Setting goals, keeping perseverance, outreaching to others, and accepting help; these acts are what made this happen. These acts are what have made what started as a hope into a truth. What made April 4, 2020, our founding day of affiliation. Thank you, all of you, who have helped make this possible, who have hyped me, who have watched, and who have followed. Each of these are stones that have set a foundation together, and made the climb up the mountain possible. Thank you.
And that’s how we’re going to start April.
We’ll launch with streaming content since we’re already on the high of the topic with the affiliate announcement. Last month we set expectations across a number of MMOs, but found ourselves realigning about mid-month. Destiny 2’s Season of the Worthy is fun, but it didn’t quite scratch the itch of previous Seasons. We’re still playing it but it’s showing up less on stream than previous months. Similarly, Warframe also is less present on the main line. Operation Scarlet Spear has fun content but without the draw of the rest of the clan, I’m less inclined to throw it into co-op content. Monster Hunter World co-op content, on the other hand, is still going strong. We reached the endgame two weeks ago, and have been playing with the post Iceborne content in the Guiding lands. That said, it may be soon time to move past active MHW content, and we might be looking at something new in the future.
Fridays and post-raid Saturdays we’ve been playing a new single player experience, Cross Code. This game is a lovely action-adventure RPG puzzler, reminiscent of Secret of Evermore and other SNES titles. It is amazing. The game play is smooth on keyboard and mouse, the puzzles range from cute to I HATE THIS SO MUCH. It’s a blast. The developers, Radical Fish Games, really put a lot of love into the project and it shows with how each region unfolds, the hidden lore, the animations, everything. I don’t know how much longer we have left with the game, but we’ll be digging in until it’s done. There’s also a new game plus option, but we won’t be jumping into that right away. It’ll be something worth revisiting later this year or the next.
A follow up on the Eden Raids in XIV, Dinner First has reached e8s, the new Shiva battle and the final part of the current raid tier. I’m rather happy with how the group has progressed. It’s certainly faster than we managed it last raid tier, and hearing the communication going through our team has been inspiring. By the next monthly update, we’ll be done, I’m certain.
There’s a lot to go over with the Twitch affiliate content, so I’ll be separating that out to another post. Thank you again to everyone that helped that happen.
Following up on the spring Patreon poll, we’ve started work on this month’s short story. The patrons wished for a revisit to the land of Manta and Draco Artifactium, and so I spent time digging into the setting and making sure anything I write becomes consistent with the past and future novels. Revisiting the agents of the dragon Harbinger and her world has been lovely, and working on the initial draft has gone well. Pop into the Patreon for details of how that story is progressing, and to get a free copy of it and January’s short story.
By this time next month, we’ll be chapters deep into the next novel. Epicus is ready to go in terms of outline, so once we’re done with the short story prep, we’ll hit the ground running. Ideally, we’ll knock out the first draft by June’s status update, and see a launch of the novel maybe two years after the release of Doppelganger: Draco Artifactium. Crossing fingers for this September.
Finally, let’s talk about the discord, The Hiddennode. We just went live with public access to the server, and supporter access areas. I’ll be mirroring update information from those supporter routes to those channels, so while fans can connect with each other on the discord, they can stay up to date with the different threads of my content. The discord is publicly open, so come visit. My goal is to grow that community; to make it a thriving center of cool people who like hanging out, like my content, and help me with developing more worlds. Everything starts small, so I know this will take time.
And that sums it up. April is ready to go with some awesome content coming in streams and writing releases. Stay tuned for more Patreon posts, join the Discord, and keep an eye on public announcements via Twitter, Facebook, and Twitch.
Otherwise, see you in May.