Scraps from the Notebook: "Dog in the Vineyard"

[queenlua]

I love looking at artists' sketchbooks and works-in-progress - there's just something so fun about seeing the lines and shapes in a rough sketch, or watching how a project progresses and changes as it gets closer to completion

Comments

[amielleon]

I love reading authors' notes! When I do it myself I sort of feel like, "Man, Ammie, you're being quite vain," but I do it anyway I guess. But, yeah, I enjoy seeing them from other people a lot.

I believe the line about his nobility comes from the developer's notes, and I agree with your call on that one. I have no better evidence than just "vibes," but I feel like Leonardo's "fall from grace" was already something he'd come to terms with by the time of Radiant Dawn, perhaps also through Edward.

And I completely agree with how you handled the resolution of his racism. Although I admit that generally I hate "someone tells someone off" as a resolution anyway -- it often seems to me that the temptation for a writer to put the moral right out in the open in the dialogue is too strong.

[queenlua]

Pshaw, it ain't vain. I think this stuff is neat, and you think so too... so other people do, right? /self-justification

And yeah, the bit about nobility came from the designer's notes - there's so little Leonardo background given in the game itself that I found myself scrounging around for anything I could find, and even then I still got to just make up big chunks of his past, which was delightful.