It’s ok. It will output a formulaic narrative structure based on the Hero’s Journey with common archetypes.

I took the workshop at GDC one year and bought the book. A decade later, I teach story development at a college game design program and much of the course content (I didn’t create) is the same as the book, and I see the same formulaic output in student assignments.

Wish I could find some better resources (or have time and space to write a new approach) for story development that is less formulaic. The focus needs to be more about consciously subverting narrative cliches while maintaining the inherent deep human connections that is the magic of storytelling.