Hello! It's been a long while, but that's not just me being lazy, I promise. I hadn't, for a long time, found anything to say that would warrant adding to a post. Epoch had been on the back burner whilst I worked on other coursework for my degree, and between that and freelance work (check … Continue reading Epoch Dev Blog – #10: 04/05/2021 – Finally Have Something To Add

Hello! It looks like monthly seems much more suitable than weekly for this blog, eh? I am indeed still alive, still going strong, though Epoch itself has taken a bit of a back seat in general recently. That's okay, though, because it's been pushed back by work for Whatboy Games, both as part of a … Continue reading Epoch Dev Blog – #9: 25/03/2021 – Still Alive

Hello! Epoch is taking a really fun turn in its overall thematic elements and technological aesthetic. The title of this entry kind of gives away that I'm reluctant to name it any one of those broad terms, primarily because it's still got such strong magical and traditionally fantastical aspects to it that I don't think … Continue reading Epoch Dev Blog – #9: 01/03/2021 – Steam-Cyber-Retro Future Fantasy

Hello! Long time no speak. I've been thinking recently about colour, and how the colour of aspects of the world we inhabit can be coded into our brains. Try these words out: Arcane. Nova. Nature. Necro. Aqua. It might just be those that have unhealthy obsessions with fantasy (yes, including me), but all of those … Continue reading Epoch Dev Blog – #8: 08/02/2021 – Colour

Hello! Happy New Year! What a wonderful start to the year we've had, huh? I wonder if I might need to kill my darlings - or the one darling currently embodying Epoch. The Archivist is a character I absolutely want to include, but unsurprisingly, having a character that supposedly takes notes on everything means the … Continue reading Early Epoch – #7: 10/01/2021 – Older Stuff is Sometimes Still Good!

Sometimes holidays are good, right? I think so, anyway. Thank you for checking in to this entry in Early Epoch. I've not got much to offer, because I've been celebrating at home with my family over the holiday period - when not writing one of my essays for Uni, of course. It's a weird one, … Continue reading Early Epoch – #6: 29/12/2020 – Holidays

Almost a full month between posts. Amazing. Thank you for checking out this next post in the Early Epoch blog series. I've been working on some projects for my University degree, which are set in Epoch purposefully so that I can get some good quality feedback on the world, its characters and fundamental rules. That's … Continue reading Early Epoch – #5: 14/12/2020 – Parallel Development

Okay, so weekly didn't work. I'm not sure why I'm surprised, really. Nevertheless, I am determined to at least keep this going in some capacity, so here I am. I've marked this entry as '4.1' because it's not really large enough to be a full entry on its own - more of an update, "I'm … Continue reading Early Epoch – #4.1: 22/11/2020 – Multimedia

There are two fields of play when it comes to designing a world like this - at least, there are in my head, for all that's worth (I've just finished The Queen's Gambit, it's quite the show. Apologies if that bleeds through into this). The first is the macro level, the wide open battlefield where … Continue reading Early Epoch – #4: 06/11/2020 – Macro vs Micro