Update 11/12/2019 (PESTERQUEST) (Patreon)

hello again!

it's time for a very important update. i've hinted at a mystery project i couldn't announce for like... two months now, i think? well, as you can see in the embedded image above, i finally announced it last week!

i wrote a route for the official homestuck video game pesterquest!!

for those who don't know, pesterquest is a visual novel where you attempt to befriend each member of the core cast of homestuck. it's the sequel to hiveswap friendsim, a game i featured in my game of the year lists video.

back in september, folks at what pumpkin approached me to see if i wanted to write the route for fan favorite (and personal favorite) character terezi pyrope. even as far back as april when i wrote godfeels 1, people told me that i wrote a pretty good terezi! she's a notoriously weird and difficult-to-write character, so that particular bit of praise has always meant a lot. i was actually hesitant to take the gig at first for a variety of reasons, but the promise of getting to write some official, semi-canonical homestuck was too great. and i took that responsibility very seriously:

preparations involved rereading every terezi scene in the early bits of the comic around when the route itself takes place, and a lot of later conversations too. there are so many handwritten notes and ideas jotted down in the late hours of the evening.

i wrote a first draft while i was working on the final chapter of godfeels 2.3, and have spent the last month polishing it to a mirror shine. over the last few weeks i've been cycling through waves of terror and euphoria as various assets like backgrounds and sprites came in based on my descriptions, and as i've seen literally THOUSANDS of people comment on and react to the prerelease art.

it's funny how some of my videos have hundreds of thousands of views and that barely bugs me anymore, but having the homestuck fandom spotlight aimed so directly at my face feels like a huge deal. and it is! i am so excited for folks to see what we've made together, i'm really proud of it and i think you'll enjoy the game.

anyway, my route drops TOMORROW, 11/13! you can buy the game for $12 over here on the steam store. if you haven't read homestuck or played friendsim, you might have a hard time getting into the game. BUT i'll be doing a livestream of it over on the Perfectly Generic Podcast twitch channel at 11am central time right when the route drops, and i'll probably do another stream of it on my own twitch channel later that day or later in the week. seems like as good a time as any to test the waters, eh?

i'm sorry that there hasn't been a new video or behind the scenes update in a while, but this is why. once this thing is out and in the world, i'll finally have the time and mental bandwidth to focus on my channel again.

thank you all so, so much for your patience and support. the stuff i make might not always be to everyone's taste here, but you're helping me keep my bills paid regardless, and that truly means a lot. take care of yourselves.