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Post by jake frost on May 1, 2017 21:22:59 GMT
Yo, what's up, dudes. I'm here to announce my new project - The Walking Dead: Haven. Some of you might know of my TTGOT Season Two project, which started out as a couple of 'screenshots' outlining my idea for a second season and ended as a full-blown daily-post-of-ten-images project. I finished that project up back on Valentine's day, and now it's time for something new. Haven's been a collection of minor plot points in the back of my head for a year or so now - and by that, I mean one or two characters and a location. I brought up some vague idea to my best pal, Peggyoung, who helped me out with the Thrones project for 90% of its run and we started coming up with basic ideas and plotlines, as well as characters. Compared to the AU she has a far more executive role in the creation of Haven and I'm thankful for it because her writing balances mine out a fair bit. We've been planning and scripting since early January, and only got started on making the actual thing because RTB updated his model importer - but the wait period was beneficial in regards to making Haven well rounded, its plot line and message clear, and its characters memorable (hopefully readers will feel the same way). This is in stark contrast to the Thrones AU (and even ITF), where I threw myself into the deep end without much pre-planning. Now I won't lie, part of Haven's reason for existing is to give those who weren't exactly enthralled by Telltale's recent outings, particularly in regards to TWD. I'm not saying I intend to go three rounds with the writers of ANF or anything -- I just want to provide something that I enjoy and share it with those who hopefully will too. The project is going to be presented periodically in downloadable 'issues' (aka .PDF files) which you can read at your leisure. We haven't worked out how often issues will be released, but each group of 4-ish issues will form a 'Volume', similar to the TWD comics' or the game's Episodes. And here's a teasery (albeit a bit vague) plot description:Just hit me up with any questions you might have if you want me to clear stuff up. Hopefully you guys are as excited as I am; it's been great fun to make so far, and I'm really feeling that it's my best project to date. I'm looking forward to sharing more news with you all soon. PS: We also have a blog, and a wiki ('cause I lurv me a good wiki). ISSUES (Download Links)VOLUME 1: PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
VOLUME 2: SAFETY IN NUMBERS (Coming Soon)
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Post by thatstoo2019man on May 1, 2017 22:15:59 GMT
coolio
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Post by Niccc on May 1, 2017 22:35:19 GMT
Shweet, do we have a rough estimate of when this'll drop?
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Post by jake frost on May 1, 2017 23:03:35 GMT
Shweet, do we have a rough estimate of when this'll drop? Like 99% it'll be this month, but I also want to make up a decent backlog so it can come out regularly without extensive breaks.
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Post by o0HeaDShoT0o on May 2, 2017 0:47:34 GMT
This is looking very great, I am excited, and I am really looking forward to seeing what happens in this brand new story you and Peggyoung are about to start. Now, I have two question about this; At what point in the Walking Dead timeline will this take place? And will there be parts where you will let us readers vote on the choices like in the TTG Game of Throne Season 2 AU?
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Post by jake frost on May 2, 2017 2:08:27 GMT
Now, I have two question about this; At what point in the Walking Dead timeline will this take place? All I'm going to say right now is that Haven takes place after the events of ANF, but rest assured you'll get an exact date in Issue 1. And will there be parts where you will let us readers vote on the choices like in the TTG Game of Throne Season 2 AU? Regretfully not - while it's a novel idea, I found it extremely hard for there to be any semblance of choice impact in the S2AU as I made a lot of stuff in advance (and therefore extensive choice impact effectively doubles the workload unless it's dialogue-only). We don't want to lie to the readers about choices having impact so we decided to cut that aspect and leave Haven as a cleaner, more consistent story. Think of it as if you're reading a comic or something ; )
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Post by sos on May 2, 2017 2:10:13 GMT
Cool, I'll definitely be following along.
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Post by Tommy Angelo on May 2, 2017 7:06:56 GMT
I already love this.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2017 15:24:31 GMT
!!! Awesome, I can't wait for this! Into the Fray was really good, and I loved your TTGOT S2 AU(though I have yet to finish the epilogue, I'll get around to it as soon as my final papers are all finished), so I'm really looking forward to this!
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Post by jake frost on May 3, 2017 16:19:38 GMT
Thought I'd put this up before I shoot out to work:
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2017 17:05:52 GMT
Thought I'd put this up before I shoot out to work: y r u in this story?
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Post by Tormundo on May 3, 2017 18:25:48 GMT
Thought I'd put this up before I shoot out to work: Holy fucking crap dude This looks like a legit TT thing! I'm hyped!
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Post by Bioshock Infinite WD on May 3, 2017 18:29:57 GMT
Thought I'd put this up before I shoot out to work: Holy fucking crap dude This looks like a legit TT thing! I'm hyped! Man has the modeling come so far over the years.
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Post by Niccc on May 3, 2017 21:14:22 GMT
Jake, you are the fuckin' man. Also the guy looks STRANGELY similar to me, except less angry looking and I don't have that color hair.
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Post by jake frost on May 3, 2017 22:38:57 GMT
I'm not red-haired (probably doesn't show well here thanks to lighting) -- and I didn't even draw up the original concept art for the character. These two are my co-writer's creations & contributions. Holy fucking crap dude This looks like a legit TT thing! I'm hyped! The promo art is hopefully only going to get better. For this one I went with something simple, more akin to TWDG2 and TWDM's promo art, but when we have more characters to display I want to have more of an ensemble poster like ANF's (potentially the only good thing about that game XD) Jake, you are the fuckin' man. Also the guy looks STRANGELY similar to me, except less angry looking and I don't have that color hair. Best get used to that glare, my guy.
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