Aa boy same! I love narrative games! It's really cool to see too in this thread that Toby Fox is inspiring people to make games.
Sort of related to education--teaching is a really key element of games! I think you might be interested in reading up on some game design articles related to tutorials. Games have to give resources and communicate with a player and give them the space to interact and solve problems.
Oh man oh man, narrative games are totally my favorite. I find that even when there isn't a lot to go off of in a game, I try and create conversations between the characters in my head. For example, I like creating little backstories for my animal villagers in my Animal Crossing town, it just feels so much more real to me!
Ooh, and thanks for the tip as well! I've been really going through all sorts of different video and articles for tutorials on Game Maker Studio, just to get a good feel for the software, but I think that reading up on game design about using tutorials in game will also be great too! Heck, just reading up more on game design is something that's still pretty new to me. I've recently been really pouring into Extra Credits's videos on game design, but do you have any recommendations on other people's articles or videos I should check out about game design?
Extra credits is super good! Here's a really interesting slideshow/talk about learning in games (with special regard to application development, actually).
A lot of the times I like to look through Gamasutra articles--especially for game design and game business/industry. If you follow their twitter, you can get these articles on your feed.
