Hello there everyone!<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve gone nearly half a year without an informed blog talking about what our plans are, and I thought we needed to remedy that today.\u00a0 Between writing, planning updates, working on side projects and personal enrichment, you\u2019d think that there wouldn\u2019t be much time to talk, but oh, you\u2019d be wrong!<\/p>\n
Let me address just a couple of the things that are going on in Tellest.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Continuing to Evolve<\/strong><\/p>\n Once again, we\u2019re constantly switching up our presentation.\u00a0 Recently, Paul Davies spruced up our header, and Kevin Gallagher gave us a video that much better demonstrates our values.\u00a0 Now that we have higher quality art constantly on display, it makes sense to have a more beautiful look for ourselves.<\/p>\n We\u2019re still going to make tweaks and adjustments, especially as the new book covers continue to roll in.\u00a0 When we have The Enemy Within, As Darkness Falls and The Fall spruced up with new covers, we\u2019re going to make a new content trailer that will help get the word out about Tellest somewhat.<\/p>\n And of course, we\u2019re going to continue to invest in great art that demonstrates crucial environments, characters and races of Tellest.\u00a0 That\u2019s what we\u2019ve found to have made one of the biggest impacts this year, and we don\u2019t want to stop doing that, even if we have to slow down.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tales of Tellest ,The Child of the Stars Trilogy and Beyond!<\/strong><\/p>\n The Tales of Tellest is nearing its end \u2013 at least for the first volume.<\/p>\n We\u2019re going to continue putting work into the Child of the Stars trilogy, so that it can be the best fantasy series ever.\u00a0 We want the quality of The Bindings of Fate to be on par with the new stories.\u00a0 The Tales of Tellest is a great entry point for the universe, but we want Kaos\u2019 first adventure to be just as alluring.<\/p>\n While we work on the rewrites for Bindings, we\u2019re going to work on new Tales of Tellest stories on the side.\u00a0 The novellas are a great way to keep interest in the world at a fair pace, but we have other stories that we want to tell as well.<\/p>\n The Tales of Tellest: Volume One stories that we\u2019ve told had a lot to do with characters we\u2019ve had some familiarity with.\u00a0 The next group of stories is going to focus on new characters instead.\u00a0 In the meantime, we\u2019re also going to try and take a few steps back and see some prequel material for Kaos and Mathias.\u00a0 Our goal is to make sure that you always have something to read, with a minimal amount of time between stories.\u00a0 Whereas this first run for the Tales of Tellest has been relatively non-stop, we\u2019re going to have larger gaps for our next run.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Encyclopedia<\/strong><\/p>\n What we\u2019ve decided to do is consider every big flow of encyclopedia entries a season.\u00a0 We had the initial 25 entries that we released, and then we moved into another 50 items, which we are considering season one.\u00a0 Now, season one is coming to a close, and we\u2019re going to take some time off until Season Two begins.\u00a0 What we\u2019ll do in the meantime is freshen up some older encyclopedia entries with new pictures and links so that it feels like a wiki.<\/p>\n In the future, when we have more authors working on stories concurrently, these encyclopedia entries may have smaller gaps, but for now, the quality cannot be undermined by the quantity, so we hope you understand.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Heart of the Forest<\/strong><\/p>\n We\u2019ve got one more bit of news that reflects our need to take time into consideration.\u00a0 Heart of the Forest, the game that will focus on Steel Tip, is being put somewhat on hold.\u00a0 This is because the main part of development has transitioned over to programming, which is a very expensive part of the plan.\u00a0 We\u2019d need about $2000 before we could have a very basic demo in place.\u00a0 Unfortunately, with a wedding coming up, I can\u2019t be throwing my money into this project as much as I want.<\/p>\n That said, you never know what could happen.\u00a0 The books could start selling three hundred copies a month like they did back in 2011.\u00a0 With what equates to another paycheck each month, I could probably bring Heart of the Forest back into the forefront again.\u00a0 For now, it\u2019s just taking a much needed reprieve while we focus on the books that have become so important.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Besides those things, we\u2019ve been keeping our nose to the grindstone.\u00a0 The Fall is coming along nicely, as are some of our short stories, and you\u2019ll have more to look forward to in the weeks to come.\u00a0 We\u2019re nearing the end of our banner year for Tellest, and I have you to thank for it.\u00a0 You\u2019ve been incredible, and I hope that these books are a well earned reward!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello there everyone! 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