Blog Posts
My First Entry
1 February 2025
I started tweaking when I couldn't customize Wordpress like at all without subscribing. So instead, I spent a good chunk of yesterday and today getting this site set up but now that it exists it shouldn't be to hard to update it as I go along with new posts. Plus it actually looks decent, thank god...
Week 1: Experiencing Alternate Quest Solutions
11 February 2025
I didn't have as much time to play this week, I've been sososososososo busy and it's been kinda awful. Wish me luck on my math exam tomorrow. This week, I can't get too deep into it, but essentially I found a really great example of phenomenal quest design by the Pillars team. I played through a Quest that at every point could have been resolved with violence. As you play as a capable warrior with a team of other warriors to back you up, it's far and away the simplest solution almost all the time...
Week 2: The Crowdfunding Model
17 February 2025
This week I spent a majority of my time researching and writing about the funding process of Pillars of Eternity. I also watched a cute video by Tim Cain about his role in and experience of the development process of Pillars. I also got to see him from when he was a lot younger in the Kickstarter campaign launch video. I'm very used to how he looks in his videos that are from 2020ish to now. Gameplay this week was some basic questing and some interaction with the stronghold system in the game, which is something that was a stretch goal for the funding campaign and the design was led by Cain, I believe. It's been a really hectic week, so this post is a bit shorter. I got some things in order, though, and I had to cut back on some other work that was eating up a lot of my time. i should be freer to work on this and give it more attention when I do work on it. :)