Life Essence, still plugging away

Again I am writing, and again it is about life Essence. Things have gotten difficult, but we are undeterred in our quest to bring the game to fruition. We have been doing a lot of thinking about the best way to convey the themes and the metaphors that make this project so compelling, and Anthony has deemed it best to change direction.  As it stood, there were gameplay elements that were going to be included that didn't really fit into the whole point of this whole endeavor, like a combat system,  which while it sounded alright,  had the potential to suck away time and effort from the other more important aspects of the experience we feel are more fitting. We could have shoehorned it in, and it might have been a fun way to spend your time in the world of Trium, but the only way we could have made it compelling enough a system would be to have much more depth of strategy and nuance into it, perhaps even some progression of abilities, and then we would have to inevitably add in more enemies and then play test the daylights out of it to make the enemies  balance with your abilities,  and then rework and refine until we were blue in the face. All for a game completely about finding peace through understanding and acceptance. A game about digging into the things in life that are hard to deal with on an emotional level does not necessitate using weapons of depression destruction. We should not be focused on bringing intesnse combat to the incredibly packed sphere of available titles that already focus on external struggles. 

So we won't.

Instead, we are going to give you an EXPERIENCE.

We are shifting, and the hard work we will put into this will be to tell you who these people in this magical place are.

You will hear their thoughts.

You will step into the shoes of people you start out knowing nothing about, and know them better than most of their dearest friends.

You will see the memories that have brought the once mighty to their knees, the once proud to shame, the once brilliant to stupifaction. You will feel hearts breaking. You will brave the lonely terror of uncertainty and doubt in the thoughts of people you cannot help but develop empathy with, and find the hidden glimmers of hope that they could not in a thousandfold retreading of the darkest corners of their minds,  and you will help them see.

Stay tuned...