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Quests are a vital part of my plan to keep our audience entertained throughout the course of their gaming experience in Patriam: Infinitus.

Splitting quests into General, Story, and Grind quests, we offer players to pursue a unique course of action and shape the world around them via said actions.

Within the past two years, our team has streamlined the processes of both training new team members in quest designing and how the quests themselves are designed, structured, and implemented.

During my time at Massey University studying a Bachelor of Screen Arts, I hope to further improve upon my own game development, story develpment, and dialogue construction skills, allowing me to pass these skills onto my team.

Nations play an important part in all Patriam media. Often, nations, their political & military leaders or notable heroes of a specific nation are the focal point.

In Patriam: Infinitus, players can take control of either a historical Patriamic nation and will either work towards its historical goals and aspirations or alternatively forge a new fate for their nation.

Most nations in Patriam: Infinitus are bound together by a series of large cities populated with a harmonious mix of players and NPCs with smaller villages, outposts, and fortresses dotted across their claimed territory.

As leaders and citizens, players must work together to ensure that their nation prospers, maintains sovereignty, and expands itself. Having to make important political, economic, and military choices that can significantly affect themselves, their nation, the nations of others, and the wider narrative of Patriam: Infinitus which, in turn, influences quests.

In times of peace, players focus on building up their primary cities, establishing trade agreements and alliances with neighbours and friendly nations, and constructing new infrastructure, ports, farms, and fortifications.

In times of war, players must band together and fight a series of pitched and siege battles to determine the outcome of a conflict.

Nation Leaders and City Governors/Lords have the ability to mobilise NPC who would otherwise be farmers, merchants, builders, etc. and march into battle against their enemies with them.

However, great care and consideration must be made in regards to supply lines, terrain, seasons, and more lest their armies starve, become stranded, or be ambushed by an opposing force.

Central to the player experience of Patriam: Infinitus is what we call the "Player-Influenced Narrative".

An ever-changing world and game requires an equally consistently evolving story. While I have written an overarching story that is expected to play out over the coming years that Patriam: Infinitus will run, the story and its major plot points are both intended to influence the actions of players and nations alike, but are also able to be influenced and changed by those same players and nations.

This story design gives the impression that players are in direct control of their own personal stories, while maintaining the engaging and entertaining elements that a structured story for some single-player videogames or films would traditionally bring.

Through these three points we hope to achieve a compelling, engaging, and entertaining experience for fans of Patriam that can be played and enjoyed for years to come.

My past experiences of working on creative projects, both Patriam and not, over the past decade has taught me much.

Now, as I leave one part of my life behind and embark on a new and unknown creative journey at Massey University, I hope to learn so much more and gain skills that will allow me to one day launch many standalone Patriam videogames of exceptional quality and effort.