Devlog 10: Double Digits and a FRAGMENT Recap

It's 8:30 AM and we've officially hit double digits. Ten devlogs. I figured since I'm still mostly shouting into the void, I should probably do a quick recap of everything I've laid out so far, just in case someone actually stumbles onto this blog and doesn't want to scroll through a week of my morning ramblings.

So, the world is FRAGMENT. It's this high-contrast, glitch-tech wasteland that's basically a computer program crashing in real-time. The big problem is the Null—this nasty black goop filled with white crystalline shards that acts like a digital parasite. It rewrites everything it touches, including people.

We've got a few big players in this mess. ANCHOR are the gold-and-white surveillance freaks who want to delete the infection by any means necessary. ECO are the underground hackers using green Hyasynth vines to try and "patch" the world. Then you've got the Null Hierarchy, the people who've embraced the glitch and are turning into something else entirely.

Our main guy is Minus. He’s high-ranking in the Hierarchy, but he's terrified of losing his mind to the code. His left arm is a total mess of shards and corruption, and he's starting to realize that nobody—not ANCHOR, not ECO—actually has the right answer. He’s ended up in this weird, secret alliance with a rogue ECO spy named Specter. She’s the only one talking about "defragmenting" the world before a terminal-error entity called Anomaly just wipes the whole save file.

I’ve also started fleshing out the side characters like Onyx, the heavy-hitter merc with the hardened shadow armor, and Spark, who uses yellow crystals to move like a glitch. Then there’s Nocturne, the one who thinks the Null is a gift. It's a five-way cold war where everyone thinks they're the hero of the story, and they're all probably wrong.

I'm still looking for animators or anyone who digs this kind of vibe, because seeing Minus’s face dissolve into visual static during a fight scene is something I need to see on a screen. For now, it’s just me, my coffee, and a lot of messy notes. Thanks for sticking around if you're actually reading this. Back to the drawing board tomorrow.

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