Uit het dagboek From the journal
Af en toe een notitie. Geplaatst als er iets te zeggen is. An occasional note. Posted when there is something to say.
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The attack that never came
A scene was missing from Episode 5. I found it by accident, and then it got worse.While testing, I found that a key scene in Episode 5 never played. A nameless fallback was quietly winning out over the real attack. The fix was small, but underneath it the foundation turned out to be crooked. That is why the release moves back.
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Six letters, four branches, one reader
A correspondence with someone from a far future.Veld is a short interactive correspondence in six letters, free in the browser, in Dutch and English. Someone from a far future reads in old fragments and has chosen you out of them.
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Behind the Story
How three systems make every story differentThe templates from the previous devlog form a skeleton. What fills them in differently for each player are three systems running in the background: flags, echoes and dimensions. What those three do, and what I'm working on at the moment.
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The village opens next week
The first readers get to step inside.Het Laatste Dorp is running in TestFlight, and the first five episodes are done. The beta opens next week, and I'm looking for the first readers who want to step inside.
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Same path, different voices
The story stays. The voices don't.Het Laatste Dorp has thirty-five characters, three POV slots and six lines of succession. A look at the system that decides who tells the story, and why no two playthroughs sound the same.
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Storyteller
An old craft, new tools.How I work: with stories that have lived in my head for years, and with AI as a tool to finally get them out. Honest about what's mine, what the tool does, and why I prefer storyteller to writer.
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Where No Screen Remains
On stories, and what they ask of us.A story only really matters when it lands somewhere no screen remains. That’s why we choose text, quiet, and the space the reader brings.
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Chicago on the Meuse
They kept quiet. We won’t.Our new project takes a different turn. Brabant, the 1930s, the Gang of Oss, with a fictional protagonist set against real history.
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Late, but here
A first devlog, written just before the finish line.The first devlog for Het Laatste Dorp, written just before release. About how I work: a lot of iteration, endless testing, words that matter. And about the years of silence that came before, until AI helped me finally write again.
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A house with an open door
this is where it beganEverLingeringStories opens its doors. Briefly, quietly, without fanfare.
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