Hi, it's been a while since we worked on the Longing, but we're back at it now.
I (Ze) will be completing the draft, which had sat at around 90k words since last I touched it(over 6 months ago).
We have a bunch of artworks already done, which I think looks pretty cool, you have ancient Seas mouths, remote villages, lonely mountain peaks, temples, all kinds of goodies.
More will come once the script is done. I'm aiming to finish it somewhere around the 12-18 months mark.
That's the short of it, if you want the long:
We kind of lost focus after the Remainder, we explored a bunch of things, like sketching out a story for the Hunger, which will follow the Longing, making a bunch of pixel art for characters, testing out different narrative game design tools, just... so many things. At one point I even made a framework for a 3d walking simulator with a model of Evin and flappy cloths and stuff.
Honestly, it was fun, and we learned a lot, and it may lead to some amazing projects for us in the future, the far future, but it was all getting in the way of finishing the Longing.
The theme for this next year and half will be focus. We will figure out how Evin and Near come together, how S'ruthrul stirs from her dreams, and down what course the fate of Taldun flows.
I hope you'll stay with us for this journey.
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