Oops, I've done it again.

How many times must I learn this lesson?

So as you're not doubt aware, it's been a wee bit now since I've actually, y'know, uploaded something - which isn't because I haven't been working my ass off, but rather because I've once again waltzed into adding yet another mega-project onto the work load. I was originally hoping to just drop it in your laps today but have as of now accepted defeat - it won't be done quite yet, so instead: an update.

Let's take it from the top.

WHERE IS MY CAMPAIGN FOR NORTH AFRICA VALE?

Yeah, we should start here.

Campaign for North Africa is currently - as it always has been - a work in progress. You may no doubt recall I initially wanted to make this a big server event - bring a lot of you guys in to fill as we slowly progressed our way through the intro campaign, Graziani's Offensive. This would be a lot faster than an actual campaign of course, but it would still consume every weekend for at least a month or two and drain the very soul from my body.

Regardless of the spiritual consequences, this is what I'd thought we'd do. 

Until we actually played the thing.

I have about 10 hours total of footage on my hard drive. Some is from when we played Operation: Brevity (a different tutorial scenario), the rest from our proper attempt. We only made it through setup and the first OpStage - so we have seen what the game would be like at least.

And honestly - it's just not worth it. I don't know why I ever thought it would be worth it.

Thankfully - this doesn't really affect how I was going to do the video anyway. It'll be a kind of hybrid video-essay and what my content normally looks like, since CNA doesn't really make for easy viewing without any explanation. There also isn't really any tutorial content out there for how to play CNA - and as a now-expert I think it my duty to provide.

After reaching the conclusion that we were done, I then came to the realisation that the script for this thing was going to be massive. Count Dooku's Soul Harvester, my only current video essay, was around 8,500 words for a near hour-long video - and at the moment the script alone may be nearly three times that.

Once I knew that CNA was going to take at least another two months or so to put together, I ground it to a halt for a while to focus on another "filler video" to buy me the time I needed.

Mistake.

So what is this "filler video"?

It was originally intended as filler, but has managed to upgrade itself to a full video after quite a lot of work. It's got a bunch of animation in it (not unlike the Joe video) and after a week long grind on the edit I'm only halfway done.

I won't talk about the content much, but I will give you the video title:

ChatGPT makes a Torture Board Game

This one'll be good.

:)

Crypt II

Not gonna update much on this front. Work is proceeding, albeit slowly since those other two big boys have been sapping all my time. I'll announce more (plus the game's actual name and the plan and what not) when we have some stuff to show you.

At least since I'm not the artist it might actually look good this time.

Conclusion

That's it for this one. I'm planning to shit this "filler" out for you guys sometime in the next week - after which, there'll probably be an actual filler video and then CNA. I'm really looking forward to having this little shit off my workload so I can move onto other projects - I've got like two dozen ideas, but can only do so much at once.

Till next time guys.

Stay safe.