Unfortunately I was incredibly busy this week with all sorts of unavoibable things but I'm back and have already been very hard at work at getting all the lore and narrative goodies into our beautiful game. With the First Playable Demo coming up I was really hoping to implement a lot of my current writing but we had a couple snags with Yarn Spinner that have since been ironed out. Big shoutout to Jackson for taking care of the implementation in that downtime to get some of the writing into the game.

The big feature that will be taking over my devlogs are going to be the journal entries from now on because they're set to be such an important piece of the game's story. They depict how the abyss showed up, what the enemies weaknesses are, their behaviors, what happened to everyone in the town, and so much more. The narrative team partnered with the art team and we have a bunch of really cool avenues we really want to pursue to take this game to a whole new level. It incorporates tiny clues and hits as to who the actual author of these journals are. I would love the playerbase to never have a clear answer on who the author is but be able to theorize and make an educated guess based on key clues written in the journal accounts. 

Overall, this week has been rough for me especially with time. I haven't really been able to write as much as I wanted to to external factors but I'm very excited to hop right back on and get moving fast. The journal entries are super fun to write and as always I'm having a blast world building and seeing what people like for the story of our Whispering Abyss. I'm very much looking forward to wrting more! See you in the next one!

-Nate