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The Order of the Thorne

Added 2020-10-29 19:08:23 +0000 UTC

So we've been working on the second game in The Order of the Thorne, but in doing so - we've decided to make the game we wanted to make, not the game we thought people might want. With the first OotT, we tried to make a "family friendly" game like King's Quest. Thing is, though - families don't play adventure games any more. The people playing our games are grown, mature people - most of them in their 30s,40s and 50s. Our original intent for OotT was to be a bit more mature - some more conflict with characters, a little more violence and action and the game wasn't so... hand holdy? Is that a word? In the end, we changed direction with OotT and it just didn't work as well. The game has a lot of great bones, but even to me feels stunted. So when working on FoF, we got to thinking about making a Director's Cut of "The King's Challenge" and give the game a bit of a lift... and make it more like we first intended. And then we got to thinking we'd probably release one long game "The Order of the Thorne" which has both parts as one long game, as it probably should have been. In 2016 when we released, episodic games were "the thing" and we were trying to stay relevant instead of true to what we liked. Well, we learned our lesson. It may not be profitable, but at least we'll make a game that we like.

I'm excited about, because I wrote a lot of the backstory and lore for OotT and it's an interesting story - my kind of take on Arthurian legend and how it ties into Finn's life and family is cool, I think. Hopefully we can pull this off and provide a satisfying conclusion, and maybe a new take on the first part for new players and old alike.