Write Warz developers on how creative writing makes a hilarious party game

Write Warz is the recently launched debut title of Boltz Entertainment, a co-op party game that turns the act of storytelling into strategic (and often funny) warfare against your opponents. Building on the tradition of Jackbox-style titles like Quiplash or RiffTrax, Write Warz instead offers a longer-form avenue of storytelling between friends, as up to 6 players can join together to build the narrative. The game launches on Steam in early access on March 6, with horror and pirate-based themes. Each game within Write Warz is a round robin-style iteration where every round, the players each contribute a sentence or two. The winner’s writing is added the story, and so on, with each story’s prompt being determined by the in-game “setting” — pirate-themed, horror-themed, etc. Each player has a chosen avatar who, if the player’s sentence is chosen, can bestow a buff or debuff on themselves and other players. Depending on the type of game chosen, there can be other complications, such as e ... Read full article.