Coming up on release very soon! (FWIW it may not be the exact date currently listed on the Upcoming COG Games thread, but it should be very close to that. Nothing’s wrong, just some stuff shifting around behind the scenes.) I was looking back at my very earliest development notes for the game, which are interesting in terms of what was set from the start and what wasn’t. As example, here’s a list I had of very vague possible character ideas after coming up with the basic initial plot idea:
Scattered thoughts on this:
- The PC is described as the Sorceress’s “ward” because my very earliest conception of the game had you as her magical apprentice who went into hiding with her, not her kid. I was already going back and forth about that from the start, though, which is probably why she’s also still called your mom here. That whole storyline is also why “some kind of connection to your family” is a separate item on the list.
- Vivian and the Sorceress were definitely the first characters I had any actual strong sense of, to the point of Vivian being the only person on here with an actual name. The only thing I’m not sure about is why he’s described as a “rebel ghost” specifically. I guess stealing the Stars (which is an idea I had at this point, from elsewhere in the doc) is kind of inherently rebellious, but it’s not really the main thing about him.
- “Rogue wizards” is pretty much always how the Grim Reminders are described on this document until I came up with the name.
- From the “child of rebels” line that pretty clearly became Em, it seems like my original conception was that they were being pushed into following their parents into politics? Not exactly the direction things went in.
- The only things on here that don’t have clear connections to characters in the actual game are “some kind of magical star spirit” (which is not in fact a thing, lol) and “weird doctor of some kind who hangs out with the rebels.” I don’t know what that second one means. Who were you, Weird Doctor? Where did you go? Why did I abandon you?
it’ll be well worth the wait!
