Soul Sunder

Well, today is the one year anniversary of Soul Sunder's completion. Holy crap.

Here, I made a thing:

Redacted to prevent bleeding eyes.

It's been a while since I drew these three, so this was a nice trip back down memory lane. If only the actual game ended this cheerfully.

Let me be a little self-indulgent for a minute and just rant. I've been trying to find the best way to say this stuff without sounding like some Hollywood snob that just won an Oscar, but it's been difficult. So, screw it. I'm just gonna lay it all out.

I've been extremely lucky to have some of the best support imaginable over the course of development for this game. In addition to being featured in June of 2015, Soul Sunder was nominated for Best Storytelling and Direction, Best Characters, Best Atmosphere, and even the Game of the Year Misaos in 2014! Wut? I always thought that the major problems for this game (once I found them) would have been a dealbreaker, and ensured that Soul Sunder would have been lost and forgotten among the rest of the games on this site. Well, in a way, that's not wrong. I mean, it's not like the gameplay was the sole point of Soul Sunder. If it was, I'm pretty sure few would have even given it a glance.

Thanks to some amazing help from a bunch of fantastic people, though, that was not the case. unity, nhubi, Marrend, NeverSilent, CashmereCat, among others, have been so wonderful with their reviews, feedback, advice, and general support. Even now I still wonder why I, of all people, won the lottery of support, but it's thanks to them that I kept at it until the day I could mark this game as completed. I'll forever be grateful.

I'd like to give a big shout out to unity in particular, who has been supportive of this project since the first demo was released around this time two years ago. She has been absolutely invaluable to the game's success, and was patient enough to run through the game multiple times in order to give a constant stream of super helpful and constructive feedback. For those that weren't aware, due to the item scripts I used, all save files from the demos were incompatible with future updates and even the completed game, meaning that every time a new demo came out, players would have had to start from the beginning. But unity, in all her awesomeness, was patient enough to run through the entire game each time a new segment was ready for testing.

To say she has gone above and beyond with support would be an insulting understatement. unity, you're the best! \^o^/


Well, that's that. Thank you for reading, despite the self-indulgence. Thank you for playing, despite the many issues. And just... thank you in general, for being as awesome as you are.

Anyway, I forgot to mention it here like I said I would months ago, but the game page for the sequelnotsequel to Soul Sunder is up and ready for viewing, just in case you missed it.