People, friends, enemies, strangers – hello and once again thank you for using your previous seconds and minutes (hours?) to peruse my stuff. The year has gone by QUICK my ou, and so I think it a good idea to hit that imaginary checkpoint in the form of a POST to signify what is HAPPENING in my work life.
I posted most of this a week or two ago, but then our sites got infected with casino spam, so we reset to an earlier backup which meant I lost the post. So I’m reworked it and added more stuff
In short I’ve been working pretty much ONLY on my passion projects for the last 2.5 years, which has been a real treat. I passed on one freelance enquiry at the start of 2025 I think, and lo the Universe prob said ‘that’s it for you boyo’, so I’m working as hard as I reasonably can while things are quiet, to capitalise on the s p a c e. One of those things where it’s like when I’m busy I say ‘if only I had more time for personal projects’ and now I DO have that time, so best use it wisely.
Bru & Boegie – Episode 2: Get da SUGAR!
I’ve been very focused on finishing up the demo for Bru & Boegie: Episode 2 – Get da SUGAR! (which is a PC, Mac and Linux ‘fictional’ entertainment point & click comedy videogame) for so long now that my grip on reality might be weakening (or getting stronger?) by the day. Progress on that is going well: Besides Bru & Boegie’s voices that I do, all other character voices have been masterfully recorded and performed by Martinus Van Tee – huzzah! The voices have been mastered along with great ambient and sfx provided and created by Pete O’Donoghue – huzzah! Excellent music has completed by Wayne Simpson – Huzzah! I even convinced my wife to sing on one of the tracks – Huzzah! And it all looks and sounds great, writing was completed some time ago by me and Sheldon Bengtson – Huzzah! I’m putting the sfx in and completing the remaining animations and bits and bobs I had ideas for, though at some point one probably does need to say OK WOAH guys TOO MUCH SCOPE CREEP but the whole THING is a scope creep so I mean, I just wanna make it rad. I have crammed a LOT of stuff into this Episode 2 demo, and plan to launch it on both Steam and itch.io in a couple weeks once all the remaining bits and bobs and testing are done.
Also an update post about it on Steam, though it’s a bit outdated by now:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3820530/view/689756275232211694
A THIRD Bru & Boegie game?! What da.
The second game’s not even out yet, but a third game’s been announced? What da. The OTHER thing I’ve been doing is planning Episode 3 far along enough to create a Steam page for it. The meta suggests focusing on getting Wishlists on Steam before release, and since my plan for a long time has been to make this a trilogy of games, I decided to get that Steam page up early. So, here’s some all-new screenshots for Bru & Boegie: Episode 3 – Get da COFFEE! – the ridiculous (and thrilling?) conclusion to Bru’s would-be-simple task of trying to find a suitable coffee beverage that ended up being a Sisyphean 3-game outig. Yes, it’s dumb and yes I dig it. If you use Steam, please do me a favour and Wishlist it, dankie.
Reader, I also have a number of semi-completed projects I work on from time to time to try and get over the finish line in their own time.
Bunny Comix
A book? Yes. ‘BUNNY COMIX VOL. 1’. I decided at some point to collect all the Bunny Comix I’d drawn into a PDF and then stick it on Gumroad or something for free. It’s one of those things that I started ages ago and felt compelled to finish, for the sake of completion I suppose. I drew this cover on iPad partly in bed I think, and partly in front of the TV listening to something on TV. It was a fun personal project, a collection of reflective introspective comics featuring a bunny whose name I suppose is ‘BUCK the BUNNY’. Here’s 2 new ones. Hey, maybe I’ll get back into drawing them? I have I think 44 comics, might try make it 50 for the book.
Bru & Boegie – Bonkers
Over COVID I wrote and drew the most bizarre convoluted conspiracy story one page at a time without too much of an idea of where it was going. I think I posted a page or a couple pages a day on Instagram for a while (when I still had my Insta account). It ended up being so silly but I figure maybe as well collect it into a PDF and stick it online or something. I may print a couple copies as gifts or something. Here’s the WIP cover I’m working on.
Moosebox Video
A while ago I recorded quite a long video about ‘What’s Happened to Moosebox?’ I can see people visiting the site after searching for Moosebox, and since it’s been a while I figured maybe an idea to make an ‘official’ video to give the project a dignified death. I guess I just gotta add in the B-Roll footage so it’s not just a vid of me talking for like 40 minutes or whatever. Another ‘I’ll finish it when I’m ready’ project. Currently my focus is finishing Bru & Boegie: Episode 2 game demo.
Bru & Boegie: METEORITE
My Bru & Boegie: METEORITE animated film has got into 7 film festivals, which is nice. I plan to launch it on my YouTube channel later this year after a bit of social media posting and whatnot.
Da End
ALRIGHT! Well, that’s more or less it on the work front. Thanks for reading. Please enjoy this incredibly detailed miniature my wife made of my Mom’s study (photo courtesy of my Mom). I think it’s probably about 25cm x 25cm – tiny, with so much detail.
