Darling Murders
I mentioned in a previous post that I had largely left The Queen Must Die untouched for the better part of a year. In that time I did push some imaginary cardboard around in my head as I lay in bed on a great number of nights, but both the IRL version and the TTS version remained untouched. This was all due to my early Covid crisis responsibilities and then, essentially, momentum. It was actually really useful time. I was – and kinda knew it at the time – overly connected to too much of the game. I desperately needed to trim. “Kill your darlings” they say. This is also a well-worn philosophy in film. It seems however that the psychology between taking a beloved scene out of a screenplay or an edit is very different from taking a favourite mechanic or phase out of a game. A lot of this difference is simply practical. Hit ‘delete’ and read or play the screenplay or film over and see what damage you’ve done and what has benefitted – apply fixes as necessary (which may actually be ‘just...