Another week has come and gone, and more progress on the game has been made. This week we did a lot of work on the content creation tools which is an area that often gets overlooked. The stories in the game of Survivor are probably my favorite aspect of the platform. It's important that when we relaunch the platform, there is an easy way for new content to be continually introduced. Many people don't know this, but the old content authoring tool was a native Mac application that was sort of cobbled together and really took quite a bit of work to use and understand. The new tools that we are creating are going to be web based and more intentional in terms of UX, so the team can make sure to keep new stories and content coming.

Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books were a staple of my life growing up, and I always found the interactive fiction aspect of them to be intriguing. As a reader/player, you have an element of choice over the story, and yet the author still has narrative control over where the story goes. The same is true of Survivor but when you combine that interactive fiction aspect with what is essentially a persistent open world, the blend feels almost magical. I realize this is a bit of self-hyperbole, but I really do love this platform because I feel like it's special. It's also why I'm so dedicated to relaunching it and trying to bring as many folks along with me for the ride.

Anyway, that's it for this week. I'm hoping next week we can finally unveil something that we're pretty excited about. Stay tuned!