Delve into the Abyss Development Blog - Week 17

 

   This week was a little bit of a slow start. We started off the week with a small meeting that we used to get started on planning what the trajectory of the semester is going to be. This mainly involved making a list of things we need to do and putting those broad concepts on the Trello Board for breakdown later.

   I checked out the Trello Board a day or so after that meeting. Since my main purpose in this group is supposed to be narrative design I decided to take the opportunity to list out things we might need in the narrative. I already have a light narrative concept in the drive, but I wanted to make sure we have a list of things we could possibly need.

   Though the resulting list does feel a little basic right now. I think we need an outline of the lore alongside how and where that lore will be implemented. I also threw in some potential ideas like cutscenes and audio logs for narrative conveyance, but this is all just potential concepts. I feel like as the semester continues and we determine how we want to do things the list will become more concise and specified. But for now it's just simple stuff.

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