Hey guys. Do I have to make a blurb for the game or do the devs do that?
Cause if I have to do it I’m not gonna lie. I suck at writing blurbs 
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I find it difficult to compress 200k+ words worth of story and information into a 100 or so words. Like what do I put in! There’s so many stuff and I don’t wanna leave out anything good. But at the same time I can’t make the blurb too long. 
Can you guys give me some advice on writing blurbs like the ones at the start of every CoG/HG game?
You’re the dev, so it’s on you to make the blurb. 
HG has a written guide. I would also recommend looking at other games in the storefronts to see how they did it. You can always post examples here or on your WIP thread if you want opinions. Good luck. 
Alright! How’s this sound? Writing blurbs is my weakness as a writer and I admit it’s something I need to work on.
After moving around the country constantly for ten years, you finally settle in the neon city of Los Santino; where by midnight public streets turn into racetracks and every turn has a price. In Los Santino, everyone answers to the call of adrenaline pumping speed, including you. Build your legend as a top racer or become another name lost in the huddle.
Choose the type of person you will become. Will you fight all for yourself? Or will you stand by family? Rise through an underground scene ruled by ruthless gangs, organized mafias, crooked cops, and other racers who think they own the streets. Live your life a quarter mile at a time.
Oh I just noticed the link! Thanks! This is a major help!
Welcome to the next monthly update on development for The Frontier! These updates will be posted in this thread on the 3rd or 4th week of each month.
This month has been a whirlwind when it’s come to various design components for The Frontier. For October, my focus has been on a mixture of economic development, refactors to ensure that systems are modular and can be ‘plug and play’ into other areas of the game, and on the first development towards combat.
Now, let’s dive in!
Throughout October, work has largely consisted of the following:
I’d like to say this has been quite a productive month, with plenty more to come in the days and weeks ahead as I charge towards an official WiP release!
I’m taking my careful time with development so that I don’t make mistakes I’ve made with Estheria and Once in a Lifetime.
Most importantly, my largest regret was originally launching Estheria: A Realm Divided’s WiP with roughly 12kish words. It was way too short, I hated that it included solely the character creator, and I regret it daily.
The Frontier is set to launch with a playable WiP exceeding 300-400k words. ← This directly and proudly fixes that mistake.
As of October 26, 2025:
Word count (including code): 281,396
We are hard charging towards a release in the coming months. While I am not confirming a date yet at this time, I am beyond excited for you to step into the known universe!
I hope you’ve had a sufficiently spooky October, and let’s kick off turkey season for those who celebrate next month!
~Zach
Looks good. Try putting the action stuff in here? Moving around the country before coming to Los Santino is probably a detail you can save for the actual game itself.
When midnight strikes, public streets turn into racetracks and every turn has a price. In Los Santino, everyone answers to the call of adrenaline pumping speed, including you. Build your legend as a top racer or become another name lost in the huddle.
(Anyway, that’s just my opinion. Anyone else has any thoughts?)
You know, I actually like this way. 
Man, I really wanted to reboot Speck this month. But the style was found footage and documents after the events.
And that was after I binged found footage films at the time. Only found footage have managed to scare me.
Youll never be afraid of reading something but you will feel paranoid if it could happen to you.
Next month my friend plans on doing another writing month, like in April and July. With it lining up with NaNoWriMo (or the legacy of it), I thought I would invite others here to join the trackbear once she’s created it. I’ll try to tag it in my first post for next month.
I’ve been out of the swing of writing for several weeks and with the launch of Dispatch, I’m sure I’ll continue to be distracted at least one day a week for the next three weeks. I can only hope that I’ll be able to get enough writing in despite that distraction.
The closest thing I can think of to something like found footage in writing is something like World War Z, a series of different stories told in different ways that build a world.
I would be interested in that! I think I’m finally ready to try and have a daily wordcount goal on creative writing (although with lower numbers).
I would be up to joining, I need to lock in.
My final wordcount for this month is looking to be very low, but that’s to be expected. I had important stuff to do, other projects to take care of, and some ideas on how to polish existing content. I’m making an active effort not to feel bad about my lack of progress, since that kind of guilt is rarely healthy.
I would love to join too but I’ve got my hands full running debugs and tests. Mind you I’m doing all this on mobile, so I don’t have the privileges of quicktest and random test. Finding errors one click at a time. Oh God I hate this.
You are a way stronger man than me, I don’t even like writing out short plot points on ideas on my phone. Much less actually writing and coding. My only advice to you is to delegate, let your friends play test it along side you for the sake of speed and time.
In preparation for NaNoWriMo, I have gone over my music playlist. While some find it distracting, I enjoy listening to music as I write. In hopes of setting up a Pavlov’s dog-like scenario for myself with music, I set out a goal to make an “On Repeat” playlist of music late last year. The rules/challenge I set for myself are:
I’ve been doing this for nearly a year, and whenever I add a song, I need to remove a song within the day (because I’d have more than 20 songs). This has made swapping out songs really hard at times. Having this playlist on random and repeat really helps me focus and inspires events; it’s odd to describe.
The songs I have invoke different emotions in me, which sometimes allow me to fit into character better with the scenes. I tend to listen to a lot of pop and rock music, but most of this year’s list is from the last twenty-ish years of releases.
I invite others to do the same challenge of 20 songs, no more, no less. Here is my list for this year. Maybe people will discover music they like through this which can help inspire their writing.
this is so cool!! i do different playlists for different projects that i only listen to while i’m writing/outlining them, but normally they get super long. i’m going to try this with the 20 song limit now and see how it is, thanks!
That sounds like a useful exercise in making sure going through your playlist once doesn’t take half a day if you want to just relax and listen to it…
I’m in the camp that I can’t really utilize music in my process that way (I can have it as background noise, at least occasionally, but that requires it to be on such a low volume that it is just background noise; the point is to keep me aware enough of my surroundings that I don’t get completely lost in my head so I remember to actually do something. If I can actually recognize what’s playing, I’m paying attention to that instead, so I’m not working either.) so I have no use for working playlists (although moodboard playlist could work? I usually just get stuck in one song on eternal repeat there), so I won’t be participating in that particular challenge since it would be pointless (I usually just open the radio if I’m in need of background noise). 
As this month comes to an end, I’ve an announcement to make. If anyone would like to feature their WIP threads for the November Support thread, please let me know as soon as possible. If anyone would like to feature any articles for the November Support thread, also feel free to reach out.
Of course, if anyone else would like to create the November Support thread, that door is still open. Just let me know.
I’m now thinking that there might have been a high-fantasy period between the regular-world apocalypse (by reality warping… I mean, a regular apocalypse with reality warping on top that would turn it into high fantasy instead of regular medieval-ish; there already is a pre-apocalyptic period, or maybe it is the apocalypse and nobody in that specific bubble just haven’t realized because they’re in that specific bubble, where reality is breaking down) and the scandi-cyberpunk post-post-apocalyptic period… urgh.
I’m a bit confused but also very intrigued by this, is this for a wip you’re working on? Also thanks to this I now understand what “post-post-apocalypse” means.
Putting all my flights of fancy on a timeline, but essentially, yes. It’s worldbuilding for a bunch of story ideas that share the same world.
