Ultimate DeathWorld #20 (early access) and a LOT of NEWS!

Hi all :)

I've got a lot of things to talk about!

1) the Finale of the 2nd Epoch!

This week's early access will most likely not be released as a stand-alone episode on youtube, it's too short and doesn't have a "wholesome" theme just by itself, instead I'd like to combine it with the next 15-25 minute of video into sort of an epoch finale, as that complete video will be the last part of the 2nd Lord of the Biters movie (the two expansions), after which we will be ready to start engineering ourselves towards world peace in the last part of the LotB trilogy (The return of the Engineer). All in all, I think this series will encompass apporximately 30 episodes in total, so there's still plenty to look out for!

2) MOAR content!

Next to the current series, my main focus is on getting more content out in the form of a less edited side-project (and/or streaming it). Rampant mod will probably fall in this category, but I want to do that one right, so I think my first "practice" venture in this way of creating content will be a quick "default settings but evolution starts at 100%" game (thanks discord guy who suggested the idea!)

3) Q&A Q?

There have been some sounds about a possible Q&A. If that seems interesting to you, let me know. I'll need to find a proper milestone to celebrate that, and it will probably be the point where I decide to go full time.

4) Full time?

Yeah, full time starts to seem viable in the nearish future thanks to the remarkable and frankly unbelievably incredible increase in support here on Patreon since the start of this series. Together with the ad revenue from youtube and my normal day job income, I'm able to save up money quite well now. Before going full time (and leaving my day job), I want to buy a proper gaming/editing rig for my "new" job (for higher quality and a more streamlined workflow). After that, before I actually quit my day job, I plan to (re-)save up a couple months of living expenses as a buffer, so I won't need to abandon it all again if the first thing goes wrong. I'm not scared to take the leap, but I think it's better to do it in a more responsable way / with a little margin for error.

5) If Space Can Expand then Why Not Time?

At the moment I've been struggling even to just keep up the weekly video as the last few weeks have been filled with time-consuming events, like a 3000 km drive with extremely long border crossing, in order to join my parents 40 year marriage celebration (they rented a cabin for a 3 day family weekend) among other things. This is why today's early access video is on the shorter side. Anyway, I have Great Plans but haven't yet had the Great Time to Execute said plans. The next few weeks look fairly busy as well, as this is a traditionally busy time in the day job, which is good for growing the full-time fund, but bad for executing lots of new ideas. We're getting there though, slowly but surely. The first noticable thing which comes out of all this will probably be the "100% evolution start default settings" less edited side project.

Enjoy!

Michael