Finding Miranda: Overview

We've still got a lot of work to do on Finding Miranda, the next game that Mortze and I are working on. To help tide you over, I'm going to write some short articles about the game. I don't intend to write any actual spoilers in these articles, but I understand that some people prefer to know as little as possible about a game before playing it. They like the surprise. If you're one of those people, you should probably avoid reading the posts here whose titles start with the words "Finding Miranda."

This is the third game in the series, and follows "Dreaming with Elsa" and "Redemption for Jessika." I've planned out the overall story arc these games are telling, and, though I won't reveal how many games there will be, I will say that this is not the last one. I'm bringing you somewhere, but we haven't arrived there yet.

If you've played DwE and RfJ (and if you haven't, what are you waiting for? They're highly rated and free. Click the links above and download them) you know that this world is similar to ours but with slight twinges of the supernatural. Finding Miranda will pull back the curtains a bit more on what's happening, and it will answer a question or two that you might have from playing the previous games. Finding Miranda contains spoilers for the other games, so I hope people play them in their released order.

In story time, this game starts before the events of Redemption for Jessika and runs in parallel through much of that game. The "Miranda" you're "Finding" is the character Marc met briefly in Elsa's bookstore (and who, if you were very observant, you saw one other time in the game). So you know that Miranda and Elsa are friends. Whether or not that translates into Elsa being in this game would amount to a spoiler, though... I will also neither confirm nor deny whether or not Chloe, Jessica, and the enigmatic Xara are in this game, other than to point out that, because of the time frame, each is possible.

On a personal level, I will say that Miranda's story is one that I've wanted to tell for a very, very, long time. In my past, I was a science fiction writer, and she was going to be the protagonist in the sequel to my most popular novel. As things turned out, I got out of the novel game before writing that story, though. I actually pulled a good deal of the character interaction I had intended for that novel into my much earlier game, "Getting to know Christine," which forced me to change the story around somewhat when I was finally ready to write Miranda's game. Miranda herself is still the person I've wanted to write about, but the male character in this game changed dramatically to keep it from becoming a rehash of Christine. That said, the "Floozie" scene is almost identical to its original incarnation, which I wrote a ... strikingly long time ago.

I'm really looking forward to bringing you Miranda's story. Please pray to the render gods that we continue to make progress on our images.

Tlaero