When you wrote 'Whisperer in the dark', what were your influences/intentions and where do you see that story going into the future?asked by PhantomofTruth
TL;DRWhisperer in the Dark was the first Jump Point story, written quickly during crowdfunding to feel distinct from other serials by going Lovecraftian horror; its system will be explorable one day and Tanya may return.
With that one, that was actually our first jump point story? It was actually I think, I was writing it at the same time we were closing out, because that was still during the crowdfunding phase I believe.
That was yep. We started that off in 2012, end of 2012. And I think...
YeahBL: I think we realized we'd done it, we'd set up all these subscriptions, we promised people original fiction, and we need a story really darn fast.
Yeah, that one. That one it was a weird one. At the time I was still writing the Cal Mason one, still writing the Kid Crimson one, and still writing the news update. I think part of it was just trying to set, you know, Cal Mason was a very high adventure type thing, Kid Crimson was this sort of more Noir-ish crime thing. This really enough like, needed to feel distinct from those two, so it kind of went for more horror, like Lovecraftian.There's a story he did called "The Nameless City" that has this very long segment of it, where this guy is just crawling in a tunnel. It's really claustrophobic and uncomfortable and cool. It was that kind of feeling that, you know, having this woman going through this like abandoned, old, destroyed civilization and weird things start happening. "Is it real, is it not?" and stuff, and try to walk that line of like, you know, not supernatural stuff but, could it be? Who knows.So yeah, that was sort of the idea behind it. As far as the... I mean story for the system is gonna be interesting because that's Hades system. That's one that you guys are all gonna get to poke around in. One day. So we'll see where that story goes. Tanya is gonna, I think, probably make another appearance somewhere. We'll have to see.
It's crazy thinking back to those early days, where you could be writing three serials at once and you were doing all the graphics for the website. I think back "How did I do all of the CS tickets, and run the forums, and plan the sales?" It was crazy!
I don't know. I have no, I mean, It was nuts. I remember watching you guys do the last 24-hour live stream and I was at home when you guys were in Austin, and I was like "I don't know how they're standing."
I fell asleep.