Art
How Leo came to look like Leo
Three months, five designs, two rejected turnaround sheets and one last animation pass. Every attempt Ascension's protagonist went through, including the ones that did not survive.
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Devlog
Building Ascension, told from the inside: decisions, mistakes and progress.
Design
Why I locked the entire design before producing a single screen
253 monsters, 22 dungeons, 110 weapons and 51 script events exist on paper before the game does. Here is the reasoning, and what it cost me.
Narrative
The chronicler's book: when a screen transition rewrites the game
I decided that changing screens should mean turning a page. That single decision ended up defining pausing, saving, chapters and the voice narrating the whole game.