Monthly Update - June 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.
Chained Echoes
We are approaching the end of the first act for the public uploads, after which we will be taking about a week break before beginning act 2. On my end, I am a couple weeks into act 2 and I've mostly planned out each episode for the rest of the act.
The DLC finally got its release date announced - August 7th, 2025! I will be covering this in the Let's Play for sure. It takes place right at the end of the game, just before heading to the final boss, so the DLC will be out well before I get to that point.
Final Fantasy XIV
I have finished recording all but one episode for the middle third of Heavensward! At this point, other than attempting to get that last video recorded, I am taking a break from FFXIV until patch 7.3 releases which will almost definitely be August 5th. Should all go according to plan, the break will end on September 1st, 2025 as I move into the final third of the expansion's base story.
Twitch Streams
To be completely honest, I do not like streaming, either as a creator or as a viewer. As a viewer, it is FOMO cranked up to max. Even if the VOD gets preserved somewhere, you still miss out on being there live if you weren't there as it happens. With my ADHD, I can not just watch a stream all day without getting extremely antsy. I need to be able to pause and step away for a bit. As a creator, streaming is heavily reliant on having an audience to bounce off of. I simply do not have that, and there are so many streamers out there that it is nearly impossible to really break ground.
So I think I'm done with streaming. Apologies!
Game Development
I'm still trying to make my game. I've been doing a bit of writing on my breaks at work, I've been doing a bit of programming here and there trying to learn Rust. I would make the game in Godot, but between some... questionable decisions Godot has made recently and the desire to have a bit more control over my tools, I think I am going to stick with Rust. When I have things to share, it will be shared!
Coming Up
Final Fantasy XIV continues!
Chained Echoes continues!