The Situation Is Excellent
Chaos Under Heaven is the what we will call this! Moving away from the grimdark fear-only dieties/entities façade, we can have supernatural/supradimensional factions of any stripe, struggling for supremacy in the brief twilight of one local god. Works for me.
The babiest of steps
Goodness, look at that screencap. What a hideous thing! I have never loved anything more completely or helplessly. It’s coming together.
We’re half-way through the 2nd sprint and figuring out how we’re all going to work together. KB is making sketches and models, the folks at Double Coconut are building the PlayFab interface for future admins and players, NC is provided much-needed criticism, and I’m testing long-held and much-loved concepts.
Barcelona
Double Coconut looks like a great fit and we’re off.
A monstrous GDD has been born into the world. It’s quite detailed but missing so much! But enough to bring the doula online and start timing contractions.
521 Days Later
OK. Well, it’s been a heck of a year-and-a-half for everyone everywhere, I won’t recap it. We’re all hunkered down and feeling fine, hope y’all are too.
So, the previous RTS concept was great, loved it then, love it now. But… I love this one a little more betterer. So I’ll be re-adapting some design elements from the old to inform the new but there will be a lot more new than old.
30 Days Later
OK. Well, it’s been a heck of a month for everyone everywhere, I won’t recap it. We’re all hunkered down and feeling fine, hope y’all are too.
I thought that I would do it all; Lead Designer, Sr Dev, Producer, Project Manager, CEO, Marketing, &c. I learned enough at TSG to know to leave legal and financial to the professionals. I may wrench my own pipes but I won’t remove my own appendix. But I had a nagging, yearning love to see this product get made, get distributed, get played, exist. That love blinded me to the reality that me doing something was great and perfect but me doing everything was terrible and morose.
Blog Post Zero
OK, the 1st blog post. Pictured; the tools of the trade.
This will be the public-facing founder’s journal which is more for me than for you. I saw a micro-adage that insisted that you must touch your project at least 5 minutes a day every day and OK I will adhere to that. And another micro-adage that insisted that every tool in your tool box is either specifically employed to improve you or entertain you. And you should get the toys out of your toolbox.