Josh describes Weeping Cedars as a horror puzzle where solving mysteries reveals worse things.
1. Weeping Cedars’ End of 2022 Update reviews the series’ completed work, community, funding, and planned projects.
2. Josh, the creator and speaker, explains production status, audience support, and the intended structure of Weeping Cedars.
3. The update asks how Weeping Cedars can continue while its creator develops several connected projects and pays contributors.
4. Phase One includes the final six episodes of Refugees of Esmeralda, titled Welcome to Weeping Cedars.
5. Welcome to Weeping Cedars is described as a canonically connected actual-play prequel to Weeping Cedars.
6. Laughing Cedars is a 10-episode comedic series placed between seasons one and two.
7. Josh says Dave’s fear of listening to Weeping Cedars inspired the more approachable concept behind Laughing Cedars.
8. Patreon material for Weeping Cedars seasons one, two, and three is currently available.
9. Phase Two concerns material mentioned in Into the Shadows and the way Into the Shadows concludes.
10. Planned projects include a second season of another horror series currently in research and writing.
11. Welcome to Virtue Vista Valley is planned as a four-to-five-episode documentary about a fictional children’s program.
12. Virtue Vista Valley follows Sam, who grew up with the television series from the 1960s and is an old man in 2022.
13. Josh compares Virtue Vista Valley to Sesame Street and Weeping Cedars, and elsewhere to Howdy Doody and Stephen King.
14. A novella set in the Weeping Cedars universe is planned for Patreon before becoming public chapter by chapter after three months.
15. Josh is also developing one or two short video games influenced by 1980s technology and the Weeping Cedars story.
16. He names Stories Untold and Andy’s Apple Farm as video-game influences, calling Stories Untold especially effective in its first three chapters.
17. Josh directs listeners to the Discord through allportsopen.com, where fans maintain a wiki and discuss unresolved Weeping Cedars questions.
18. He says Patreon and Ko-fi support are needed to fund writing, editing, production, distribution, and payment for actors.
19. Josh presents Weeping Cedars as a horror puzzle influenced by Silent Hill and Lovecraftian gloom.
20. Listeners uninterested in collaborative puzzles, audio horror, or connected fiction may skip this update.
