"what happened to him?"
"he died of the plague."
"aw man I thought we had a cure for that?"
"it stepped on him"

It takes something that originally broke immersion, and turns it into a tool FOR immersion. It's so cool, and utterly impossible to do without both having a reactive medium like videogames, and being really aware of how gamebooks are played.

Please, play the Sorcery! adaptation. It's a masterpiece.

You've definitely got this! Keep at it and be strong. All of the snippets I've seen you share so far have been fantastic, you should be nothing but proud.

Being met with silence after putting your work out there can be horribly frustrating, but don't lose hope!

Windswept Desire is published, it is read, and is bringing joy to those who are reading it, I'm sure. These are all huge victories. Give people time and they will get back to you, I'm sure.

And finally the Voices, being a species in its childhood, are still catching up to everyone else in the spacefaring community. They cultivate good relations with the UNCA and leverage those to hire talent from all across the galaxy to come in and teach them. Steadily, they're getting there!

The beastgods of Regrilles, as far as anyone can tell, have mastered genetic engineering to the point of spitting on the concept of "species". Or maybe they're godlike entities? Do they even exist at all? The debate rages on.

They rank among the galaxy's most remarkable agricultural scientists and terraformers, as well as social scientists (historians, sociologists, political scientists, archeologists, etc.)

Regrillians, as mentioned before, train exceptional engineers and mechanics, though not en masse.

Overall, the galaxy is both vast and varied, while at the same time fractured enough that technological advancement does not percolate freely between factions.

To call back to factions I've mentioned before:

Tellari hide surprisingly advanced technology under their more grounded aesthetic sense.

Most factions are in the comfortable middle between these two extremes, with some variance. The UNCA and Cadres hold some impressive technology, especially the latter, whereas other factions have found their happy place in cozy agrarian/pastoral communities and stayed there.

This can go from "sufficiently advanced science" types to some species still in their version of the stone age, with everything in between. In general, these species are left to their own devices until they develop a means to communicate with the interstellar community.

They are a naturally curious and easygoing species that likes to reach out and learn about other sentients! So they have their own ancestral belief systems, but it's quite common that in their attempts to learn about others, they end up connecting to their religions more than they do their own.

Robocod! I remember playing it with my friends and really loving the Christmas theming. I don't think I ever reached the end, though--there are some later levels with some horrible background effects that made me have to stop playing after a while.

Precisely!

Many thanks!