Hey everyone,
We're very happy to finally release the Unfallen comic, which has been co-authored by YOU, our community! As a special treat, and to make them more readily accessible to our players everywhere, we are putting all our Endless Space 2 Stories comics up on Steam. The comics will automatically download to your installation folder, in a subfolder called "Stories". Note that the Unfallen comic will also be made available on the Wiki at a later date.
While we're on the subject of Endless Space 2 Stories, we've put together a special treat to show you how we create comics, and give you a chance to meet some of the Amplitude people who have been behind the scenes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIsUCTtTCnk
INTRODUCING BRANCHING PATHS, OUR COMMUNITY CO-AUTHORED UNFALLEN COMIC!
Given that the Unfallen comic came about via a creative collaboration between the community and the studio, making this one was a little bit different to the normal process ...
Prior to beginning the comic, we'd already decided that we'd approach the Unfallen from an outsider's perspective, and with the community's help we came up with our main character, Karv Jezet--an experienced, cynical Haroshem adventurer with perfect memory.
By the way, we chose to tell the story from a non-Unfallen POV because we thought it would be very difficult to do justice to the culture and psychology of a sentient species of trees in an 8-page comic format! Often, alien races in science-fiction are nothing more than humans in fancy-dress, and we didn't want to reduce such an interesting species like the Unfallen into such a role. By letting the audience see the Unfallen through Karv's eyes, we could still explore some of their most striking aspects, while keeping their inherent "alienness".
Of course, lone adventurers rarely make interesting protagonists, so we quickly came up with the idea of Karv having a partner. And who better than teaming Karv up with everyone's favourite photobomber, Ryhnc Raggiodri? But where we would they start their adventures? How about a seemingly virgin world, where Unfallen tendrils were about to make planetfall in a matter of days ...
Since the community would have a vote on the protagonists' choices every couple of pages, and we wanted them to have a genuine input into the direction of the story, we didn't think too much about what would unfold on the page. We knew the world had certain, unique features, but we had no idea how things would pan out.
Give it a read, and tell us what you think!
-StoryEngine
We hope you enjoy this story! If you have any questions or comments, you can shoot them in this thread at Arkel, who leads the project. And if you want to learn more about our comics, you can rewatch our comics livestream on Youtube!