Inspiration is all around you, say narrative designers at Game Developers Conference 2026, at a panel attended by GamesRadar+. It's in the breeze, your empathy, and especially in the crazed yuri you've been urgently writing in your Notes app.
Responding to a question of where designers get "quick hits" of narrative inspiration, Gearbox expert writer – and former Call of Duty writer – Alexa Ray Corriea says, "I've been reading a lot of fanfiction," to the liberating sound of applause.
"People are very thirsty these days," she observes, "so I've been doing a lot of… research into that."
"You want to learn about drama? You know what, Love is Blind," she says about the surely unscientific Netflix "experiment" where contestants, sequestered in windowless pods, agree to get married before seeing each other's faces. "I'm sad I missed the reunion, but I'm so excited to have that be a gift when I get home."
Ah, a gift. There's no better way to describe romance – a well of inspiration that only runs dry when you do.
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