If you’ve been following our dev journey this year, you know we’ve been deep in playtesting; building and breaking systems, figuring out what this game actually is. Last month we circled back and spent more time developing the bite mechanic, so we don’t have a big gameplay drop this time. But that sparked another realization: we’ve never really talked about the world of the game. The setting, the story, and how it all comes together.

Most studios don’t dig into story this early. But since we started as an animation team, the world, tone, and characters have always been part of the foundation.

So this month, we’re going back to the beginning.

Not to explain everything, but just to crack the door open a bit and touch on some of the questions we get all the time.

Why a tropical island?
Why zombies that don’t want to be cured?
And why does this place feel like something worth protecting?

In this month’s devlog, I was invited as the lead writer, to talk through how me and the art team brought Porto Morto to life.