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Video Update

Good afternoon!

The Pathways Into Darkness video is out and done. I was originally just going to cover it as a bit of a weird footnote for talking about Marathon as a trilogy, but since that's separated out I figured it was noteworthy enough to be worth its own video. On that note we're strictly in "no news is good news" territory, as the video on Marathon 2 will be out sometime in early July. I'll be out of town for about a week in the beginning of next month, so it'll...

Next Video Questions

The credit questions for the next video will be taken from the comments below. It's still some weeks out, but I want to start getting them collected before the month ends in case some people only pledged for May

Thanks as always!

Upcoming Video Stuff

Afternoon!

The Marathon video is done and out, and I'm very glad I was doing enough outlining for a general trilogy video as juggling all of this together is a doozy. Everything with the eyes went well, though it'll be some weeks or months until I see light fully properly again. The especially good news on this front is it's made editing videos especially more tolerable at a be...

Next Video Poll

Howdy!

Eyes are recovering good so far (things just look a bit blurry today) but the time has come for the poll. As I said in the last post, the next video can either be a video on Bungie's Marathon which should be out around the end of the month, or a longer video covering the entire trilogy since there's quite a bit of lore fuckery to go over. Longer version likely wouldn't be til next month since it's a 3-in-1 but I'd post a WIP version focused around the first Marat...

Update on Videos

Howdy.

I actually can't fathom it's been near 2 months since the last proper post. I'm actually not sure how the pause might work for actually accessing these right now, so to avoid feeling like I'm talking into the void more than usual I'm setting this one to public for now (I think the proper period passed, so now it's back to the Patron circles).

Without getting into details, a combination of things happening right after the "taking a break" post made life pret...

Next Credit Questions

The credit questions for the next video will be taken from the comments below. I'm not sure what the video will actually be. I did try Neuro Hunter over the last bit and couldn't stand it so it probably won't be that.

Thanks as always! I'll be back. 

Upcoming Break and What This Means

Evening everybody!

First of all, congratulations to Sleepy for winning the last art contest. It ended up being a way tougher choice than I imagined, and ironically some of those non-winners might appear when I close my eyes at night when I'm sleepy.

In bigger news, the Patreon is going to be paused in April. It's actually been a pretty long time since that happen...

Warhammer 3 Copy Contest

The weekend is nearly here.

I caught up on a ton of sleep these past few days, but I'm more awake now and do have a copy of Total War Warhammer 3 to give out in a contest. Though be wary that there have been some reports of performance being pretty bad since launch. I actually benchmarked it myself right after the video was done, and comparing to launch day with new GPU drivers I actually lost performance too so something weird is going on with it possibly related to De...

Warhammer 3 Art Assets

Morning everyone!

I was out like a log when the Warhammer 3 video was all said and done. Might not end up covering DLC stuff in the future with it since the work to time ratio stretches me and this was definitely the roughest of all. I wasn't able to work with as many people on this one compared to 2 due to NDA stuff and just the time constraint, but a lot of stuff still got made and the full-res art stuff is available here.

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Warhammer 3 Credit Questions

As always, these will be gathered from the comments below. Still working at the edit like a madman.

Thank you all so much! 

Total War Warhammer 3 Update

Afternoon!

I am bound and foreverial tiedup delitized by NDAs on this one so this post will be one of the shortest. I'm not part of the usual content affiliate people so I have to be extra careful on what I say (for now) since I'm under a lot of scrutiny with different terms, but I can confirm I'm working on the Warhammer 3 video. I don't plan for it to be nearly as long as the one for 2, but it's going to be a bigger project and I have some other hands helping me with ...

Homeworld Cataclysm Credit Questions

Homeworld (with horror) is on the way! Video won't be out til next week but I'm collecting these now since I might end up having to render some things more in advance of the release than usual. As always questions will be collected for the credits from the comment section below.

New Year's Plans

Hope your Christmas (or whatever went on for you this month) went well!

May New Year's Eve go smoothly for you all too. It being on a Friday is especially dangerous, but I think we're all survivors here.

So I've gotten some good information over the past week when I wasn't running ragged from everything else going on, so here's the imminent schedule. The Homeworld Cataclysm video will be done around mid/late January, as now that a lot of people got introduced to t...

Homeworld Credit Questions

Space comes to us soon. As always questions will be collected for the credits from the comment section below.

UPDATE: Backend issues, looks like the video will be out next week instead. It'll be a bit of a longer one anyways, but the end of the year post will go into more details.

Thank you!

Next Video Status & Patreon Merchandise Discount

November's nearly over!

I hope the Americans out there are recovering from Thanksgiving and bracing for the horrible weekend traffic, and that everyone else out there is having a good time having a giggle at our current clown show. On the rarely mentioned merchandise front, it turned out that Teespring had discontinued some things and reshuffled some other backend stuff around ...

Dead Space Extraction Credit Questions

November begins my hellish hours, but as always questions will be collected for the credits from the comment section below.

Thank you!

Dead Space Extraction and After

Good afternoon! 

I hope those of you who managed to actually complete the Anonymous Agony video are recovering well. The next line up will be much more relatively normal compared to whatever was going on there.

Up next is Dead Space Extraction, likely to be out next week. Ended up going back to replay the game again on a harder difficulty, and while there's no foam f...

Anonymous Agony Bonus Assets

Happy Halloween! Hope your weekend looks spooky and fun.

While some other stuff is still cooking, for the Anonymous Agony video I didn't want to go too ridiculous on some of the collaborative type elements since the game itself is nearly impossible to upstage, but here are some of the things that got made. 

The attached link is the first version of Extellus' intro animation, which has plenty to find scattered around the shelves and the table. Among the docume...

Halloween Adventure Game Q&A

The dark work will be done in time for Halloween. As always questions will be collected for the credits from the questions below.

Thank you!

Halloween Approaches

Hope your October is going well!

While I thought I might have time to get a second video in before the big one, but I decided it would be for the best to move it into November so that I could fully focus on the Halloween adventure game since there's a lot to cover. I'm not sure the exact date it'll be out at this point, but it'll be done before the month is over. Due to the very special nature of the game collaborators on it will be more limited compared to the...

Lighthouse Credit Questions

As always, questions for the credit section will be collected from the comments below. Video is aiming to be out next week, but I'll collect them now just in case.

Thank you for your support!

Spooky Videos Begin

Good evening!

In a twist of fate, the very day after I looked at the Steam page for Kingdom Under Fire 2 it was ripped down as the game is being shut down this month. Guess the series only becomes more obscure in the west.

After juggling things around, the first video for October is going to be No One Lives Under the Lighthouse, which actually got a recent revamp in mid-September that remade the second half of the game and changed a lot around, so between that and...

Kingdom Under Fire Credit Questions

As always, questions for the credit section will be collected from the comments below.

Thank you for your support!

Next Video Gets Medieval

Good Afternoon!

The next video was a tossup between Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders and a much more obscure one I finally managed to find, but KUF has pulled ahead. When I had asked a friend how long the campaign was, it turned out he was referring to a single campaign and KUF has four of them. Oops. To make matters more complicated, this is one of those games that got a sequel a year later that's basically the same game with some improvements so I'm going to...

RUINER Credit Questions

As always, questions for the credit section will be collected from the comments below.

Thank you for your continued support!

RUINER and What's After

Good evening!

A short post this time around. RUINER is all on schedule since I played the hell out of it and it's currently being edited. Might have some issues with the music but I'm hoping to resolve that on the backend and have the video out before the weekend. With luck Kingdom Under Fire should be out in September, and then after will be a bit hard to tell until I get clos...

System Shock 2 Alternate Cover Art

Afternoon!

The System Shock 2 video is out, though I wasn't able to look at any Enhanced Edition stuff so that'll have to wait for the future. However, I was waiting on EE for quite a while and was hoping it'd be out last year, and in that time I had some alternate covers for the game commission by a professional artist in the key art field, Dakota Lee, so here's some of the WIP stuff we went through.

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System Shock 2 Credit Questions

As always, questions for the credit section will be collected from the comments below.

Thanks for your support!

System Shock 2 Status

The votes are tallied, and System Shock 2 pulled ahead! 

No worries about the other entries, as they're ones I'm hoping to have done by the year's end or at least early next year so they're still not too far off. Also congratulations to ninetails1 for his lizard drawing he was too shy to post publicly. 

System Shock 2 is a game I play again roughly every two yea...

Poll for Next Video & Total War DLC Contest

Good afternoon!

Couldn't post too much about how the DLC stuff was going due to NDAs and other fun agreements. Review content is the absolute last thing they lift embargo on so I have to be careful not to be saying too much on how I think things are until that's done or else it could be interpreted as "review content". I'm eternally glad I rarely have to deal with this kind of thing. A lot of people ended up liking the idea of Lizard XCOM, and it turns out there actuall...