Jethro 2 First to Fight
And, 13 Degrees of Separation:
Proteus was dead easy, after all, he/it is a mercury blob. But Defender and Sprite were a lot more challenging to do. I went through several mental iterations of them, and feedback from the Greek chorus saved me some headaches when I was set to buy Defender's armor. (it was going to be 2 or 3 others at different times, and even pieced together from all 3 at one point) Consider this their 1.0 appearance. Like Cortana, Fess, and other notable AI of Sci-fi, their image will evolve over time. (hopefully)
I had hoped to release Jethro 2 this month, but no dice. Maybe sometime soon. 13 Degrees will come out a month or so after. (even though it's been edited a lot more than Jethro 2...the reason is simple, it has spoilers)
In other news: I've dived back into PB and added 16 pages to it since Friday afternoon. (almost 1/2 again it's previous size) I've got some things to work out, but it's on track, even if I'm behind schedule. The great thing about being your own boss, you only have yourself behind if you fall behind in self imposed deadlines. :)
I don't know how much I will get done today, it's family day so... you know. Distractions... sigh. :) We'll see. I want to take my time with some parts, there are a lot of things going on, and some stuff coming to light is... oh boy! This is... no, can't telegraph it. GRR. Well, you'll just have to wait and see wont you? >:D
I also rendered (again) some pieces of Beachhead. But I did it uncompressed, so they are just a weee bit too big to upload. (try 1.93 gigs each) So, I'm going to play with converting them later.
Oh, and for anyone looking for that spinner on my youtube channel, I've got 3... or should I say HAD. Youtube deleted the one with it in it so I need to re-up it sometime in the future. Sorry about that.
When will Jethro 2 First to Fight come oit
ReplyDeleteI don't know. Brandon just gave me an update, he's near the end but had to slow down due to midterms. I want to run it past at least 1 more volunteer before I release it. HOPEFULLY (fingers crossed) you will see it by the end of the month. Hopefully. No promises though. (out of my hands)
ReplyDeletehooray, my request to fantastic fiction bore fruit
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Hey I wanted to say thanks for all of the maps you up loaded! You must have painted a better picture in the book BSC. The maps were spot on for what I imagined, only thing is that I thought Copper Town further north and the refuge trail coming from the northwest(I didn't check).
ReplyDeleteI'm almost done with PRI, it's so far been very good. It makes me wonder if you have ever read another author who has a very polish name and also a series based on an engineer(Naming another author on your site seems rude).
Thank you Jim!
ReplyDeleteAdam: Yeah, I relied heavily on the maps when I wrote Bootstrap, going back to help imagine the terrain. I was going to map out the rain scene, but by that point I had enough to go off of.
I have a star map (actually several) for the engineer series, eventually I'll post it... or I'll finally get around to making the 3D version of it.
Other Author: Go for it. Name dropping I don't mind. I have read thousands of sci-fi books. Being compared to one of my idols is flattering. :)
Besides, it might be someone I haven't found yet! lol
hmmm, i am pretty sure i know who adam means :)
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