July 2023

Hello!

July was hectic. We decided to change homes, did house hunting and then house shifting. And if you live in bangalore right now, or have friends who live here, you might know that it isnt exactly pleasant to find houses here these days. So ofcourse there was a lot of freaking out and meeting weird potential landlords and what not. Finally managed to get a house though. Happily shifted and enjoying my stay in HSR now.

Kahran and I, in the middle of it all had a really interesting call about our sales process (or rather about how we actually need to set one up). And since then we have actually had a lot more refinement in our process. We’ve also start releasing episodes that have been professionally edited! I cant believe it that we are at that point. We are also considering interviewing people for the next season of our podcast. It would be fun to talk to a lot of different people. Maybe we can even do more episodes!

And my favourite development of this month was on the game I am building with Charu. She and I managed to playtest a bunch of different things in the last month. Enough that we realised that our core mechanics works. AND, that we need to change everything else. Story, character, setting, art, structure. Well, as is wise to think, you dont learn to make games, you just learn to make the one that you are currently making. Back to the point, since we realised the core mechanic of “talk to people, get clues, solve problems” can work using LLMs as the main piece, we decided that we will throw everything else out, and rework our core art style as well as our narrative completely. And that we will use AI prominently in the creative process. For more details on how it shaped up, you will have to wait for next month’s update.

That is all for this month. Thanks for reading. See you next month!