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Retrospective on my No Man& #39;s Sky work... In 2017, I joined with the Pathfinder update, the game& #39;s second major patch. I wrote a quest about a heretic priest, hunted by their warrior-species, who abandons their family to flee to your world. It had a big moral choice.
Then, I started work on a big story update for the game, Atlas Rises, that added the game& #39;s 30 hour long main story campaign. In advance of it, I wrote a sequence of online logs about a character named Artemis. It was the first time I saw fan art of something I& #39;d worked on!
Later that year, Atlas Rises came out. It was the biggest thing I& #39;d ever worked on and I was grateful for the game& #39;s reception. The player meets three travellers, including the aforementioned Artemis, discovering the secrets of an infinite universe and again, making hard choices.
I also worked on a lot of other lore for that update, including writing new storylines for a lot of the base NPCs, including a Gek Overseer with a hidden past, a Vy& #39;keen seeking final glory, a scientist separated from his hive mind. Remembrance, boundary failures, Telamon, etc
I wasn& #39;t involved in all of the updates after that, but have contributed here and there. One lesser known lore piece is one of my favourites -- the story of a damaged Sentinel named Laylaps, journeying through a world of glass. Also added more boundary failure logs along the way
More recently, I worked on the Captain& #39;s Logs for Desolation, found on haunted vessels throughout the stars.
Cheery stuff:
“We threw the Mech-Priest out of the airlock. It improved all our moods, just like we hoped… Twenty eight bodies now dance, frozen in the solar winds…& #39;“
Cheery stuff:
“We threw the Mech-Priest out of the airlock. It improved all our moods, just like we hoped… Twenty eight bodies now dance, frozen in the solar winds…& #39;“
And the recent run of weekend missions, with the last one I wrote coming out this weekend. The Nexus NPCs were really fun to write, a little almost-murder-mystery storyline of paranoia and lore tidbits.
I& #39;ve really enjoyed working on the game and hope people have enjoyed also -- it& #39;s been great to come back to over time. And if you& #39;ve not tried it yet: No Man& #39;s Sky has this whole story, created by multiple writers and devs travelling together across the years 
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