Hi, Today I've had lunch with Karen - she is a very experienced story writer, she worked with David & I in the past on a MMO (Ryzom) and since then to various projects including Ankama (Dofus, Wakfu). She is also very talented, so I've tried to see if there is something on which we could work together, to see how it would go.
We discussed the possibility for her to work on the overall storyline, to help refine and develop some of the concepts we have been discussing or experimenting lately. I don't know yet if or how this would work, though, we didn't completely discussed the specifics. So before seeing her again, I'd like your opinion. David, Alex -- since you both worked on the storyline, would you mind if we bring an extra pair of hands? Everyone -- do you think it's a good time to work on the storyline? Also, there is the question of the format of Karen's potential contribution. The usual format is writing a full "bible", giving all the context, characters, events, etc. However this doesn't fit well with our iterative process, writing a full bible now would likely result in having to throw away most of it the next time we get players to give feedback on the game. So Karen talked about writing a kind of "modular bible", that would contain general principles and some elements, but that would be able to survive concept changes. Opinions or ideas welcomed on that point! Xavier.
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