Ross Scott

This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here » Videochat for July. I'm running behind on the videos, but working as fast as I can on it. I'm aiming for 3 videos this month, we'll see what happens. I hope to have work done on the website also, I'll have announcements before any big changes on that front. COMMENTS

This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here » Here's an update plus a link for asking question on the next videochat. First, I'm afraid both Ross's Game Dungeon and Freeman's Mind 2 are running late. They're not on hold, they're just both taking longer than I hoped. Freeman's Mind is taking longer to multiple bugs I've run into that weren't present for me in HL:Source. I think I'll be able to get them ironed out, but it surprising how much it's slowed things down for me. The next Game Dungeon is simply just a huge episode with some complications. All I can say it's a game worthy of taking up this much time. I'm hoping to have the Game Dungeon sometime in early July and Freeman's Mind ASAP after that. Assuming I don't run into new major bugs, I'm hoping to have two FM2 episodes for July, but obviously, I can't promise anything when it comes to dates. Anyway, the next videochat will be live 4PM EST on July 2nd at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. You can ask questions you'd like me to answer here and I'll prioritize those with the most votes. COMMENTS

This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here » Here's info on the next UT2004 session with fans on the 17th. We'll be using custom maps again, but it's the same download pack as before as we only got about halfway through them last time. Here's a link to it from before: map pack Primary server: ut2004.ziltoid.rocks password: dog Secondary (overflow) server: ut2004.ziltoid.rocks:8888 – Overflow #1 password: dog The session will be live on twitch.tv/rossbroadcast on June 17th and 2pm EST, I'll have a twitter announcement on Saturday.

This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here » Videochat for June. I keep feeling a little crazy after making these, I think it may have to do with talking to a computer for a length of time. More videos this month! COMMENTS

This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here » Here's a link to the reddit thread for asking questions for the next videochat. It will be on Saturday at 4pm EST on June 3rd at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. I'll prioritize answering questions that get the most votes. COMMENTS

This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here » Freeman's Mind! There ended up being a longer delay on this than I intended, but I don't think the quality was hurt any. I'm still having some hang ups with the Source engine, as there are multiple behind the scenes fixes going on with this episode. Primarily, demo playback seems to have no consistency at all. Depending on what values I use when playing it back, I can have a combination of stuttering for the following situations: -Turning the mouse -Jumping -NPC movement -some dynamic objects playing animations -Cutscene camera movement So far, I've mostly minimized the first three, but can't seem to have EVERYTHING play back smoothly. Stuff like this is why I abandoned the Source engine for my other projects. If anyone has greater insight as to how demo playback works, you're welcome to contact me, though if you have suggested values, you may want to test them yourself in HL2 first. Next up for June will be another Game Dungeon and more Freeman's Mind. COMMENT

This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here » I mean to have a post on this a few weeks ago, then simply forgot. This is an audio interview I did with a podcaster who contacted me a while back. I was impressed he got an interview with Jeff Rubin prior to me. For those unfamiliar with who that is, he used to be a member of the College Humor website and later their Youtube channel. is my favorite performance by him. Anyway, there were some questions about me doing machinima, but there ended up being a lot more questions about my thoughts on the global oil situation in particular. I didn't pick the questions, but that is a topic I have put a lot of research into in the past. This may not have been my best interview as I was little tired when we had it, but some of you may find it interesting. More Freeman's Mind coming before too long! I don't think any fans will be disappointed with the next episode. COMMENTS

This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here » After having to postpone the last UT2004 session, here's a heads up on the next one. It will be on May 27th, 2pm EST at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. We'll also be trying some custom maps this time. Here's a map pack to download ahead of time (110MB): Map pack for May session You just need to unzip this into your UT2004 directory and that should be it. Here's the server info for Saturday: Primary server: ut2004.ziltoid.rocks password: dog Secondary (overflow) server: ut2004.ziltoid.rocks:8888 – Overflow #1 password: dog I'll have a reminder on Saturday on twitter. COMMENTS

This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here » This is just a quick notice that I'm postponing the UT2004 playsession with fans. Both the host and myself ended up being pretty busy and didn't have time to prepare everything for this. I'm pushing it back a week to 2PM EST on May 27th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast instead. I'll have another post in a couple days on info for how to join, since we hope to use custom maps this time. On the plus side, the next Freeman's Mind still looks on track to be out this month. COMMENTS

Yeah I think that interview would get a few more views, huh.

This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here » Here is the video to follow up the follow-up episode! An almost hour-long interview with Stuart Mackereth, the senior programmer for the game Cyril Cyberpunk. He also going to release his game Discrepant, which you can find out more at http://www.discrepantgame.com. I figure this is the sort of video that will be hit or miss with people, it depends on how interested you are in the original game or the process that went into creating it. The first half of the interview is about Cyril Cyberpunk, the second half is about his upcoming game along with some minor movie discussion at the end. The audio quality is a little rough on Stuart's end, but I have no regrets, seeing as how if I wasn't paranoid and recorded him on my end, nothing would have been saved in the first place. Another video coming this month, hopefully more! COMMENTS

This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here » Here's the next Game Dungeon! It's been over 2 years since the last follow-up episode and all I can say is it was exactly as much work as I thought it would be, if not more. I was originally hoping to do this one with a lot more help, but I ended up getting pushed so far back with the time frame I was aiming for, by the time I was ready to look into that it would have taken longer to do it that way than on my own. This unfortunately is a pattern with many of my videos, but one I'm still optimistic about breaking out of (especially since Freeman's Mind can be produced faster). I think the follow-up episodes aren't quite as interesting as a regular Game Dungeon, but they're okay as supplemental material. In any event, this one has a surprise in it to spice it up some (and is part of the reason this took as long as it did). As for the future, Freeman's Mind is next, and then a Game Dungeon episode I've been meaning to make for a long time. Besides the bonus video coming, which should hopefully be out sometime tomorrow, expect at least one more this month. Videos! COMMENTS