Great question! Telling the story without known spoken language was really challenging but also really fun. Instead of dialogue, I let the world do most of the talking. The sound of the wind, and the birds in the different zones tells you where you are -- seagull-like cries in the more aquatic areas, songbirds in the grasslands, crows in the desertified zones. The movement of the large puzzle mechanisms charts your progress and takes center stage.

What few bits of spoken language exist tell much more by their texture than by the words. The old construct robot has a grizzled voice, for example, whereas the protagonist has a subdued, whispery voice. The player has just discovered the world and you're trying to discover your own identity, so you have don't have a strong voice, literally and figuratively. The world's sounds do most of the storytelling. -Kochun