I'm playing on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

Okay, so today's episode is all about a column I wrote earlier this year about something I came, an idea I had about design, something I call narrative equity.

So I'm going to explain what narrative equity is and go into detail about how,

why it's important for games, why games need it, and different ways that games can help ensure

that they work narrative equity into their game. Okay, so let's start. What is narrative equity?

So I'm going to start by telling a story about my eldest daughter, Rachel.

Many of you might know her because she's been on this podcast numerous times.

Okay, so there is a place up here in Washington.

There's a chain of them, but it's called Great Wolf Lodge.

And it's a place that it's a hotel that has a water park inside it.

And so the idea is you go and it's sort of a family resort.

And we go there from time to time.

It's not too far away.

There's one up here near Seattle.

So we go there and there's many things.

Besides the water park, there's a lot of different,

you know, sort of family-friendly activities, one of which is an arcade. And for those that have

not been in arcade recently, there's a lot of video games, but one of the things that's very

popular in video games or in arc, is a lot of the video

games will give you tickets.

And then you can take those tickets and you can spend them and buy prizes.

They have like a prize wall and you can spend tickets on the prize wall.

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