Written in retrospect, with the editor now nearly complete.
Talescape didn’t appear out of nowhere. I’ve been trying to build something like this for more than a decade: starting, failing, rebuilding, and coming back again. Back then I was just a junior developer, trying to create my own “RPG Maker,” far beyond what I actually knew how to do. Every attempt collapsed under its own ambition, but each left behind a small fragment of what would one day fit together.
Over the years, experience filled the gaps that talent and optimism couldn’t. I learned how to design systems that last, how to build for scale, and how to finish what I start. Talescape is the moment all of that finally came together. The same dream, rebuilt with the knowledge to make it real.
If you’re curious how far back this goes, there’s still a blog post from 2012 where I tried to build one of the earliest versions. A small “RPG Creator” built with Drupal. It didn’t work, but it marked the beginning of everything that followed.