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Well, I did it. I delievered a playable game by Christmas. Not without cost, mind you. A lot had to change. Even more had to be cut. But a lot of other fun things were added and discovered during playtesting. All of which I'll detail here once I catch my breath. Now for my next goal - a releasable game by March. Onward!

I hope all of you have an out of this world Holiday X-Files Santa autopsy?

I woke up this morning and the world is still here but the forum and shopping cart databases seemed to have come to an Apocalypse of their own :) We are working on getting that fixed.

So, as you've probably figured out, there's no coding stream today. There is coding, but it's for one of my classes, as I have 2 major C# projects and 1 game development project due on Sunday, and I don't know when I'll have time off before then. The good news is I have two weeks off from school starting Monday (Christmas Eve, go figure), so I'll probably have some extra time to catch up on things.

This is a HUGE kit, the box is 12"X10"X10"! You can see by the use of stacking trays, foam and a vacuum formed insert, we have taken great care to protect your investment. Enjoy! The screws are used on ball joints and other components that need tension to work properly. You can quite literally leave this kit poseable for months or years of play if you choose, the tension created by the ball joints is more than enough to have the kit retain its pose. At any point a drop or two of model cement will lock everything into a fixed pose, but until you decide exactly what pose you would like… you are free to play. Watching the legs and torso move with working hydraulics is a pretty fun experience ;)

As of today we estimate stage one will arrive in the WGF Utah warehouse the last week of January. I will have more pics to post as they come in from WGF China. Here are a few shots of Ada, a Kickstarter special mini and the first of the female Stormtroopers to see plastic. Cheers! Mark

I am currently elbow deep in prepping stage three models for the Kickstarter, I must apologize for not being on top of my emails, as this aspect takes me away from the day to day operations. I thought it would be best to give an expected release date here so that you have some frame of reference when these kits will be available for general purchase. The Kickstarter backers are my main priority but all the kits will hit the supply chain shortly after the backer’s items have been shipped. I do not have retail pricing yet, and will likely not have them until each phase is ready to head out the door. Stage 1 release: February 28mm scale Leviathan Crusader 28mm scale left hand Vulkan 10 man rifle squad 20 man Stormtrooper set Stormtrooper accessory set Eisenkern support weapons set   Stage 2 release: March   2 8mm scale Leviathan Mortis 28mm scale Leviathan weapons ·          Beowulf/Grendel ·          HEL Cannon ·          Nova Cannon ·          Ripper Saw ·          Ma

Like it says. I'm not particularly in the mood to redo all the stuff that I lost last week, so I'll be working on a different part of nun brothels. Edit: Got quite a bit of stuff done and DIDN'T lose it as a result of a crash this time. Gonna take a break, then get back to redoing all that stuff I lost later today. Edit 2: Back up for a bit. Still more goddamn set up to do. Edit 3: Done for today. I'm going to try to be back at it tomorrow, but I can't guarantee anything.

The wife has come down with something pretty bad, so I'm looking after her. Can't get all distracted by coding while she needs me. I might play a game or something after she goes to bed and stream that instead. I'll be coding tomorrow and Thursday.

I want to get significant work done today. So I'll be streaming for a while. Feel free to keep me company, it gets lonely out there in the Internet... Oh, and for people that keep asking (stop that!), I would really  like to have an update out by Christmas, but can't guarantee a) that will happen, or b) anything beyond the nun brothel will be fully complete if I do. Welp...lost all that  work when RAGS crashed. I need a break...

I gotta stop doing this before it becomes a regular thing! But streaming.

Remember the days gone by when I would wake up early in the morning and start coding right away? ...yeah, me neither. Anyway, that's what I'm doing now. I can't guarantee I'll be working all day today (I never work all day anyway), as I have a project for one of my classes that I really need to work on today as well. But I should be able to get at least a few hours of work invested. And it's gonna be nun brothels. SO MUCH WORK.

Time for still more nun brothels. Figured out last time I coded that I needed to add still more variables for this event, and these are bigguns (or at least LOTS OF THEM), so this could take a while.

I'm tired, my throat still hurts, and I was streaming.

Been sick lately, which sucks. Today took a turn of the worse as my sore throat went way, way beyond sore. Not sure why, doctors couldn't figure it out either. The current thinking is that I abraded (scratched) my throat and that the only real solution is pain management. So now I'm on Vicodin, weeeeee! The problem is that it's making me really  scatterbrained (there's a reason I avoid narcotics), so sadly, coding is out for tonight. Also, there's this thing Thursday called Thanksgiving, which will be taking up some of my time. So it might be that there's no streaming this week. We'll see what happens.

Yes, we're still on nuns and their sexual proclivities. Considering I have about forty pages of shit related to this damn place, I got to work on it. Here some more stuff on the brothel: In addition to managing the convent-cum-brothel, you have to manage the girls as well. They all have their own idea of how the brothel should be run (generally along one of the three paths), and while they'll like the upgrades related to those paths, they won't be pleased if you choose other upgrades. While you obviously can't cater to everyone's needs (there's two girls that hate each upgrade path), you have to figure out how to keep them happy, whether that's sacrificing some profit to give to the girl, or devoting some of your personal time to keeping her happy, since all six girls like when they get personal attention. Of course, if you spend too much consecutive time with one girl, the others will  get jealous. Top that off with the fact that the girls aren't machin

I said Frontiers would be ready to playtest over Christmas - my family and friends are excited to try it. I said it would be ready because I decided it was high time I got the core gameplay working, and the embarrassment of having nothing to show is an excellent motivator. But now that I have about a month left to go, I'm starting to wish I hadn't said a thing, especially since I know a new season of Breaking Bad work is scheduled to drop on me like a ton of bricks in December. On the one hand this deadline did exactly what I'd hoped it would - it forced me to step outside of the comfort zone of Let's get this working just the way I want and into the world of This needs to happen or the game won't exist. And that's been fantastic for progress, if not stability. On the other hand - Christ almighty there's a lot left to do. And I can already see all those sad looks I'll get if I have to tell them Sorry, it's not ready like I said it would be. It'

Here is a look at some of the sprues and an assembled trooper. It’s a bit dark out so I needed to use my desk magnifier lamp to get some shots. I will try to get some larger clearer images when I can get some decent lighting. I am quite frankly amazed at the level of crisp detail they were able to reproduce while dealing with the direction of pull from the mold halves. WGF did an amazing job…. My hat is off to them .     A few spru shots before I tore into them ;)    

It's late, I'm tired, so naturally it's as good a time as any to do some coding. Also, I totally forgot to post this when I got it, so I'm posting it now. The artist declined to be named, but asked that I make sure to point out it was created with Kisekae, by Pochikou, which you can apparently find here ?