{"id":689,"date":"2026-04-24T12:20:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/?p=689"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:20:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:20:54","slug":"devs-journal-24-apr-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Dev&#8217;s Journal &#8211; 24 Apr 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Eldritch 2<\/em>\u00a0is coming to Steam! Please wishlist it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2279280\/Eldritch_2\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a lot to share today; my week has been a little scattered between <em>Eldritch 2<\/em> work, job search stuff, and a healthy amount of Real Life\u2122.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of my work on <em>Eldritch 2<\/em> this week has been in preparation for pitching to publishers\/funds. Pitching is one of the few things in game development that I&#8217;ve never done before, so I&#8217;ve had to do a lot of research (with a little help from my friends) to make sure I know what to present. I still do not actually have a deck ready to go, but I feel confident in the budget and timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping to wrap that up today or this weekend, and get back to development next week. I want to start building out the meta\/progression systems of <em>Eldritch 2<\/em>. It&#8217;s a key part of the game&#8217;s main quest, and a feature that wasn&#8217;t present in the original game, and it could dramatically change the way the game plays over the long term. <em>Eldritch 2<\/em> is still fundamentally a roguelite, but I think it may also end up having a bit of a single-player extraction shooter flavor with this addition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eldritch 2\u00a0is coming to Steam! Please wishlist it\u00a0here. I don&#8217;t have a lot to share today; my week has been a little scattered between Eldritch 2 work, job search stuff, and a healthy amount of Real Life\u2122. Most of my work on Eldritch 2 this week has been in preparation for pitching to publishers\/funds. Pitching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eldritch-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}