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Update: Current Project is VILE
Hello everyone,I'd meant to write this update sooner, but I wanted to be sure in what I was doing before writing this.I am underway on the new project now which will be on a game called VILE: EXHUMED. It's a recently released horror game that, in short, was wrongfully banned from Steam days before it was due to release for "sexual content with depictions of real people."This is despite, in the developers own words, "there is no uncensored nudity, no depictions of sex acts, an...
New Video: Life Eater - A Horror Kidnapping Simulator
https://youtu.be/qeI8MxtQvSsHappy upload day. I brought you a game that's kinda dark and grim.I played this last year, and hilariously forgot some key things about the game's story since then. It's an interesting game, though I'm more mixed on it than usual. I don't quite have the gushing effusive praise for every facet of it like I do for other short horror games. But boy do I have still have a whole basket of character analysis to go alongside it!I'll have an update pos...
Submit Questions for the Life Eater video!
--QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN COLLECTED. THANK YOU--This video should be out this week, though there's still some work to be done that might get in the way . But regardless, it's best to collect questions early rather than late.Submit one (1) question down in the commentsand I'll take them from there and answer them in the video. You can submit questions on anything you want, though I may not be able to answer every question. Thank you for understanding.See you all soon- Jack
Update: To Avoid Spinning Wheels, Don't Drive in Deep Mud
Hello everyone. I hope you're all doing well.Cutting right to the point, I think I've been making some bad and unhealthy decisions that have been contributing to the poor health and output of myself.I have been trying to wrestle with Doom The Dark Ages for a video project, but a lot of factors have resulted in me thinking this isn't a good idea right now, for myself and in general. It was turning out too big for a start, and while I believed it necessary to explore the wider context ...
New Video: Steamy Demos June 2025
https://youtu.be/o_O8vB0OKVsAnd we're back with another helping of demos. I got most of this done before the festival began and before I needed to do my own business. While I was away from my PC I was still a bus ride away and so took the time to ride over and work a bit more on the video. This meant my work-from-home job developed a commute, which was amusing and also not amusing. I had to weather a storm to get an 8mb audio file I had forgotten to transfer over the day before just so I can...
Submit Questions for the Steamy Demos June 2025 video!
--QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN COLLECTED. THANK YOU--It's time for demos once again! How time flies. Oh god how time flies.I have a good sample of demos already made and recorded because this is actually an incredibly busy week for me on personal affairs. Still some work to do and this means there's a chance this video might be later than usual. Going to try and make sure this isn't the case without running myself off my feet.I'll also give a full update on what's been happening with ...
Update: Navygating the Labyrinth
Hello everyone. I hope you're doing well.It's been about a month since Proximate came out so I thought I'd update you all on what I'm doing.In terms of projects I mentioned in the last post, I have slimmed things down somewhat in order to keep myself productive.Life is Strange: Double Exposure is getting shelved until I have nothing else on my plate. I need to be able to sit down and focus entirely on it. Too many moving parts and swimming thoughts. I could have put everything el...
New Video: PROXIMATE - The Horror of Uncertainty
https://youtu.be/D55fuKfEEG8It's finally done. And I just about made March!I had to finish my video on this. It was a smaller game that deserved the attention. It captured my thoughts and cut me deeply when I had been feeling numb to everything. It even felt like it was directly targeting me at times. I had to finish this, no matter what.I am happy with the video. It is maybe longer than it needs to be, but rather than taking it to the drawing board and reconfiguring things to make it work w...
Submit Questions for the Proximate Video!
--QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN COLLECTED. THANK YOU--It's almost done. There's still some things I want to do with it so I can't commit to an exact date, especially with a busy weekend coming up, but it's nearly there now. It's grown, shrunk, been cut here and there, and it's still ended up being just shy of 50 minutes long. It's probably longer than it needs to be, but I think it needs to just come out already.Submit one (1) question down in the commentsand I'll take them...
New Video: Steamy Demos Feb '25
https://youtu.be/yuJThHh_q5QFresh Steamy Demos for you all.This video is slightly longer than the previous ones. This wasn't intentional. It just worked out that way. Frankly I would have made this even longer as there were some I just didn't have time to write and edit sections for like Skin Deep and Deliver At All Costs. This is the reality of production however, and I think I have the shiniest highlights for me here.So this got done before the Proximate video, but that should be done ...
Submit Questions for the Steam Next Fest Feb '25 video!
--QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN COLLECTED. THANK YOU--So this video won the race. Proximate is likely to be March instead. Progress has been good but recent events have made it grow somewhat. I'll get more into that when I have this video done.I have a bunch of things played and recorded already. I'm having a slight problem in that there's possibly too many good things to talk about with this Next Fest? I'll see what I can fit in whilst sticking to my regular deadline of trying to get it d...
Proximate Draft (or half of one) and Bad January
Hello there. Hope you're all doing well.First thing's first, I'm coming here with a draft of the next video, or half-ish of a draft. It's on a game called Proximate. It's a survival horror game set under the sea, and is entirely in first person. I'll let the draft do the talking whose link is above. Oh, go on, then here's another link to the draft.Feel free to comment here or on the video with any feedback. The game's peculiar nature makes making a video about it ...
Update: The Last Pause; New Year, New Home, New Videos!
Hello, quick update for all lovely patrons.Main point is I'll be pausing payments for another month. It was optimistic to get my video done by Christmas time, but it became unrealistic once the house move began and I suddenly had to pack and unpack my whole life. The big part of the move, the actual moving, is done now so hopefully there will be more time to do things.But with this I am optimistic about work in the new year. For a start, good progress was made on the new video that I mention...
Update: A Pause, but Pleasant.
Hi there, firing off a quick update. I've paused the billing on Patreon for a month. If you have paid recently, then your next payment will be skipped. Things are still slow and I feel better not charging people while I'm trying to get things back on track. It's also the holidays soon, so why not, eh?I have been working on the projects mentioned before; Amazon, Disco Elysium, Life is Strange Double Exposure.They are all still very big. Even LiS has become an octopus which is still be...
Update: November Brain Debrief
Hello everyone. It's been some time since the last update. I was going to make this earlier but for some reason, thelast week turned into a bit of a write-off, so let's get caught up with what's been going on with a bumper update.After the last post my mental health has been up and down, but more towards a stable median than before, generally speaking. I'm possibly still adjusting to the medication and trying to find a flow with it, but overall we're at a net positive. One si...
NEW VIDEO: Steamy Demos Oct 2024
https://youtu.be/X7TWxPxHCJgAnd the demos are back!I don't have too much of an update to do here. I had most of this video locked before the festival even began because people seem to get their demos up earlier and earlier each festival to give people time to play them. Fine idea, and worked in my favour as my production difficulties were continuing somewhat, so being able to space out my work was helpful.I hope to have more to share soon. Thank you to all, as always.Stay safeJack
Submit Questions for the Steam Demo Fest October 2024 Video!
Work continues, most of the demos for the video played, time to take some questions. This should be out this week as normal. I'd still like to get these videos done at a time when people can play the demos I talk about.Submit one (1) question down in the commentsand I'll take them from there and answer them in the video. You can submit questions on anything you want, though I may not be able to answer every question. Thank you for understanding.See you all soon- Jack
Update: There's no Tow Truck for the Brain
Hi, this isn't a happy update I'm afraid. The last month has not been nearly as productive as I'd hoped. I've written and recorded and filmed but every step of the way I've been fighting my own mind, doubting every little aspect of what I'm doing and saying. I am losing confidence in everything I try to do, and it's been dragging me down, sometimes to states of inactivity. It's affected my life outside of work too. I am not enjoying myself as I was. Not playing ga...
UPDATE: The Undigested Shadow & Light Reading
Hello everyone.The month is nearly gone and this video wot I promised isn't here. What's up with that?I've been working on The Consuming Shadow video for some time, but it's not coming together. It feels disjointed, confused, and I'm lacking confidence in some of the points I'm making. A part of this might be the somewhat disjointed production it had with the Bad Medicine Month I suffered. It might also be that it's just that the current approach isn't working, fo...
NEW VIDEO: An Incomprehensibly British Review of Thank Goodness You're Here!
Oh good gravy, it's that wee demo, gone and turned into a proper game, like!Yes I got a review copy of Thank Goodness You're Here! Which I wasn't expecting to cover, but a code was thrown at my email whilst I was in the vague recovering phase of poisoning myself, and I figured why not make something on a little darling that charmed the pants off of me.It's something of a challenge to write a full review out of something that I already previewed without repeating myself. I think I...
Submit Questions for [A British Game]!
--QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN COLLECTED THANK YOU--Work on The Consuming Shadow continues, but first there'll be a smaller video out next week, the other script that I mentioned in the last update post. I can't reveal what it is due to pressure from Mr M. Bargo esq. but it is a British game, and I think I'll leave it at that.Submit one (1) question down in the commentsand I'll take them from there and answer them in the video. You can submit questions on anything you want, though I may n...
Update: Bad Medicine Makes For Bad Work
Howdy everyone.It's been over a month with no video and I'd better give an update on that and where I'm at. Simply put, I've been thrown off track for a while but have now returned to things back to operating as smoothly as they should come. Planned projects haven't changed beyond some little games batting their eyelashes at me.So what went wrong the past month?I said previously I was working on a Consuming Shadow video and that it was ballooning. Well, it blew up too much an...
NEW VIDEO: Steamy Demos June '24!
https://youtu.be/IQzmAylt4xEAnother Steam Next Fest, another crop of demos for games I didn't have on my radar and suddenly am very interested in. It was a bit of a close call as some personal travelling business ended up interfering more than I thought it would, but happy to get this out, and it felt very rewarding to really get stuck in. One game in particular I had some good fun writing about and editing footage together and I will not apologise for it. Next will be The Consuming Shadow, ...
Submit Questions for the Steam Demo Festival June '24 video!
--QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN COLLECTED THANK YOU--Steam Next Fest is back, and I've played just over half of what I want to make a video, so let's collect the questions. Hoping to get this out by Thursday/Friday. See you then!Submit one (1) question down in the commentsand I'll take them from there and answer them in the video. You can submit questions on anything you want, though I may not be able to answer every question. Thank you for understanding.See you all soon- Jack
NEW VIDEO: Tony Hawk's Gaming Wasteland
https://youtu.be/SdwZNqBfyJgMan I love Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. I love hitting million point combos. I love hearing the special move sound. I love jamming out to some sweet tunes that informed my own musical tastes for years to come.I don't love the year we're in right now, and how the game makes me think about it. This video has been in the brain since the start of the year, but has morphed a lot over time; fermenting as it swirled in the ol' noodle and being influenced by a lot ...
Submit Questions for the Tony Hawk video!
--QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN COLLECTED THANK YOU--The collection for this is going out a little earlier than usual to give people time to ask, and also allow me to plan out when this will be done. I'm looking good to hit my deadline of next week before I need to go travel, which is exciting. I've had this bouncing around my head for most of the year and I just want to share a lot of weird complicated feelings in this video that have come up lately.Submit one (1) question down in the commentsand...
NEW VIDEO: Space Quest - My Kingdom for a Starship
https://youtu.be/uhTx0kjH44oIt's finally here!Space Quest is a special little gem. It can be just as cruel as Sierra adventure games' reputation can lead you to believe, but there's also something about the way it executes everything that makes talking about it a bit trickier than normal. Committing to a more light-hearted tone certainly helps but I think there's more to it than that. I'll let the video speak for itself.Boy those deaths though...I have one of two smaller proj...
Submit Questions for the Space Quest video!
--QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN COLLECTED THANK YOU--This took way longer than it should have.Space Quest is approaching completion. It's the longest of the adventure game videos so far and just needs a few passes for polish and editing to get it ready for release. Should be done by this weekend. I'll update you more on what happens after that once it's out and done. Thank you all once again for your support and patience.Submit one (1) question down in the commentsand I'll take them from t...
April Update: Sickness, Space, and Research Rabbit-Holes
Hi! It's been a while, so I thought I'd let you all know how things are coming along.I did get quite ill since the last update post which ended up setting me back quite a bit. I feel I haven't had an illness that's lasted less than a week in a long long time. I wonder if my two rounds of COVID messed with my ability to fight these things. Either way, it was very inconvenient, especially as it came after I took a week off when all the projects I was doing began to feel like they w...
Update: Projects of the Future
Hello everyone! It's time to let you know what I'm working on right now.I've got several fish in the fryer right now at varying levels of readiness. After Signalis I didn't have any work done on any other project since it was so all-encompassing, and tied with needing a bit of a break after that, it's taken some time to get going again. But we're there now, so let's go over the future plans. Though there's every chance something else not listed here might catch my...
