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👋🏻 As I so eloquently put it yesterday, the video is finished. It will be live on Monday, February 17 at 12:00 PM EST. And what a relief it is to type that...
We Did It
👋🏻 I'll have more to say next time. My brain is mush. Until next time...
Annoying the Algorithm
👋🏻 The editing process continues to be tight. I really only have the introduction and the closer left to edit. I have a thumbnail locked in.1 Everything's...
It's Happening!
👋🏻 We have hit that phase of the project ladies and gentlemen: It is all I want to work on.1 I think about it when I am not at my desk. One hour I am editing...
Star Bit by Star Bit
👋🏻 Okay. Imma be real with you. I've kicked this letter down the street all week, updating the hours and numbers to reflect the current times. But I kept...
Hiding Amongst the Stars
👋🏻 A little over a week ago, I started capturing G-Roll for the essay. Next thing I knew I was earning the Platinum trophy in Astro Bot. Whoops. I'll be...
Intentional Tools
👋🏻 Feels like it has been awhile. I hope you are all well. Against all odds on Sunday (three airplanes, two sets of sirens, and the crunch window of the all...
Script "Complete"
👋🏻 I did it fam. Some 6,500 words later, the initial draft for The Spirit of a Galaxy Game is done. Also the first editorial pass with comments is complete....
Questioning FOMO
👋🏻 I was back in my script yesterday afternoon and the morning and it felt good. Words and corrections flowed out of me. Back on the horse and riding off...
Flu Media Diet
👋🏻 All right. I am alive! From last Saturday night to today I have been battling the flu. Do not recommend for anyone. I tried a few times to work on my...
Five Years
👋🏻 As I emerge from my flu cocoon (what year is it? 😵💫), I just wanted to pop in today and share that it's the five year anniversary of Max Frequency. I am...
Bedridden
👋🏻 I was hoping the next time I sent you all a letter, I'd have the script locked. Then my body decided now was the perfect time to be sick. I've been shut...
Morning Ritual at Sea
👋🏻 I am back on the mainland. Ocean air and no Internet were indeed good for writing. We don't have that final script, but I have made serious headway. The...
Foggy Skies
👋🏻 First up, it totally dawned on me that my last newsletter should have been called "Air Forced One" and I have regretted not thinking of that title right...
Forced
👋🏻 Turns out being stuck on a plane with no internet is a good time to write. Normally on planes (or any means of transportation where I am not the one in...
Race to the FINish
👋🏻 Splatoon 3 campaign = beaten. A fun game that captures the essence of hakoniwa—tiny box gardens of fresh splatitude. It did commit a cardinal sin of...
Splattershot
Hello Memory Carders (I gotta come up with something for these introductions), I was writing another letter about FOMO and then decided to write about a...
Hitting the Trail
As the shape of the essay takes form, I figured touching base on my research process would be interesting. In short, a whole lot of Google and trawling...
Call of Duty: Palette Cleanser 6
A happy Thanksgiving to you all. I hope you all are basking in the gratitude and gravy. Essay progress hit what I would call a holiday break. 😅 The boys...
Diving Deep Beneath the Ink
I am writing this sentence before doing something I never really thought I'd do—dig into the narrative lore of Splatoon. Pray for me. Splatoon lore is silly....
Simmering Deadlines
Javed Sterritt of Good Blood was on The Max Frequency Podcast not too long ago and he talked about bathing in the material of a project. "I need to simmer...
A Shorts Fuse
I just had a heck of a play session this morning—the kind where you keep dying over and over and over. So much so that the Cosmic Spirit showed up to taunt...
Flow Found
We have found the flow people.
Everybody's Got a...Yak?
I feel like I've caught myself shaving the yak of late. I just learned this turn of phrase checks watch 13 minutes ago, but it resonates. And when something...
The Doozy™
👋🏻 Hello. It's been quite the week and I promised you a doozy™ of a newsletter this time. Before diving in deep, I thought I'd actually share a couple of...
Finding Joy in Music and Thumbnails
Abby and I just came back from a little two day trip to see Vampire Weekend in St. Augustine for our seventh anniversary. The trip was chef's kiss perfect....
A Reminder to Make Make Make
We survived Milton. No one was hurt, no damage; we only lost power for 18ish hours. All things considered, it was as good an outcome as one could hope for....
Researching Plagiarism Goldmines
Hello all. I hope you are all well and dry. Me? I am well and soon-to-be soaked. We are hunkered down for Milton as best we can be. Tonight, we ride the...
The Spurring of Ideas
Hello. I just threw a birthday party for my two-year-old daughter. I think she and her tiny friends had fun. I am thoroughly wiped and will unwind amongst...
The Mash Up I Never Expected
I "beat" Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat last night. Of course, the run I win was the run I decreed would be my last "bongo attempt." The lack of precision was...
The Journey to Find Spirit
First thing's first, a quick bit of follow up: I noticed that I pondered playing the Switch port of Galaxy in my first letter as well as my most recent. so...
Tangential Permission Granted
I started the good ol' research process. Man, I love this stage of any project. It's the type of thing that satisfies my ADHD—a fact that seems so obvious...
Questioning A Box Garden Galaxy Essay
I haven't played any more Jungle Beat. I've been focused on the Echoes of the Eye DLC for Outer Wilds. Spooky stuff and I feel like I am close to the end? It...
To the Beat of My Own (Bongo) Drum
I'm over half way through Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat. What an odd and sometimes delightful game. The bongo drum controller proves itself to be the goofiest...
Who Knows What I'll Call This Thing, but Here I Go
pokes head up 🙇🏼♂️ Hello. Odds are no one is actually reading this first slate of newsletters, but if you have found yourself all the way back here at the...