Screenplay in the "can"

After 5 years and 2 different planets, the Black Powder | Red Earth screenplay is complete. We're hopefully going into production sometime in the next few weeks with Josh Taylor at the helm as artist. What started out as Halo meets PMCs has become more an Akira meets Body of Lies type thing, but peopled by the characters from Way of the Gun LOL

I fought against writing this kind of story for a while as I wasn't sure it would stand alone in the market place, but after a lot of trial and effort, it seemed best to let the story take itself where it wanted to. We're making the final adjustments to the game story line to accommodate the "canon" as detailed in the graphic novel, but they are pretty minor. Once we changed course about a year ago, the whole thing fell into place pretty quickly.

I can tell you it has been a labor of love that could not have been completed without the help of many people, who shall not be named at this time ^_^;

I have begun outlining the second story arc (Black Powder | Grey Sky) which will feed into the first expansion pack, hopefully out within 3-4 months from initial release. But that is still in research phase.

We are beginning work on a short doc piece that will give new folks a quick outline of the BPRE world. Inspired by other doc work and in no small means by the work of Neill Blomkamp, the piece will hopefully provide insight and some ideas about where the game came from and where it will take players.

Last word on Echelon stuff, we had a visit from Markus Eslitzbichler about a week ago. We discussed a lot of ideas we would like to try for an advanced BPRE game play demo and are trying to figure out when we can get a moment in edgewise to prototype our ideas. There were 4 maps in prototype form for BPRE when we hit the pause button on the FPS. I've got lots of ideas on how to take those maps to the next level, but that's the fun thing about time. It always let's you learn new things and form new ideas :)

In other news, the wife has started work at REI, my new favorite place to buy kit/gear. I snapped up a Timbuk2 Hemlock, a micron light, some Kuhl Ryder pants(for the winter) and Garmont's vegan hikers. We've been planning an emergency bag for sometime and with REI now front and center (15 minutes from home versus 1 hour to either CAMPMOR or Tent & Trails) we can actually put together a solid emergency pack rather than ordering from 20 different places across the Internet and getting bent over on shipping >o<

A new pet project I want to start a new blog called vegan gun fighter...I mean I have never taken a shooting class where the targets were deer or bunnies...it's always evil evil humans ^O^ I recently parted with my MAV in favor of a Mayflower Research QD low Pro rig. I figure, how many mags do I really need and I am looking for something as flat as possible. Mayflower seems to make pretty bomb proof kit too :) Hopefully I can take some more classes next year.

Have a better one.