Personal Update and Preview (Patreon)

Hey folks,

First of all, I want to thank my new patrons who joined this month, as well as anyone who has purchased my games on itch this last week. Thank you. I was laid off earlier this week, so was my roommate, and about half the people living in my building. I have no idea what the future looks like right now, but you are giving me the security I need to face it. I have no intention of letting my creative work fall to the wayside. It's certainly harder to focus now, but oddly enough I've never felt more confident. You all did that.

Above you'll see a special preview for A Torch in the Dark, my upcoming single player dungeon crawl game. This is the forward that introduces the player to the premise and world of the game. It will probably change in small ways in the future, but I wanted to share some of it with you. I've done a lot of testing over the last week and I'm going to have an early access version completed by the end of March.

From there I'll keep working on making a fully released version, then return to work on Riot in the Stars, and maybe in-between I'll work on something small. I thought it might be nice to make a game folks can play together on social media. Something in the vein of Vincent Baker's The Sundered Land.

You'll be hearing from me again soon. But once more, thank you.

Transcription of the image above 'cause wow I can't find a way to make a screencap that isn't blurry:

Welcome to the Dungeon

“The catacombs of the Imperial City have served as the sanctified burial grounds for the lords of  the realm since time immemorial. Whenever their syphilitic bodies finally succumbed, whenever their dark deals in devilry and diabolism finally came due, we put them to rest in the crypts beneath the city. They would be buried with their crowns and their gold and their trophies they took from the land. No peasant, no commoner, no one who was not noble born was given this same consideration, except to sometimes be buried alive to serve their rulers in the great hereafter.

When the People’s Revolution reached the Imperial City we threw them all  into that exact same pit. We filled it with barons stripped of their furs, lords stripped of their jewels, and kings stripped of their heads. We packed their precious mausoleum to the brim and buried them with their lies.

But we underestimated their desperation.

With his final breath, the Emperor Titan Atorius VIII cursed the Imperial City and all who lived therein.  He called upon the power of the demons and devils he had served during his terrible reign to curse the People’s Revolution.

As the last brick slid into place, sealing his fate, so too was our fate sealed. For that dark diablory has found its way back into the realm. The dead kings have arisen, our crops are blighted, and the People’s Revolution has become corrupt. That crypt now exists between worlds, torn between reality and hell. We dare not open those doors, except to permit those who seek to deliver us from that evil. 

And so the last act of the Revolution falls to you. It is up to you to kill the dead lords and reclaim their wealth.  It is up to you to keep the People safe. It is up to you to end the last Emperor’s curse and restore the land. For the realm. For the people. For the Revolution.”

-Last public address from Brada the Twice Betrayed. Mother of the People’s Revolution.