Volume 3 Is Coming on 2025/02/12!

Welcome back! It was a bit of a busy autumn, but I’m happy to announce we’re back with a Volume 3 of After Journey’s End, a free journal consisting of “Independent Game Designers writing about their Games’ Designs.” For an intro to what After Journey’s End is all about, see this introduction post.

This time, I’m pleased to writings by four game developers!! You can also find a list of these on Backloggd.

Ben Drury (drurylain): Northstar Courier (2022): Concrete, Trees, & Powerlines: Capturing the Photograph in Northstar Courier

Conor Walsh: Embers of Love: Writing What I Didn’t Know in There Swings a Skull: Grim Tidings (2022)

Pablo F. Quarta: Atuel (2022): A Dot and a Map: Utilizing Interactive 2D Maps in Pre-Production

Loren Schmidt: how to let people play your games: how to remember that you are not a tiny corporation

The issue will be out on February 12th, 2025! As always, this is entirely volunteer-run and contributed. The best way to support us is by sharing one of our volumes with a friend, on social media, or leaving a comment!