I have some updates and minor news for people. First off, I screwed up the credits for this video. I forgot to mention the Quake 3 music I use for the title theme, though that’s mentioned in every other episode, so it’s not a huge deal. What is a big deal to me though, is I got the name wrong for one of the models I used. I was looking at the readme.txt file that came with the custom model I downloaded and going by the credits listed in that, which was “Silverlan.” Turns out that’s not really the guy who made that model, he just did some entity work on it that I didn’t even use when making the episode. The real author is “SideEffect.” I’ll update the episode page to reflect this. My apologies to him, I usually try my best to give everyone credit for their work.

Speaking of the episode, this one has a few Easter Eggs in it that you may have missed:
-Did you spot the G-man appearance?
-I found the billboard ad entertaining
-(at least one user noticed this already) Pay close attention to the path of the black car. This was an accident I noticed very late in the production that I decided to keep, but minimize the impact of.

There will be more subtitles coming out this week, it’s a slow process for me as I’ve had about 90 different people contact me regarding them and I still haven’t replied to everyone. Thanks for your patience in all this.

I’ve been informed that several download links to both series are missing. I’m not sure why they’ve gone down, but I’ve contacted Machinima.com about this and hopefully they’ll get them back up soon. I hope to implement mirrors for the videos sometime in the future as well.

Finally, I’m continuing work on Freeman’s Mind, so just hang tight.

EDIT:
I screwed up somebody else’s name in the credits (Vecima) who did mapwork in this episode I wasn’t even aware of. Due to multiple credits errors, I’ve replaced the download links with the updated version of the credits and will be adding annotations to Youtube later to reflect this. This is what happens when I don’t get enough sleep.

Youtube

Machinima.com streaming (sound now in sync!)

800x448 WMV (77MB)

1280x720 WMV (188MB)

Well here’s the new episode finally. This episode is meant to be a “normal” episode for the series, something I’m not sure I’ve even done before. You should understand I’m always about 10-12 episodes ahead of where the series is actually at in my mind. After the last episode, I felt like I really owed you guys a normal episode, so you didn’t have any misgivings as to where I was going with the series. I plan for there to be some variety in the episodes, but if you ever wonder what direction I’m taking the series in the future, just come back and look at this one. It’s meant to be an anchor point in terms of style and tone for the series. While I plan to make some episodes that are scary, have a lot of action, more surreal, require a longer attention span, have a much more involved story, etc., the series will eventually come back to episodes similar to this one. It’s not my most impressive idea or even original one (I steal a bit from my own material as far as plot), I think it’s one people will like who are a fan of the series.

I’m very pleased with how it came out, though it still kind of sickens me how long it took to make. Animation is really a black hole in terms of time when it comes to these videos. Also just to clarify, I have not been working on this nonstop since the last episode, if I had, it probably would have come out sometime last year. On that note, Freeman’s Mind is next, I’m going to do everything I can to make sure Episode 12 comes out next week.

Hello... This is Mike Southworth, the web developer responsible for coding the web site (and owner of LD Computech listed in the sidebar). I wanted to thank everyone for the positive comments to Ross’s initial launch post concerning the site, and provide some additional details about the site. It is my intention to provide any site related news updates myself, independent of Ross’s video updates, in order to allow him to focus on creating video episodes rather than answering web site related questions. Please add any of your site related comments to this or any future site update posting.

First, the site has been coded entirely from scratch, utilizing PHP, JavaScript, and AJAX. With the exception of some YouTube and other small snippets, the site contains all original code and no ‘off the shelf’ material. It was created according to the plan that it would be updated regularly to add new features according to a schedule, and any major changes would be separated into specific versions to keep it organized.

I have noted a great number of comments about RSS, even to the extent of users inserting code as user comments related to it. Realize that RSS was not ‘omitted’ from the initial site version because it was ‘rejected’ or we don’t know how to code it. Actually RSS has always been on the feature list, however due to the amount of code required to launch the site was moved to a future version. RSS is comming soon, however it must be pointed out that there are at least as many administration pages as the public pages you can see as regular users, and there are a great deal of additions to be completed to these first. It is much more important to complete every function required for Ross to more easily enter videos, posts, screen shots, and other material than it is to enable RSS, so please be patient. Bearing this in mind, please feel free to provide any feedback or suggestions either by site comment or email to Ross’s address listed in the sidebar.

EDIT BY ROSS SCOTT:
Sorry everyone that the commenting system was broken all this morning, I guess that doesn’t bode well for Mike’s first post. Andrew Theis, the host of the site, was able to fix it for us, so it should be working again now.

EDIT BY MIKE SOUTHWORTH:
Sorry that we were not able to record comments. Unfortunately we are using a manual version control process and that one file was not uploaded as it’s correct working version. The file is now syncronized and working properly. Please email Ross if you see a problem like this and we will fix it immediately.

Hey people, here’s what’s going on: The new CP episode is completely done except for adding some sound effects and volume balancing; however this can be pretty involved. For this episode I’ve unloaded almost all the sound effects work to someone else (Otto Beumelburg) and a few of the sound effects he’s provided are better than what I could have come up with myself. So it’s a time savings for me personally and I think our combined work is improving the audio quality of the episode. Between this and the delay in uploading new episodes, it may be a couple more days before the episode is done, but I think it will be out sometime this week. At this point I’ve done all I can do on my end, so once I get caught up on sleep and maybe reply to the 30 or so emails I’ve gotten lately, I’ll go ahead and start on the next Freeman’s Mind episode and keep them coming. I realize it’s been a while since the last FM episode, but I promise to make up for it soon.

Also I could use one or two more English subtitle transcribers for Civil Protection especially. (international people: just hold tight, I still need to reply to a bunch of emails) I’ve gotten some offers already, but several people have either not replied back or may have become too busy to continue working on the rest of the episodes. If you’re interested in helping out with this and have a proper understanding of spelling and grammar, go ahead and contact me.

EDIT:
I’ve gotten many emails of people offering to transcribe, thanks. I’m trying to respond to all of you and we should have all the remaining English subtitles up before too much longer.

Civil Protection and Freeman’s Mind have moved! Go to www.accursedfarms.com from now on for news on the episodes.

To RSS people:
Until we get RSS working on the new site, I’ll make new posts here when new episodes are released as a way of notifying you.