Damn

Can't say today was as productive as i'd hoped. i finished Metro Last Light, and learned more from it than i had hoped. One being that things don't actually have to scare you to be scary. I liked the creepiness of the world. Something i'm still trying to put my finger on really. One thing that surprised me was that the game had sex in it, then i remembered that it's not an american game... Oh when will these americans learn (not talking about the people, i'm just talking about the nonsensical media content censorship, it's not like the Japanese are any better, no full frontal nudity allowed, but guro and scat is ok...) the game was thoroughly enjoyable, another thing i loved was the stealth gameplay, they really pulled it off well. Also it felt like i had such a nice choice of weapons, even if it was only a handful of weapons. The trick was that they were all highly customizable, which reminds me that Dead Space 3 had a pretty cool crafting system, i'll have to look into that again soon. Storyline was also interesting, i can imagine myself pulling an ending like that in one of my games, but i'd probably turn it into a moral choice, still the situation the protagonist was in didn't really leave him much choice. (Not gonna spoil of course)

I didn't really get to reading Emilie Autumn's autobiography today. Sadly. I just picked Metro up and got kind of absorbed in it right away, then before i knew it was night!

I did give some thought to what i should do next, and i think i should put a pause on Yrja's Torment until i've done more concept work. Largely to make sure i won't shoot myself in the leg by putting something in Yrja's Torment that will be different in "Unchained". But there are other reasons, i for example need a timeline, and for a believable timeline i need to build more lore, and to build more lore i need to decide the current state of the world (wars, etc) also since i really want to pull a stunt like Corruption of Champions that allows your character to change from human (or whatever he/she was) to a monster of some sort by consuming questionable looted ingredients (like shark teeth or snake oil) i will have to decide how many villages will be a "free for all" and how many villages or cities might not permit anyone who isn't one of the major races entry unless they had a certain reputation or something like that. My concept has a long way to go but at least the high concept is mostly done.

I need to find the right tools to do the next concept work, wikia was good enough for a high concept but it's insufficient for going down to details, especially ones that are WIP and might change. I suspect the next couple of days of development will be slow, but i shall not stop.