Channel Update: Troika Finale and an Upcoming Interview

Hello friends,

Thanks again for supporting my work, it means so much to me to have an audience that truly believes in what I do. I don't say it enough, so "thank you!" from the bottom of my heart. Here's a quick update on what's happening soon with the channel.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

I am knee-deep in the Troika Games part 3 video, just recorded the voiceover for my completed script last night and it looks promising. The next couple days will be audio edits and remastering, then full-on video editing over the weekend. This is going to be fairly big (looking to be 20-22 minutes long right now), and it's arguably the biggest cult classic of Troika's games so I don't want to rush it. I will likely have it ready by next weekend (22nd or 23rd of October), but I hope I can get it out to Patrons earlier.

I'm covering a bit of vampire folklore, pop culture and I explore the major points of the Vampire: The Masquerade setting and universe. It's a difficult game to talk about in-depth without explaining the complex and interesting lore that inspired it, but I think I reached a good balance in the end.

I've had to do some deep research to verify a couple facts about the game's development, which I will link to in the video's Sources section, but I think I put an interesting take on the game that no one has quite done yet, in the style and presentation quality of the other two videos.

Interview Opportunity

After getting back into The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall again on stream and seeing a bit of a second wind on my Daggerfall video from last year (recently passed 100,000 views), I decided to do some digging. In that video I spoke of Julian Lefay, the "father of the Elder Scrolls". He was lead tech at Bethesda and a programmer there for 10 years and was heavily involved in Arena, Daggerfall and Battlespire's creation.

Despite having a major hand in creating what is now one of the most celebrated and popular role-playing game series of all time though, he remains a bit of an enigmatic figure, perhaps on purpose.

After some internet sleuthing and checking multiple names (he has apparently gone by an alias over the years), I tracked him down! I sent a message to him asking if he'd be interested in an interview and that fans would likely love to hear from the creator of some of their favorite games -- and as you might have heard from my videos, Daggerfall remains my personal favorite of the series, followed by Morrowind, which he was involved with in the beginning.

We've talked back and forth a couple times in the past week, and he is willing to do a video interview, likely in the next couple of weekends. I don't think this should impact my video essay production schedule much, and this is really a rare opportunity to talk to and ask questions of a rarely-interviewed figure who greatly influenced the gaming industry.

I will likely record the interview offline, edit out downtime and add a few cutaways and flair to it to make it an easier watch, hopefully the turnaround will be quick.

Thanks to my continual growth and support from you, I hope to cover and explore more interesting corners of the gaming sphere that not many have before.  Thanks again for your patronage, and feel free to ask me questions in the comments below!