State of Godclads, Critiques, and Upcoming Project (Patreon)
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Greetings,
As the Hidden Empire volume of Godclads begins, we will be expanding the cast, crew, and way the story is told. Avo's point of view will be kept, but as he increasingly a memetic plague rather than a person, we're going to start getting "third-second point of views" as he mantles parts of himself in various minds and people and guides them away (or into danger).
This means that the insight into the city is going to broaden in a sort of single protagonist + epic fantasy cast style expansion. So if you have favorite characters and jumping povs while also liking the story to be centered around Avo, you might just get your cake and eat it too.
With the coming chapters, there will also be a new progression element I call: [INFECTION]
Effectively, it is how much of the city has been affected by the Burning Dreamer, or how much of his spread has been repelled.
Not many stories where the most heroic individual is a metaphysical mind-infecting thoughtplague, but we go wild here in Godclads. Just think of this progression fantasy as gaining some RTS and Stellaris/XCOM aspects to it.
I also recommend the story Blood Music if you want to see some wild high concept sci fi.
On this note, I would like to invite some critiques or criticisms about Godclads and what could be improved. Looking back at the past few volumes, there are parts of the story that aren't as tight. The pacing is a bit jank in places. Part of this comes with writing while tired sometimes and also producing content daily, so I'm trying to improve my methods and apply more detail and character work with how things progress.
Feel free to let me know what you want to see more of. What you liked. What you didn't. All feedback is welcome.
Finally, I'm finally solidifying elements for my second series, so if you see a non-godclads/main chapter entry, you might be in for something else. I'd like to describe as an counter System Apocalypse running on a conceptual cultivation/Disco Elysium skill system, so stay tuned for that.
In the meantime, I'm going to try and fix my fried brain. More stuff to come.