Quick update on Issue #9 (Patreon)

Hey, gang!

I hope you all had a wonderful holidays and had the opportunity to spend quality time with friends and family. Now that we're back from our short break, I want to give you a quick status update on where we're at with Issue #9. We're pretty much done with all the layout on about 95% of the magazine, with the remaining bits finishing things up like captions and the remaining art assets. 

As I said in our last update, we're introducing a couple new features/columns in this issue that we're really excited about. In developing these new features, we want to make sure they look awesome and ensure they have a unique look compared to the rest of the magazine. So our Art Director, Sketchcraft, has been hard at work designing new layouts and art assets to accompany these features.

One of them is called Game vs Game, which is where we take two similar games released on different platforms and two of our writers debate which one is the superior game. In this issue, we're focusing on TMNT: Turtles in Time vs TMNT: Hyperstone Heist. Sketchcraft had this sweet April O'Neil art piece that he started work on awhile back that he wanted to include in this issue. He's currently finishing it up, and you can watch some of his progress on his livestream here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKxRASUfDGA

The other feature is called "Hawt or Snott?" This feature's design is inspired by those cool old-school Genesis magazine advertisements with the TV screens showcasing all sorts of different games available to buy. We wanted to take that awesome style and apply it to a feature where Mega Visions writers choose games in a selected genre are Hawt (ie awesome) or Snott (ie totally not awesome). I know what you're probably thinking "How the heck did you choose that name?"

Well, allow me to introduce you to the first original Mega Visions characters: Hawt and Snott!

Once Sketchcraft finishes the April O'Neil piece for the Game vs Game feature and Hawt & Snott's designs, he'll move on to working on this issue's cover art, which will be Virtual-On. We're hoping to have everything finished up by the end of the month to send to the printer and get these issues rolling out to all of our awesome patrons!

Other than that, we'll have several of our staff members at MAGFest this weekend, so if you plan on attending, be sure to give us a shout, and we'd love to meet up with you and say thanks for supporting the magazine.

Hope you have a great week, and we look forward to getting Issue #9 in your hands!

Keep the Dream Alive,

Chris Powell
Editor in Chief, Mega Visions