Writing Updates

This month, I am working on chapter 11 of Stronghold and continuing to implement the age customization in Safe Haven. Below, I will discuss each game and my hopes for what I can accomplish this month. I’m trying to write as much as I can and keep progressing for both games.

Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven

Now that the prologue is finished, I’m going to keep going with chapter 1 onward. I’m hoping to get through Part 1 this month and start on the teenager storyline. Most people want to see this storyline more than any other.

If you played as the Teenager in Chapter 9, you may remember a scene with Eli and an old rotary phone. Eli had tracked down a contact of your father's, a man named John Dorsey, after a conversation with Jaime led him to connect some dots about your last name.

You called Dorsey, and he confirmed your parents were alive and looking for you. Then the line cut out before he could finish what he was saying.

You also learned that your father went by the nickname Tiberius "WolfDrake," which he never talked about.

What was Dorsey trying to warn you about? Where are your parents now? That's what we're going to find out.

Whether or not I finish the age customization this month, I’m going to start work on this storyline and share it on June 25 with my Patreon subscribers.

Zombie Exodus: Stronghold

The MC encountered Jessica, whose mother is trapped in a third-floor apartment. Zombies are roaming the halls, and the group agrees to help her. However, the MC gets separated from the rest of the group. If Siena is still alive, she joins the MC to find their way up the zombie-filled apartment building.

This is an interesting series of chapters because the MC has to survive on their own, and there are numerous opportunities to die. I have limited the number of death scenes in the game, but this apartment section has several. In addition, certain parts of the apartment can be explored and will award extra skill levels if you succeed past them. I’ve never implemented that kind of reward in a game before, and I hope you enjoy it.

If I go by the original StoryLoom word count, I am about 65% of the way through rewriting the story. The original version was only roughly 120,000 words, while this version is already over 320,000. As you can see, I’m adding a lot of content.

I’m also going to go back and add more customizations for your character. It’s one of the main requests I receive for this game. I’m probably going to include polls over the next few weeks for you to vote on which customizations you’d like to see.