Update - 30/06/2025

Hello, everyone, and welcome to another weekly update! I hope you all had a great weekend. I spent mine working, as you already know since I came up with that new game idea I shared with you, Choir of Flesh. It all started because I made the mistake of taking a break from Tales from the Green and my other secret Ker Nethalas project (which I'll show you in July!), and instead of watching a film or playing a game, I started thinking how the last time I wrote a properly dark game was when I was working on Under Ashen Skies. Sure, most of my games are kind of dark, especially something like Sacrifice, but I suddenly got the urge to write something really ugly and hopeless (I think I'm watching the news too much). So I got thinking, and every time I want something dark and grim I end up with religious themes, so I might have some unsolved child trauma with that, haha. Regardless, I started writing down ideas and well, you guys saw what I came up with. I know a few of you hate the idea of me working on something like this, but I can assure you that, if I do (I'm still not sure I will cause I have a lot on my plate), it will still be a 100% fantasy game, just rooted in real world stuff. So the same I did with Seekers Beyond the Shroud, Under Ashen Skies, and even Across a Thousand Dead Worlds, I suppose. I'm not going to start writing religious games, you can be sure of that. I wrote one real life game with no fantasy elements (Covert Wars) and I hated it so, so much.

In any case, I first need to finish Tales from the Green, which I'll do this week. I will stick to my current workflow, which is doing the "boring" stuff in the mornings (working on games is never boring, but as you guys know I'm having trouble with sci fi lately), and then working on other, more exciting projects in the evenings. Once Tales from the Green is done, my mornings will be taken over by Across a Thousand Hollow Vaults, which seriously needs to be done before the summer is over. And meanwhile I'll keep working on the myriad of smaller, distracting projects I have. This works well for me, I think.

So this week I'll focus on Tales from the Green, and continue working on my secret KN project, which is shaping up really nicely. I've been working on it for two months now so it's getting ready! I think this will be a surprise for most. Can't wait to share it with you!

And that's it for this week, I hope you all have a great one!