First post!
Hello, random internet-viewer, and welcome to the official production diary for A Night Comes! -Square of the Moon- The Audio Drama. Wow, that’s a liiiiittle bit long. Let’s just shorten that to ANC, shall we? Anyway, if you’ve stumbled across this blog, the chances are that you know all about audio dramas and the audio drama itself, and so you can skip the next paragraph or two. However, if you’ve never heard of an audio drama and you’re wondering “what the hell is ‘A Night Comes’ and why does it have such a strange name?”, then read on, dear…reader.
First, I’ll steal the definition for “audio drama” from Wikipedia, since every time I’ve tried explaining the concept, it devolves into “It’s like watching a TV show without the picture! Wait, no. Okay, uh…you know War of the Worlds, right? Like on the radio back before TVs? It’s like that. ” which usually leads to the person asking “Cool! So what radio station is it on?” “Uhh…” Whoa, digression. Anyway, Wikipedia in its infinite wisdom defines an audio drama as “a dramatic performance written and performed specifically for audio presentation. It had its greatest popularity on radio, before television was introduced.” Except these days there aren’t many radio stations playing things like The Shadow or War of the Worlds, so most people who are interested in the medium go the route of posting their productions up on the internet, whether it be via podcast or uploading it to a streaming audio website. From there, it can be downloaded and enjoyed by anyone willing to listen, so the process of making a production available to everyone is pretty painless. Creating an audio drama, however, is a completely different story…
And that’s what this blog is about; the creative process behind writing, casting, mixing, promoting, and distributing an audio drama. A Night Comes! -Square of the Moon- The Audio Drama is the story about a group of high school teenagers who have special abilities and use them to fight the Kasha, demons that appear due to a second moon that appears in the sky three years before the story begins. “X-Men with an anime twist” is what I’ve seen it described as, and really, that’s probably the best description for it. The plot sounds basic and paper-thin, but like any good story, what lurks beneath a lackluster summary lies an intricate and (attention: bias approaches!) fantastic story involving betrayal, friendship, heartbreak, surprises, and the occasional erased memory. I heard you groan a little there, oh weary role-playing gamer, but there’s no amnesiac hero in this story. I promise.
I’ll be posting anything in this blog from full blown ramblings about the story itself, my random musings about characters, and status updates as to when the next episode will be done. As of this post, six episodes are complete and episode seven is waiting in the wings. I think now’s a good time to stop for this introductory post. The next post will be about the audio drama came to be (and almost wasn’t!), and about the difficulties of adapting an existing story enough that it’s mostly considered your own. Stay tuned!
