News #53 - Mission Creep

In this episode, I look at news from:

Para Bellum Wargames 

Oathsworn Miniatures 

Wargames Atlantic 

Krakon Games 

TTCombat 

Dream Pod 9 and

Black Scorpion 

I springboard off that to talk about the issue of mission creep in business and in miniatures wargaming in particular, and the three ways in which a small enterprise (or even a larger one) can find itself drifting into mission creep.

I also talk about how this affected Precinct Omega and led directly to my hiatus last year, and how I've responded to it with a new strategy.

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First up, Wombat has rallied. He's beaten the infection that really laid him out. His quality of life has picked up and he's able to stroll around the garden, eat apple cores and rip toilet roll tubes apart once more. He's still not a well dog and his tumour is pretty enormous, but it looks like we've bought a few more weeks of his company.

I struggled a bit with this week's podcast episode. When I talk about business stuff, I do worry about my credibility as a commentator and there was a long gap between recording the news and recording the rest of the show while I went into another room and procrastinated before I gave myself a slap and got back to it.

In the event, I was pretty happy with what I said, which I think landed on the right side of the border between honesty and self-pity.

Adding images to accompany the news always seems to be something I only think of at the last minute. In future, I'm going to adjust where the camera sits for the news so I can put the images up over my shoulder without completely obscuring my face.

I'm also still struggling with a mysterious glitch in my software that something just declines to record more than a few seconds of sound. I think the source is my radio mic, which is why it disappears between the first cut and the second.

You'd think I'd be better at this by now.

By the way, although I promised not to talk about Kickstarter, I think the rule of Kickstarter Club is that you don't not talk about Kickstarter. And I've got more than 200 people signed up to get launch notification on the campaign when it goes live on 1st August, which is a great start! My minimum aspiration is 250, and I think I need about twice that if I'm going to be confident of hitting at least a couple of stretch goals.