April, April. (Patreon)

So, hi. I have been working on videos this month! Exciting news, I hope. Originally, I wrote a script, but it was bad, so I tried doing it completely spontaneously, and that didn't work either. So then I started speaking my mind to a voice recorder and then rearranging those thoughts into a script, and that's way more natural-sounding now. Everything was looking good.

...and then I lost my voice. The podcast I'm on, Super Deformed Gamescast, had to go without me for like three weeks.

Then food stamps got canceled, and since I can't eat without food stamps, I had to spend weeks of meetings trying to get things fixed. Taxes took a while, I had to apartment hunt for a month (ultimately, I had to give up and I'm staying here), there was work stuff, I had to go to a teacher, and after I got over the flu/fever/whatever crap that was messing with me, about a week later, my regular health problems appeared again, so I ended up having to go to the doctor, and then they wanted me to go talk to another doctor, and... the point of this is that I have finally--FINALLY--completed almost all of the major obligations in my life other than writing.

It's not that I want to complain, just to explain why I only managed to complete two games this past month, one of which I had started back in February (Pokemon Y, which is a great, non-intensive game when you're running a fever and not up for the games you actually want to play), and Adr1ft, which is fairly short. I didn't have a lot of game time this month.

That said, this is the last week of classes for me. Finals week is next week. My film school's graduation is on Friday the 13th, then I have to rush down to attend my younger brother's graduation on the 14th, then I have to drive back up and attend my university's walk/graduation/commencement stuff on the 15th. Busy, busy, in other words, so I'm looking at completing the video some time after the week of the 15th.

I have one test to study for and five papers to do. After that, I am going to be releasing content far more frequently than I am now. I know the Patreon goal hasn't hit $750/mo, but I'm going to try to do a video a month anyways. If ya'll wouldn't mind signal boosting, I'd appreciate it a lot--getting over this signal boosting thing would be great. I have several videos plotted out and planned to ensure no interruptions.

I also have about 4-5 articles in the works right now for Stomp, which is where I'm publishing all that stuff that's being supported. Look forward to pieces on Dragon Age: Inquisition, SUPER HOT, Digimon Cybersleuth, Adr1ft, The Division, and The Evil Within in the coming weeks/months. Hopefully weeks. After graduation, the plan is to write two articles per week, every week, though that will include freelance stuff.

The first video is: THE ONLY THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GAMES CRITICISM

The second video is: WHY HORROR GAMES NEED GUNS

I've got a few more planned as well.