Naming of the Game
Coming up with a name for Quip Nebula was a fun challenge. The word Quip is a secret acronym that may be revealed at some distant future date. It’s the word intended to string a line of games together. So, you’ll be seeing lots of quipage for some time. So we needed a specific name for this game. […]
Quip Nebula: Setting
Working on the story for Quip Nebula has been a great challenge because of the setting I have set up for it. Again, taking the long view, I have long term reasons for the setting, universe, mechanics, and premise. Those came first to support what will come later. In the primordial universe there were entities called Quips. They […]
Why we’re not using an existing engine
There are a lot of great game engines out there. I decided not to use them for a number of reasons. Quip Nebula is just a beginning for us. It represents the first entry in an ambitious goal not only of a line of games spanning millions of years across the universe but also a vision of a […]