Foolish Earth Creatures: November 2025
Behold the face of Vorak!
This month I've finally got round to replacing my hand-drawn placeholder image with a set of placeholder images of Vorak with different facial expressions. After various attempts at drawing these or looking for appropriate stock art, I finally realised I could just...use emojis. So these are all created by using the Emojipedia emoji mashup page to combine the alien face emoji with various expressions.
To be clear, these are still placeholders, and I'll commission some real art for the final game—but now I can finally have Vorak's expression change based on what's happening.
Apart from mashing emojis together, I've spent most of the month rewriting the chapter where you crash land on the moon after destroying Vorak's command ship. This included fleshing out the character of General Zorg, the giant alien cyborg who leads Vorak's ground forces.
I also revised the chapter where the hero is captured and Vorak interrogates them (or rather, monologues at them). This one needed hardly any changes from the playtest version.
My plan now is to focus on writing chapters that form a single path through the whole game, rather than writing all the alternative early-game chapters before I move on to the mid-game chapters, etc. Once I've got a complete path through the game written I'll go back and write the chapters for alternative paths.
Will the new faces of Vorak inspire our hero to complete his project? Learn more in next month's thrilling developer diary!