As the Wasps would say: "When we go we make it hollow! Tra-la!"

#LifeImitatingArt #ArtImitatingLife #ToHiveAndToHold #allegory #visualnovel #clifi #cli-fi #solarpunk #cyberpunk #booksky

Checkout our #devlog to see how we use the allegory of an antagonist group who love anything hollow for #Climate

Purple background: "Queen Tabitha: What do you mean? Old Wasp: Well. You can drink it or we can kill you. Queen Tabitha: I... I don’t trust you. Old Wasp: Ok. Level two. Do you know the Advisors from the East? Queen Tabitha: The advisors from the Eastern Provinces... yes? Old Wasp: Wasps. Queen Tabitha: No. Old Wasp: Yes, queen bee. Do you know the three Barons of Grain? Queen Tabitha: Wasps... I... I always suspected... but they weren’t... Old Wasp: Hollow? Oh no, queen bee, they were. We mask it now. We sacrifice our Hollow, just to get The Big Hollow. Queen Tabitha: The... big... Old Wasp: Think queen bee. Then have a drink."

We got some good #lore and #worldbuilding coming along in #ToHiveAndToHold #visualnovel technically not a spoiler.

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#gamedev #indiedev #cyberpunk #solarpunk #cli-fi #clifi

#ToHiveAndToHold or #THATH is a #cyberpunk -to- #solarpunk #otome #visualnovel #game world about Mikki, the queen of the Chimera #hivemind charged with forming a strong alliance in order to advance the Chimera Quarter in Saffras City. More details to follow...

#devlog: Found some stock characters for the demo of #ToHiveAndToHold, on the way in time for #Halloween provided all goes well!

Struggling to understand Layered Characters in #Naninovel in #Unity making a #visualnovel #game... All the layers are showing all at once and now we gotta figure layering

Lilac page with branching narrative snippet: "Narrator: This trick did not last long but Old Wasp became specialized in the growing of plants that would mutilate the Earth-Human Bee connection and leave it spiritually hollow. Narrator: He started down this path after his father told him that no matter how hard they tried to sabotage and oppress the Human Bees, they still remained cheerful and friendly to one another when they had things that lifted their spirits like music, comedy, dance, festivities, and culture. It was the spirit that remained, his father explained. Narrator: From then on, Old Wasp took on the mantle to discover how to render the Human Bees spiritually hollow, hopeless and without cheer. The scene changed. Peak ‘Hollowing’ - Old Wasp’s Dominance The ‘One Hive Theorem’"

It's also #devlogTuesday I guess, just making that up right now. Here's a snippet from the #ToHiveAndToHold #visualnovel

#indieDev #gameDev #devlog #hivemind #solarpunk #cyberpunk #lore #bees #wasps #narrative #branchingnarrative