Happy Friday, Members! Happy Sunday, StanDamFam!

Here's this week's sneak peek at our upcoming YouTube videos: Episodes 9 and 10 from our KOTOR series. In these Episodes, we learn that I suck at stealth.

That's okay though. Explosives are more fun anyway.

Just ask Battle.

Much Love, Fam! More sneak peeks next week!

Jamie

For the past couple of livestreams, you've all been watching me animate Tie Fighters and gaseous clouds for humor, but let's talk about what's going on off camera...

Ever since I started working with the animation tools in Clip Studio just a few days ago, I've been "Kid at Christmas" excited about all the animation headed your way. Between the game and our YouTube videos, we'll have so much fun and comedy to share. Which brings me to what you see above.

What you're looking at is the final version of our Jamie character as I begin to prepare him for animation. Yes, he's very simple and more cartoonish than before...he's suuposed to be!

As I began animating, I instantly realized that I had bitten off more than I could chew with the current character roster. The number of characters wasn't the problem, but their complexity would have made my early animation efforts a nightmare.

So this version is very much designed with animation in mind. Again, he's simpler but that's only part of the story: He's also "rigged" and drawn in layers, so that we can more easily move individual parts...depending on what's needed. 

The other really big news here is that with most of the character concepts already drawn, I'll be able to start drawing finalized chracters more rapidly now. Efforts will be more dedicated to figuring how to simplify and rig for animation, which takes less time than figuring out how you want it to look to begin with.

As always, keep an eye on our blog and on our Discord for more announcements and posts as things develop!  We'll see you all tomorrow on stream!

Much Love!

Jamie

Happy Friday, Members! Happy Sunday, StanDamFam!

Here's this week's sneak peek at our upcoming YouTube videos: Episodes 7 and 8 from our KOTOR series. In these Episodes, we learn that Battle plays a great Hutt. 

This is as useful a life skill as me being able to imitate a Tie Fighter, but it makes for great entertainment.

Much Love, Fam! More sneak peeks next week!

Jamie

Good Morning, Loves!

The very first thing I want to say to everyone, is thank you for this past Friday!!!  I want you all to know it was complete elation for me getting to stream, game, and just be with all of you again. It was an amazing first day of celebration, and I can't wait to do it all with you again today for day 2!

Before we go live today, I want to let all know what's happening with the live streams going forward. Here's our new schedule...

• Sunday: Hytale 12pm - 4pm ET
• Tuesday: Live Stream Development 12pm - 4pm ET
• Friday: Live Stream Development 12pm - 4pm ET
• Friday: Agents of Chaos (in-character stream) 7pm - 9pm ET

...and here's what we'll do with each:

Sundays: With the new Hytale YouTube series launching in the next few weeks, we'll use this time to build sets for the upcoming videos, including sneak peeks at what's coming, and show off what the community is working on in the server! 

Tuesdays and Fridays (Day Streams): For now, these streams will be used to build out the live streams themselves. These are art streams like we've been doing: but we'll be focusing on solidifying everything into the final Agents of Chaos visual identity (see the above picture). As a side note, I'm especilly looking forward to working on our new DICC-Around gags and emotes with all of you live.

Friday (Night Stream): The later streams on Fridays are our "in development" streams, and deserve special attention. Without getting into very long explanations here, these are going to be a new experiment where we develop short, high-energy streams that can be turned into full videos all on their own. More importantly, we'll be able to involve a lot more people and a lot more fun in the experience. 

For now, these streams will be in-character experiments in some of the most insane games we can find. So expect a lot of storm chasing, RV driving, and shooting fish...along with any other trouble we can get into. 

Fam, it is so good to be back on camera and developing these new experiences for you. As always, there will be more announcements and information coming with full details, but if you have any questions in the meantime, please let me know! 

With all my Love, Fam!

Jamie

Hello again, Fam!  It's time for this week's YouTube sneak peek for episodes 5 & 6. Expect to see some of this hilarity make it into shorts and some of our new "button" live stream redemptions...coming very soon. 

Much love, everyone! As always, more to come next week. 

Jamie

Good Morning, everyone!

I thought you would all appreciate a sneak peek at this weekend's prizes, and how giveaways are going to work.

So here's what we have planned so far:

• We'll do two giveaways on Friday, and two on Sunday.
• Friday's giveaways will consist of a swag box and a digital PC copy of How To Fish. 
  
• Sunday's giveaways will consist of a swag box and a digital PC copy of Hytale.
• Boxes can only be shipped to the continental United States. Winners outside this area won't get the box, but will still recieve the digital prize!

The boxes themselves include all kinds of fun swag... Stickers, keychains, Pops of various sizes,  and every box includes One Shot energy chews and a pack of the voice drops you always hear me go on about!

I'm getting very excited for this weekend, Fam! More to come!

With Much Love and Excitement,

Jamie

If there was ever a reason to celebrate, this is it. So I'm getting right into it...

LIVE STREAMS RETURN THIS FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 STARTING AT 12:00PM. 

Yes, you read that right. After a full month of struggling with our ISP, we'll finally be ready to go on Friday. Better yet, we're coming back with a celebration...

The FASHIONABLY LATE ANNIPLURSARY.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 - 12pm ET - 8pm ET
SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 - 12pm - 8pm ET

The stream will be on both channels:

https://www.twitch.tv/standarddamage
https://www.youtube.com/@StandardDamage

Fam, this is going to be a true celebration with a lot of chatter, fun giveaways, and a mix of comedic games such as How To Fish (trust me on this), Funnel Runners, Hytale, and OVTBRK. The goal being to play games where we can still pause and chat frequently with the community. 

I don't have to tell you all what a long road this has been, and I'm so grateful to finally be back with you. I have missed you all very, very much. 

We'll see you on Friday!!!!

With All My Love and Excitement, 

Jamie

Good Morning, everyone!

With the Fallout series wrapping up today, it's time to talk about the next series and what to expect from us going forward...

Because we're about to kick it up a notch.

For the next series, launching this Friday, we'll be playing Knights of the Old Republic. And thankfully the first 16 episodes were recorded and in process before our internet woes, helping ensure this will still be possible. 

As we don't expect to have our internet restored by Friday, we're going to try something a little different...

Please join us in our Discord this Friday starting at 7:00pm ET for an open  community night and watch party!

• Event will start at 7:00pm in the Discord with open discussion.
• Video series premieres at 7:30pm.
• We'll watch all four videos, with five minute breaks in between.  
• The event will end at approximately 9:30. 
  

Even if you're not able to join us, all four episodes will be available starting Friday night, with more Shorts starting up next week as well!

Enjoy the sneak peek at KOTOR everyone! Looking forward to seeing you all on Friday!

Much Love, 

Jamie

Let's get this out of the way first...

For those of you who aren't familiar, D.I.C.C.s are Damage Industries Cyber Companions. A fun tongue-in-cheek name for the characters we create. And, for extra fun, they've officially invaded our Discord.  

With all of the chaos surrounding our internet outage, I moved a few fun ideas up the timeline so we could still interact and have more fun together, even if our ISP refuses to let the live streams happen for now.

This has manifested in two ways: 

1. Stanton has taken over for Granny as the head of the TV station, and is now also in charge of the Discord. So expect a steady stream of fun changes to just about everything as we go. They're already posting news stories and official announcements. 

2. We now have an #ask-a-dicc channel in the Rift category, which will allow you to talk directly with the characters. Yes, if you join in over there you can ask them just about anything. Really!

To get a little more detailed about our current internet situation, everything is still the same since the last time I checked in ith you all on that. We ere hoping that we'd be back up and running by today, but another ISP mix-up means we probably won't have it for another 1 1/2 weeks. And yes, I'm giving you the short version on purpose.

However...

When it returns, we all have something to look forward to. I'm working on a new Live Stream format, and if this all goes to plan I'll be asking you all for direct help sooner rather than later. Without going into grand details, I'm going to start by asking the members who would be interested in joining a comedy team to help control the chaos of the new shows.

Consider that a teaser. More to come as I start to get some things built in.

On a personal note, I really miss all of you and it's just so frustrating to not be able to do anything about it. Stay tuned, I promise you'll know the second that I do. In the meantime, I'll take the oopportunity to keep building out our infrastucture so we can have more fun offline, and even more fun when we get back. 

With all my Love, Fam!

Jamie

It's that time again, and this one comes with news...

Episode 28 will be the last episode from the Fallout series, at least for now. 

While Battle and I were letting these episodes play out, we started working on two other series: Knights of the Old Republic and System Shock 2. The results have been incredibly fun to watch, and we can't wait to share these with you in the upcoming weeks. We'll kick off the Knights series in the next couple of weeks with a premiere of the first episode, immediately followed by the launch of episodes 2 - 4 right after the premiere. After that, the schedule will remain the same as it did with Fallout, right down to the sneak peeks here on the blog. 

System Shock will follow that a few weeks later, and is a different kind of series: Battle and I both recorded our gameplay and we're working on ways to show it from different angles. Because there are some logistics to work out with this new format, it will take a little extra time before this sees the light of day. I will absolutely keep you posted with some extra sneak peeks as things progress!

With all my Love Fam! Enjoy the clips!

Jamie