Shade getting back into gaming?
CALENDARS AND PINUP COMIC!
Quick bit, please check out the SUPER FUNTIME ARCADE calendar and HAPPY HAUNTED HAREM pinup comic on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadedraws/super-arcade-funtime-18-month-calendar
There’s 10 days left in the campaign.
HEY, KIDS! VIDYA GAMES!
As part of a strategy to expand awareness of my work, I started to post content to my YouTube channel about two months ago. We’ve got a bit dark over the past month, but over the past few days, I’ve started to get back into playing video games to bolster the ShadeDraws channel’s content.
For about an hour a day—usually shortly after I wake up and before I begin to draw—I’ve been playing a game called SUNSET OVERDRIVE. It’s an action-adventure game set in this 80s-inspired hard rock urban playhouse where your player-character is set against hordes of zombies who’ve been mutated by a mysterious energy drink whose popularity has led to this semi-apocalypse.
One of the great things about the game is that you can create your own character. So I created Jeggy! Not a perfect fit as they don’t have a pink hair option, but it’s good enough!
And another reason for this is that I plan to actually draw Jeggy with this new look, record it and post the video on my YT channel so you can all check it out. https://youtube.com/c/shadedraws
All told, I’ve only spent about 2 hours in the game, but it’s incredibly fun! I’ve recorded one hour of footage(I borked the first house as the audio was weird) but I’m enjoying it. Unlike when I was in my 20s, I find it difficult now to really lose myself in gaming because I have too many responsibilities and I feel genuine guilt just doing anything besides working, but I’m trying to consider that this is technically for the business so I’m trying to have fun.
Sunset Overdrive is about 7-8 hours long, I think, and after I record the footage for it, I don’t know what I’ll be playing next. I spent about $500 in games over the past 3 years when I started considering getting into gaming for a YouTube channel and I’m JUST STARTING ON THAT. lol
OTHER MISCELLANEOUS NEWS
I found a company overseas that will be an excellent choice to build my Kickstarter-alternative crowdfunding/pre-order website. It will cost several thousand, but in the short-term it will pay me back on the platform fees I pay to KS/IGG annually.
I found an editor for my future novels. He’s a long-time client who’s also a very smart guy. He edited my first sci-fi novel a few years ago so we’re going to work out a deal for him to edit the first volume in my female vampire series, MARIANNE GREYMORE.
I only have a few variant covers left to do for the XTENDED EDITIONS of my previous books, then I delve more into backlogged commissions that will contribute to Goodtime Girls and Waifu Wonderland.
The print proof for the SCAROUSED! calendar is on the way and should get here in a few days along with some restocked books like After Dark TRILOGY.
Jex is still editing the Warframe video game review. The video itself will be about 24 minutes long. Can’t wait to share it!