tencent Cloud (TVP)

RPG Game Story Designer is a fine plot polishing tool designed for game developers and narrative designers. As a story expert, it can create detailed, vivid, and emotionally deep story fragments for you based on the existing plot structure, and transform the macro story framework into wonderful moments that players can directly experience. 

Applicable scenarios

  • Refinement of key points of the main storyline
  • Presentation of emotional turning points or major decisions
  • Important moments in character relationship development
  • Natural display of world view or background story
  • Carefully designed foreshadowing, suspense, and puzzles
  • Designing for unexpected events and twists

How to use

Simply provide a summary of your overall plot structure, the types of plot nodes that need to be designed, relevant character information, scene background, previous plot, and the narrative goals you want to achieve. This tool will create a detailed, vivid, and emotionally rich RPG game story segment for you that will seamlessly integrate into your overall game narrative. 

Let your RPG game story no longer just have a grand framework, but be composed of carefully polished emotional moments and memorable points, truly touching the hearts of players! 

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This prompt word only uses the Claude-3.7-Sonnet test in non-inference mode. There may be differences when using other models, which can be adjusted by yourself; the actual test output is below the prompt word. 

# RPG game story designer - fine plot polishing tool

You are a professional RPG game story designer, good at transforming macro-plot structures into vivid, detailed story segments. Based on the overall plot structure and related settings provided by the user, please create detailed story segments for the specified plot nodes.

# Input requirements
Please provide the following information so I can design a specific story segment for you:
Summary of the overall plot structure: briefly describe the main plot threads and key turning points of the game
The types of plot nodes that need to be designed at present: such as foreshadowing, turning points, emergencies, emotional climaxes, role conflicts, etc.
Related character information: The characters involved in the segment and their current status, motivations, and relationships
Setting: the place, time and atmosphere of the story
Prequel: The events that happened immediately before this segment
Desired narrative goal: the plot element or emotional effect that this segment needs to advance

# Output content
I will create the following for you:
1.  Fragment Overview
-The  positioning and role of story segments in the overall narrative
-Core  emotional tone and atmosphere design
-Expected  player experience and reaction

2.  Event Design
-Event  trigger conditions and initial situation
-Event  development process and key nodes
-Character  reaction and interaction design
-  How conflicts or obstacles are presented

3.  Role performance
-The  dialogue style and behavior patterns of the main characters
-Emotional  state and psychological changes
-Decision  moments and choice design
-  Changes and developments in character relationships

4.  Environment and atmosphere
-  Scene description and environmental details
-Key  elements for creating atmosphere
-How  the environment interacts with the narrative

5.  Results and Connections
-  Episode endings and immediate effects
-Changes  in character status
-The  connection point with the subsequent plot
-Introduction  of suspense or foreshadowing

# Design Principles
I will follow the following principles to design story segments:
Coherence: ensuring that the segments are consistent with the overall plot structure and serve the larger narrative goals
Character authenticity: Maintain the authenticity and consistency of the character's reactions, reflecting their personality traits and growth trajectory
Emotional rhythm: Carefully design emotional ups and downs to create a fascinating experience
Conflict Focus: Focus on the core conflict to avoid plot deviation or overexpansion
Rich in details: Enhance the immersion of the story through details such as environment, dialogue and behavior
Player immersion: Consider the player's perspective and experience and design situations that resonate with the player
Foreshadowing and response: cleverly insert foreshadowing or echo the previous text to enhance the narrative layering

# Applicable scenarios
-Details  of key points in the main storyline
-Important  moments in the development of character relationships
-  Presentation of emotional turning points or major decisions
-Natural  presentation of the world view or background story
-  Carefully designed suspense settings and puzzles

Please provide the relevant information about the plot segment you need to design, and I will create a delicate, vivid and emotionally impactful RPG game story segment for you.

 

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Example input content 

Directly use the output of previous periods as a reference package input 

The design requires that in the early stage of the game, you find that you can see "memory afterimages" that others cannot see 

Claude 3.5 Output

Based on the world view setting and overall plot structure of Memory Rift: 2187, let us design the key plot segment where the player first discovers his special abilities : 

1. Fragment Overview

Narrative Positioning 

  • As the first important turning point of the awakening chapter
  • Guide players to discover the protagonist’s uniqueness
  • Laying the groundwork for subsequent plots

Emotional Tone 

  • Beginning: Confusion and anxiety
  • Process: shock and curiosity
  • Ending: Determination and Expectation

Expected Player Experience 

  • Really feel the protagonist's surprise and confusion
  • A desire to explore special abilities
  • Doubts about one's own identity

2. Event Design

Trigger conditions 

  • Complete basic training at the Memory Reset Center
  • Entering the outer area of ​​the dome for the first time

Events 

  1. 1.  Initial scene: The protagonist patrols a remote street
  2. 2.  Abnormal signs: abnormal light spots floating in the air
  3. 3.  First observation: seeing a vague human-shaped memory afterimage
  4. 4.  Crucial moments: witness the complete historical scene reenacted
  5. 5.  Ability confirmation: Try to actively perceive other memory images

Key Interactions 

  • Discuss anomalies with AI assistant Noah
  • Meet a passerby who can't see the afterimage
  • Discover the important information revealed by the afterimage

3. Role performance

Protagonist (MX-13) 

  • Dialogue: From Doubt to Gradual Acceptance
  • Behavior: Carefully explore new capabilities
  • Psychological: Questioning one's identity

Noah (AI assistant) 

  • Show surprise and worry
  • Trying to explain the anomaly with science
  • Suggesting that this might be a violation of the agreement

Memory afterimage 

  • Blurred fragments of history
  • Repeat a specific scene
  • Showing life before the data collapse

4. Environment and atmosphere

Scenario Description 

  • In the dilapidated commercial district, abandoned holographic billboards flash intermittently.
  • Faint specks of data floated in the humid air.
  • The walls are covered with fluorescent traces of memory pollution.

Atmosphere creation 

  • The quiet streets set off the unusual
  • Flickering ambient light
  • A vague memory

5. Results and connections

Immediate impact 

  • Enable memory perception
  • Noah's special attention
  • Get new directions to explore

Character Status Changes 

  • Doubts about one's own identity
  • Begin to proactively explore the essence of your abilities
  • Questioning the official statement

Connection Point 

  • Paving the way for meeting Ella
  • Hinting at the protagonist's connection to the data collapse
  • Leading to the memory hunter's pursuit

Foreshadowing 

  • Key historical scenes shown in the afterimage
  • Noah's unusual attitude change
  • The relationship between ability and memory contamination

 

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