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About Josiah

Josiah Lebowitz is a writer and game designer. He currently operates his own indie studio (Pen and Sword Games) while teaching game design and doing contract work for various other companies. His past projects include tie-in novellas for EverQuest Next, the game Car Washer: Summer of the Ninja, and the books Interactive Storytelling for Video Games and The Verities Silex trilogy.

An Important Scene

I don’t have any big topics to write about this week, but work on the script for Aurora’s Nightmare is continuing.  It’s been a bit slower than I hoped, due to some unrelated work I needed to do which took priority.  But that’s mostly finished so I should have more time to write now.

Speaking of the writing, I’m currently working on an important scene in which Ars begins to learn about Lucerna’s greatest secrets from an unexpected source.  It’s clearly a key part of the story, but it’s extra special for me, since it’s one of the first scenes I planned.  In fact, it was in the original dream I had that inspired Aurora’s Nightmare, so I’ve had the scene sitting in my head for years.  It’s nice to finally be writing it out.  Though, due to the visual novel format, I’ve having to tweak it a bit from the original version…