Well in case there’s any confusion, yesterday was April Fool’s Day, so there are no episodes 1-6 of Doom Guy’s Mind, it was meant as a joke. One thing that’s no doubt confusing people is why this was up on Machinima.com’s channel. I’m just as surprised by that as anyone, as I still do NOT have a new contract with them and I am waiting to hear back from them. They decided to make an exception for me submitting a new video for April Fool’s Day, so that’s how Doom Guy’s Mind got posted. I actually thought for certain they wouldn’t resolve things in time, in which case I would have posted it on my own Youtube channel. Out of all the videos I’ve created however, I feel like this one is likely to appeal to Machinima.com’s target demographic more than any other.

Working on Doom Guy’s Mind kind of made me nostalgic for “punk” games. There were a lot of punk games in the 90s. I feel even with the indie scene there aren’t enough punk games today, but that’s probably just me getting older. Doom was also the first video I’ve had to record realtime in a while, which is a challenge for my system, since I don’t have a SSD. With all the Source videos, I export the footage frame by frame, so it’s all perfectly smooth. I hate having to record in realtime, because one hiccup from a hard drive means the footage will start getting choppy.

Also to clear up any confusion, this was NOT the Freeman’s Mind related side project I mentioned earlier, that’s still a work in progress. I hope to be able to announce that in a week or two. Besides that, I’ll be continuing work on future Freeman’s Mind episodes. I’ll make sure they eventually get released one way or another.

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Hey everybody, sorry for such a long wait on the next episode, but it’s finally here. I think this episode turned out a little better than episode 6, let me know what you think. Also I think there’s a glitch or something where Youtube is labeling this video as having offensive content, but that’s an error because this video is totally not offensive.

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No need to get out the pitchforks,
The Forums will be down Saturday March 30th for updates and maintenance.

Edit: The forums have been updated and are live again, We’re still tweaking some features which may result in temporary interruption of service.

-David Donaldson (web admin on Accursed Farms)

This is just a quick update to let people know I have finally had some real communication with Machinima.com and I THINK something is going to be able to be worked out so I can have more Freeman’s Mind episodes out as soon as possible (assuming this post doesn’t jinx everything). Besides trying to get ahead on FM episodes I’m also working on a side project that is directly related to Freeman’s Mind (and no, it’s not a different series) that I’ll announce later.

EDIT:

I’ve been told today (Mar. 22nd) that there should be an agreement proposal sometime by the end of next week. While I can’t discuss specifics, I’ll keep making timetable updates as I get them.

Unfortunately I still have no update on releasing new videos (speaking of which, if someone wants to make me an offer on Freeman’s Mind or Civil Protection, go ahead and email me). In the meantime, I’ve mainly been doing freelance voice acting work, but I want to work on future videos, whenever they come out. There are two key areas I could really use help in:

WEBSITE DESIGN / PROGRAMMING:
I’ve been wanting to make updates to the site for over a year now, but don’t have web programming knowledge myself. Some of the things I wish to do are update the FAQ, add extra info fields to the episode pages, and have some sort of Wordpress plugin system so I could manually generate new episode pages myself, etc.

AUDIO EDITING:
I have had some great audio editing help in the past, but it’s a real dice toss as to whether anyone will reply if I need help with a video. I’m looking for someone to add in sound effects, do some general reverb processing, and volume balancing. If you have examples of previous work you’ve done, please send me a link to them.

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If you’re interested in helping in either of these positions, please contact me at [email protected]. They will have to be volunteer positions since I’m currently in Ramen noodle territory myself. For audio editing that I use, I will put you in the credits of the video, and for website help, we’ll find a way to credit you somewhere on the site.

Also I’d like to add that if you are interested in helping, try to sound semi-professional. If I get an email like this:

“
ya ill fix ur site wat u want

-Sent from my iPhone
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it doesn’t inspire confidence in me as to your abilities. I’m old-fashioned like that.