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Designer Notes 76: Tanya Short

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How to Write a Novel With an Antagonist

I wanted Eric to make you uncomfortable in a realistic way that I felt myself uncomfortable but not necessarily force an uncomfortable confrontation. The compromise was that I wasn't comfortable there was a briefly a scene where Eric actually breaks into your apartment and decorates it as a as like a Valentine's Day like treat he like makes it all romantic. There's no coming back from that once you know that this guy can come in your apartment like the whole game doesn't feel safe right. It's really if we had developed it not with a Kickstarter I think we probably would have stopped at like five characters. We were so visibly interested in diversity cutting any one of those characters would cause some kind of outcry because it

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