Making Games Again

A quick update for those still following the blog:

I’m back making videogames, having joined Thought Pennies several months ago (as the design director). I won’t be able to do a whole deep dive into the experience until we announce the game properly, but I am excited to be working with some familiar faces, and many exceedingly talented game developers that I haven’t had the chance to work with before.

It is exciting!

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The CCO of Thought Pennies is Daniel Erickson (writer of the Dwarf Noble and Elf Commoner Origin stories on Dragon Age: Origins, and the lead writer on The Old Republic). Daniel has vast experience with crafting “branching narrative” games and I’m loving the narrative plans for our new game.

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In way of “extended update”, prior to Though Pennies, I was working as a contractor for Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast on the Exodus RPG videogame, though largely on ancillary material for the game (like these books from Renegade Games). When work wrapped up there for me, I got back into building things of my own, using Godot to create a simple proof of concept for a game I’d one day like to finish. But for the time being I’m having lots of fun at Thought Pennies.

What about Raiders of the Serpent Sea, you ask?

Well, I won’t be doing anything new for that over the next few years, but I do still provide support on all the existing material, and maybe over the winter holiday, I might update a few details here and there. The Runic Tales website is the best place to keep up to date on all that: https://runictales.com/contact-us/

Anyways, hopefully it won’t be so long between updates. Excited to announce what we are working on! I think many past fans of the games I’ve helped create will be very, very pleased.

Take care,

-Brent Knowles