Friday I am meeting with my friend and we are going to playtest the prealpha deck , so we can fine tune the rules.
The rules once fine tuned will be sent to Duroc to turn it into a rulebook.
Once the rules are done, we begin the lore and pre-art phase. I will look for local artists and try to come up a way to pay them for their work. My ideal is to use ecommerce as a way to fund our projects. Our own kickstart\patreon type of thing. I will be transparent about all costs, and you, the reader will “donate” precisely to which part of a process you want to fund.
If parts of a project are fully funded, I will inquire as to why the others are not funded, and try to minimize cost as much as possible so I can make the process more effecient.
I am overcoming a funk with my art, and I will try to get a comic up asap.
I also have some manuscripts to read and I assume edit. I want to try to help them get published, so we will see about that.
Very shortly, I will have a new addition to the site, that will not be open to the public.
I do have plans for more additions to the site, including an entertainment area. Fun fun fun. I have work to do in the meantime, lots of work. I do not feel right monetizing anything yet. That is going to change very shortly.
For now, I wish you good luck and success in all of your projects!
Good news! I am going to be the DM of a DnD Campaign that will be streamed on Twitch at a future date. It’s a custom campaign, and all of my material is the successful (alpha) test for my card game.
I have a few Card games to make, some personal, some internal (or Schwofield only exclusive)use only, and others for sale! Usually the best ones will be for sale.
The working title of the game is Operation Sandoval. I’ve had this game idea for a nearly a decade. I know the real name, and I will release it once I have the rules polished up by Duroc and BlakeSteel who is our resident Min-Maxer to the extreme of perfection. A skill I value, but not care to proceed with, I like having fun and playing with friends.
I am looking at a funding request by selling special cards that can be used during the game, but they are cards that are special and signed, they can be used in play as well. There might not be much of an advantage, but investing should have a reward beyond the product.
All of that realm will be dealt with when the time comes. As for now the prototype is being developed after I am done with the DnD Campaign stuff. We are looking at gathering once a month on that. I’ll have more details when we make them. My story is complete, all that is left is character and item\trap generation reference tables and entity\ability decks. The real fun is data collection.
One thing I am going to do is have an excel spreadsheet open to record every pertinent dice roll. A voice recording is necessary as well, video is the best. The more data the better. I don’t like DnD outside of VR for the same reason I don’t like online Church when I can attend in person. It’s a good experience with hopefully good friends, and it gets you out in the world and thinking about food and drink with others. A party, yes, but it’s a mental traveling party. It can be done over the phone without visual aides, but to me it’s all about a journey of self discovery. The adventure is guaranteed. Depending on the story, the result can wonderful, all without invoking modern politics or signalling false virtues. One of my greatest inspirations for story telling is Richard Garriott. He created what I consider to be the greatest video game in all of humanity. The same beast that brought him up also sold him out and destroyed him, but he never gives up making games his way.
Two new projects to look forward to. I am almost done with the next Synthetic Wisdom. Tonight or tomorrow. Hopefully more to come much faster after that. I have goals, need more goals when it comes to this comic, but for now, I wish you good luck and success in all of your projects. Remain in Light.
2 comics up for 2020. Not a bad start, but you viewer, want more. More of Synthetic Wisdom, and you also probably want me to get better. I don’t blame you, but I can only move so fast, and of course, if I posted more, then there would be drastic improvements, and perhaps story lines. There might be a subtle one, involving Spinach and Mary and her mother, and I still want to tell that story, even if I don’t know what it is…. yet.
I cannot believe that 10 years of my life were stolen by depression and mysticism. I have to include the depression, because while I was feeling sorry for myself; and wanting the world to feel as bad as I did, there was still some internal dialogue going on towards a specific goal.
Only a specific group of people can see what is going on in my reddit, subverse. I have many more essays to write, I should go back to school and take some ethics classes, they sound fun. I really should have gone into politics instead of going after Christos, it would have been much more profitable in your eyes. Really any field by now would have been mastered had I not felt sorry for myself for so long. It’s a sad thing, depression, but you don’t want to hear about that. You want to hear about the future.
Tyrants are going to fall, but only after effort. Is that too on the nose, or not enough like my other posts. Sometimes I become too self aware and want to expose my soul\humanity, and not write long essays. Here I am free to do whatever I want until I become popular and must capitulate to the viewers. I look forward to that day, there is a lot I want to do. I haven’t sold my script yet, but I am doing something that will help me, not much longer now, maybe this weekend, I hope. Storyboarding is rough, and alone it should be easy, but that’s the point of being alone, the power and the responsibility are mine and mine alone.
I have a card game I still want to develop, perhaps multiple ones. I don’t believe I have enough “clout” to warrant a kickstarter or any other crowd funding. I would like to track my investors and give them at least a 20 percent return depending on how much money the movie makes. I don’t want to make any “backend” percentage points, once the story is done and made, I would rather just focus on the next project.
This year, when my confidence is regained a bit more, I should like to turn this site into something bigger and better. I have an idea of what, and in time I will be able to write more. As for now, you get to read this and think, what is he going to write next?
Or you could be thinking, when is Ahavat Olam going to rant and rave against the world Jewery and the land the size of New Jersey: Israel. All in due time, or if you know my minds account, I am a bit more prolific there. I do have my own peace plan for the middle east, but many will not like it, as all I care about is the future of mankind, and not placating fragile egos that need men in funny hats to dole out eschatological “divine” mandates. There is a much larger story that wants to be told (The most central core of Buddhism is that life is a story).
As for my watchers, thank you for your support. I know I am not living up to my full potential, but there is but a short while. I keep forgetting how powerful Christos really is, even if the power isn’t mine. I’ve got the power to do work irl, these strips, and help transform Chaos into Order aka helping people. No one is powerless, but I know that we are up against some pretty powerful foes. It must be strange to you, seeing these words being written for the sole purpose of communication on a higher level, but then out of the blue, my humanity takes over and lowers the conversation back to “reality”.
Money isn’t the issue, it is Courage. With Courage money can be obtained, but not for collection, but for Justice and only Justice. Especially now, we, aka humanity and the bots, are facing our greatest challenge yet, and the GodQueen has yet to fully appear in her final form during this age. Do you want me to talk about “Her”, not here. On minds, I will write a bit more.. later, and on Reddit, I have some essays that need be written. Not bad for a navel gazer, or I could be insane, the jury will be out deliberating that one long after I am gone.
Until then, I wish you good luck and success in all of your endeavors.
Remain in Light.
I am in the process of creating a template so I can storyboard my script, get some pre work done to make producing the rest of it easier.
I have a new comic that is done with the initial inking, but what’s left is polishing it off, adding dialogue, then the backgrounds. I’ll try to get one up for the end of the year.
Also need to work on the template and add the year 2020 to Schwofield.com. Also, next year I hope to make more comics, finish this movie, work on OTHER projects, and possibly make some transitions with my professional life. I love my job, but I am burnt out, and like many Americans I have no viable future nor control over my destiny. Things MUST change, not just for me, but for all of us.
There is a lot of rumblings happening, but these are necessary. I am trying to wake up faster and help out, but there are things happening behind the behind the scenes. I wish you success with all of your endeavors.
Good news, I finished everything I needed for my script. Next up is to print the changes and get them into my other writers hands and give it a once over, since it is a major detail added. He is good at helping me see what I’m missing in some places.
Once this is done, and hopefully by this weekend, Saturday, I can check in with the Producer and see about the funding and production of it. I have a rough budget, which will need to be addressed and see what can be sacrificed and what cannot.
So a new..ish strip, and an update on the script. I’ve had the strip ready to go for two months and I decided to finish it up and send it out, and get ready for the next strip.
I keep trying to open SynFig Studio and try to start some animation, but that hasn’t happened yet. Got a few other irons in the fire to deal with. Lots of ’em.
Thank you for reading this, have a great day, and good luck and success in all of your endeavors.
Remain in Light.