Lots going on today! Here’s the delayed Game Dungeon episode I meant to have a week ago:

This game has been partially done for some time now, however I knew it would be murder to edit it, and it kind of was. I think this episode came out pretty well though. This is another one of those episodes I think fits in particularly well with Game Dungeon. Right now my plan is to make multiple videos this month, including a Ross Rants and more Game Dungeons. I don’t plan on having a particular schedule to it, just as it gets finished.

I’ll have some more news in a couple days for the videochat, as a reminder, it’s on twitch.tv/rossbroadcast/ on Feb. 7 at 4pm EST, but will appear on Youtube later. You can also check out the Co-optional Podcast appearance if you’re interested. Normally I would have let that be the top entry for a couple days, but I ended up needing to get this one out ASAP. Bop bop bop.

Hey everyone, below is a link to the Co-Optional podcast that I appeared on a couple days ago. We discussed a lot of The Fine Bros, various games, EA, and PAX South from what I remember.

On the podcast, I have two corrections to make:

1. For some reason, I though the podcast came out on on Youtube on Sunday, so I told people the next Game Dungeon would be out by then. Since I realized my error, I’ve been scrambling. I was hoping to have it out now, but it’s still a little bit away. It’s completely done visually, but I have to do volume balancing, which typically takes hours. Expect it up sometime today.

2. At one point I believe I said twitch.tv when I was thinking of blip.tv, but couldn’t remember the name.

Back to work on the episode!

This is just a small update. I was hoping to have the next Game Dungeon out by now, but I can see this one is going to be a longer one since it involves more editing than usual. I’ll get it done as soon as I can, but I think it will still be a few more days. After that, I plan to continue working on more Game Dungeons, some other videos, plus I have ideas how to get more videos out later that I’ll be looking into once I catch up on more email. Besides working on the movie, most of this month has been trying to catch up on everything else and prepare for a lot of videos I hope to have this year. So things may seem slow right now, but I promise a lot more is coming.

In other news, I’ve been invited to appear on the Co-Optional podcast on February 2nd at 3pm EST. It will go up later on TotalBiscuit’s Youtube channel later on, I’ll make another post when it does.

Finally, just as a reminder, the next videochat will be on February 7th, 4pm EST at www.twitch.tv/rossbroadcast/. I’ll have more news then.

I was invited a couple days ago to appear on the Valve News Network Youtube channel for a podcast the host, Tyler McVicker, set up. We talked mostly about virtual reality, Valve news and Valve games in general, then Tyler had a lot to say about the band Coldplay; I’m not sure if I was the right guest for that part. I think the podcast could have been a little more structured, but it went well enough. Also it has a surprise ending! Anyway, it’s above if you want to check it out.

In the meantime, I’m mostly just trying to catch up on emails and set up some work for future videos. I hope to have another one this month, and hopefully a few for February.

Here’s the latest videochat with the audience. I was a little late getting this one out since there were sound sync problems in the recording that I wanted to fix before posting this on Youtube. This one was a little more structured than previously as I tried to answer a lot of submitted questions, though it reverted to the old chaos by the end. I cover a lot of topics, including Planetside 2, budgeting advice, more produdction aspects about the movie, Gamergate, the new Star Wars, and career and school advice amongst other things. I ramble a lot, but I think it was slightly more coordinated than the previous times.

The next videochat will be on Feb 7, 4pm EST again. I don’t know yet if it will be on twitch or another chat service, I have to do more research first. I’ll have an announcement on that ahead of time if I do change venues. Also if you have questions / topics you’d like discussed in the next videochat, either email [email protected], or else reply in this thread.

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AUDITION FOR ASSISTANT WRITERS:
This is mentioned in the video also, but I’m cautiously considering any applications for being an assistant writer on the movie script. I have the main plot and many scenes established, but I’m interested in help with smaller scenes and subplots to help tie everything together. This is going to be for an adventure-comedy with a mystery element also. I more or less have the “adventure” part laid out and have lots of good comedy, but I really want to have this script be the best it can be and I think having additional writer could definitely benefit the movie as a whole.

If you have background in comedy writing (mysteries are also a bonus) and are interested in having a shot at writing part of the movie script, send me a sample of your comedic writing to my main email address ([email protected]). If I like your style, I can consider you for the movie itself. I do want to emphasize that this will be THE hardest position to get in the movie and I will be absolutely merciless in considering applicants. So odds are, you’ll be rejected. Afterall, I’m looking for someone who can write some of the scenes BETTER than I can. I won’t be mean to anyone, but I consider the script the single most important aspect of the movie, so it’s not an area I’m willing to compromise on. That said, you don’t have to worry about typos or minor mistakes, it’s your content and style that I’ll be most interested in.

Finally, something I forgot to mention in the videochat, a lot of the download links to Civil Protection and other videos were down, those have since been fixed, so they should be working again.