Now

This is what I’m up to as of Jan 6, 2024.

  • Playing Space Quest for my next narrative analysis video. The 1986 original, not the VGA remake.
  • Binged Severance over the free AppleTV weekend. It was great, and now I’ll need to subscribe when season 2 is all out.
  • I’ve launched a new mailing list via Mailster.
  • Kitchen and bathroom sinks have been clogged since 12-30. Property management company is having a plumber come over on the 2nd on the 6th.
  • I’ve been reading comics via Marvel Unlimited for the past couple years, starting with Fantastic Four . I’m currently caught up to early 2015, the point at which the company is trying to position the Inhumans as a replacement for mutants due to Fox still owning the rights to the X-Men. I’m tempted to start over or do a DC readthrough instead. For now I persist.
  • Kathy Rain 2, a game that I did some narrative design work for, is in Beta. I’m looking forward to the release; it’s a cool adventure game, and a nice credit for my CV. I am as yet unemployed.
  • I’ve come up with a production schedule. Working on videos in the morning, then switching to game dev in the early afternoon.
  • I’m going to make a go of being a full-time solo game developer in 2025. This will involve scaling up from the week-long and month-long projects I’d been creating as profile pieces to games that’ll take me 3-6 months to complete – something substantive enough that I feel like I can charge for it.
  • I’ve also moved all my game dev videos to a different channel.
  • I still live in Chicago with my girlfriend and our cats, Sidhe and Fog. We’re all unemployed at the moment.
  • I’ve picked up a copy of Stephen King’s “Bag of Bones” to try and get myself back into the habit of reading again. Thus far I have yet to accomplish this.
  • I’ve paused the novel I was working on. The financial situation is a bit dire to spend time on a project that won’t see returns for a year or longer. This is one of the realities of being a commercial artist.
  • I’ve deleted my Twitter, don’t post to facebook, and neglect Mastodon. I am currently posting to Bluesky, where my account has somehow accrued 2k followers. I think I’ve ended up on a lot of lists. I’ll be trying to engage there more frequently.

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