

As well as scripts, they build worlds and storylines out of huge databases of NPC barks, flavour text, lore snippets and branching conversations. There's a sense in which most video game writers are using cut-up technique by default - even when they're trying to construct a linear narrative. It's sometimes called aleatoric writing, which means there's an element of chance involved in the creative process alea is Latin for dice game. Cut-up has its roots in Dadaism and was used by boundary-pushing artists like William Burroughs and David Bowie.

There's a writing technique called cut-up, in which a text is broken down into small component parts and then rearranged, somewhat at random, into a new text.

The creator of Her Story explores its ideas further in a broader, deeper, more unruly video mystery.
