Monthly Update - January 2025
Hey all! Welcome to my monthly update covering my Let's Plays and other projects, cross-posted to my personal blog and to my Patreon. Read on to see what I've been up to!
Let's Plays
First up is the progress on my Let's Plays which are posted to YouTube and Patreon.
VVVVVV
It was a delight to return to VVVVVV, a classic indie game from Terry Cavanagh! Nice and short at only 6 episodes for the 100% playthrough, it was certainly difficult but not to any unreasonable extent. Honestly it got me in the mood to replay Celeste. Might do that soon!
LP #017
The next game is well underway! It is the at-present final game in a series that is very nostalgic to me. Maybe some day we'll get the finale of the series!
If you're subscribed to the Patreon at $5+/month, you already have access to the first 11 episodes. I'm expecting it to be around 36 episodes, but that is still up in the air. First episode will go live on YouTube in a few days on February 3rd so please look forward to it!
Final Fantasy XIV
Heavensward is at last underway! We're still very early game at the moment, but within the next week or so the new jobs introduced in Heavensward will be caught up and we'll be able to start using them regularly in the MSQ.
In terms of the recording, I will pretty soon be moving into the lv 52-53 zone. I'm out of the "intro" of Heavensward and into the bulk of it!
Twitch Streams
Next up is what I'm doing on Twitch!
Final Fantasy XIV - EX MINE Grind
The raid group continues through the A Realm Reborn EX MINE grind! So far we've logged clears on Ultima EX and Garuda EX and are now working through Titan EX. Including Titan, we have 6 more trials to go before finishing off with our synced clear of Binding Coils Turn 13.
Our primary stream days are Mondays at 3pm US Pacific/6pm US Eastern. We've decided not to do secondary prog on Saturdays like we originally intended, instead using that day for other high end content that we might stream at some point.
Saturday Game Night
I'm trying to get back to weekly non-raid gaming streams! Starting this Saturday, February 1st 2025, I'm going to be going live at 4:30pm US Pacific/7:30pm US Eastern for my first playthrough of Ghost Trick. Come hang out!
Other Projects
Next up are miscellaneous other projects I'm working on!
The Blog
I promise, I am working on more blog posts than just the monthly updates. I have an analysis of Xenoblade 2 that I'm working on. I have a whole list of things I want to write about. It's just slow going as I'm trying to find a good balance between the many projects I'm working on. Maybe I should do like... weekly non-topical blogging in addition to this?
Game Development
I spent a bulk of this month working on the world map for my game, right down to figuring out the climate of the world on a regional basis. I've basically finished it and I'm pretty happy, so have a sample of a few images of the world map!
I have maps with far more detail than seen here, but this already feels like a lot of maps to show!
I am definitely concerned that I may have spent... far too much time on this. But on the other hand, it was fun! And I am very happy that a lot of areas in my game's world where I thought "I want this area to have these features" ended up naturally having those features. This should help a lot with creating individual zones as well.
I think next I want to try and get a rough base model for the game's characters done, then start building out the first zone.
Coming Up
Heavensward continues as we begin wrapping up the preliminary quests and get into the bulk of the story!
Let's Play #017 begins February 3rd, 2025!
My raid group's weekly EX prog continues on Mondays at 3pm US Pacific/6pm US Eastern!
I'm beginning weekly gaming streams on Saturdays at 4:30pm US Pacific/7:30pm US Eastern!
Pre-production on my game continues!
Maybe I'll get some actual blog posts out!