#devblogs

I know someone else has already done this work elsewhere, but for the life of me I couldn't find it. So, I've put together a comprehensive list of all of the devblog short stories and in-universe epistolary-type documents (documents, journals, dossiers, missives, personnel files, communications, etc). Short stories are bolded and marked, in case you're only looking for those.

2.0 - 7.2

SIS Intel Report: Key locations overview of the planet Makeb

Imperial Intelligence Report: Persons of Interest on Makeb

Facilities: Take a Virtual Tour

A Letter from Special Executive Rasmus Blys

WORK WITH PRIDE. WORK WITH CZERKA.

CZ-198 and the State of Czerka Corporation

CZ-198 – Meet the Staff

HoloNet News Exclusive Interview: Baron Deathmark

HoloNet News Exclusive Interview: Baron Deathmark, Part 2

A Record of the Dread Masters

The Search for Oricon

HoloNet News Exclusive Interview: Baron Deathmark

IMPERIAL EDICT GR-1NC4

Additional Personnel Files

Four More Picks for You

RE: Kuat Drive Yards

EMERGENCY ALERT: Rakghoul Plague Outbreak on Alderaan – AVOID ALDERAAN!

State of the Galaxy

Since KOTOR: Manaan

Lana Beniko’s Journal: Darth Arkous

"Surface Details" (short story)

"WANTED: DEAD AND DISMANTLED" (short story)

"Remnants" (short story)

The Revanites’ Ascendance

"Bedtime on Concordia" (short story)

Rishi: Places of Interest

Raider’s Cove: Persons of Interest

"The Price of Power" (short story)

"One Night in the Dealer’s Den" (short story)

"The Final Trial" (short story)

Go Big, Go Small, Go Nowhere

"Regrets" (short story)

"The Sixth Line: Part One" (short story)

"The Sixth Line: Part Two" (short story)

"Vacation" (short story)

"Brothers" (short story)

"A Mother's Hope" (short story)

"Trading Scars" – A Short Story on Umbara (short story)

"Copero Short Story Blog" (short story)

Jedi Under Siege: State of the Galaxy

Dantooine Tactical Report

"Quite A Story To Tell" (short story)

"Seeing Red" (short story)

Intelligence Report: Historical Analysis of Manaan

Mission Abstract: Investigate link between Darth Malgus and the planet Elom

"All That’s Left" (short story)

"Bottled Fury" (short story)

there is nothing wrong with being without a lover but the thought of living so many years with no single person to go to for everything and anything is unappealing to me

The public still does not quite understand what games are and what we do. As gamedevs, we are in a bubble - a sphere that only overlaps with players during the state of play. Whatever they are exposed to inside of that state that impacts them, they take back into the real world. 

But all the stuff that goes on behind the scenes, with the exception of the most intense fans, the public does not care about it because there’s no way for them to really easily walk across and chew on what we do. 

In the short run this poses an interesting problem because it leads to game development being both a blessing and a curse. 

Its a curse because if you are not the person molding the perception of your industry the public fills in the blanks and anything can slip up in there including lowering the value of what you do, a lack of appreciation, or worse an intense fear of manipulation. 

People outside of gaming view game developers as anything from people who refuse to grow up to evil social engineers who make kids addicted to screens and drop out of school.

And that is just simply not an accurate picture at all. 

I say all this because I took a break this week from working on my game to present a paper on game developer communties. It got a nice reception and made it into the top three at the event. The feedback I got afterwards was extremely eye opening and why I am writing this post. 

Next week I dive into the digital world. I’m kind of dreading it because I feel very foolish. Part of me is overthinking how I should just jump in instead of jumping in. One of the reasons why I guess I am so anxious is because I’ve been running into a lot of bad tutorials/a lack of tutorials on stuff I want to do. 

Which indicates that what I want to do might be too advance and I need to cut back - something that gamedevs come across all the time. 

I have a lot on my mind, especially in regards to mental illness and the tech industry and how easy it is for people to be milked to death of their brilliance and that’s getting in the way of me just focusing on finding fun. 

I realized after removing and transforming my physical space that a lot of my distraction was to keep me from thinking about very harmful stuff that happened to me a long time ago. 

My childhood and young adult years sucked. When I look at the symptoms of PTSD and related disorders there’s a shit load there that I can tick off but casually dismiss because I think trauma is really common. So common that it just gets brushed off until circumstances are so extreme that a person can no longer perform basic functions.