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Despite being my first ‘proper’ cohost post (is it cohost? Co-host? Have we got a Spider-man hyphen situation going on?), this isn’t about the potential demolition of Twitter.

No. Instead, it’s about my monumental and dramatic return to Doing Things. For one reason or another that I won’t bore you with (QRD: got married, was nearly homeless, bought a house, changed Day Job company, got a dog, family bereavement, honeymoon, whole Thing), I haven’t been as consistent in producing Good Stuff in 2022 as I’d like to be. That all ends now(ish).

First things first, I am a game publisher and the first thing I need you to look at is NekoNecro, a high-quality, hand-drawn, immensely polished and frankly nearly AAA 2D platformer from my good friend Jay.

This’ll get a proper rundown post eventually but for now, just, y’know… Go and buy it. Just do that. Trust me. It’s brilliant.

So that’s Jay sorted. I guess let’s do Meeeee.

I run a YouTube channel. It’s called Let's Talk Game Design and it’s all about talking about game design, because I’m very good at naming things. You should go check that out. It’s not had a proper upload in ages (see the QRD above) but that’ll be changing soon. There’s a lot going on there too, so go look at that.

There’s also a couple of things that haven’t made it to LTGD yet. One of them is this.

It’s a sort-of ‘artistic’ story-driven nearly ‘cinematic’ top-down twin-stick shooter with the working title of Enough. I’ll have to elaborate more on this in a video because, looking at it, it doesn’t look like the sort-of thing I usually make. It’s quite a little bit slower and more thoughtful than you’ll have seen from my previous twin-stick shooter coverage (as part of SMASH, which is still coming, which you should check out on That Channel That I Do) and it’s as close as I get to making an ‘art game’.

It’s something I’m hoping to flex one of my stronger but as-yet-unused skills on; writing. I am, believe it or not, a pretty good writer (please don’t take this post as any indication of that, I really like parenthesis when I talk, I don’t write like this, please stop judging me oh jesus no the pain). In fact, I’ve got a couple of novels you’ll be seeing eventually! I’m very multifaceted, y’see. Dunno if you’ll like them, but we’ll get to that at some other point because I don’t have anything to link you to yet.

There’s another thing I’ve just started work on, which I can only really tell you about, because it doesn’t exist yet. See, for my honeymoon, I visited DisneyWorld in Orlando. And as part of that, I rode the very excellent Tower of Terror. When I came off that, I couldn’t help but think “man, a low poly, low res, elevator-based horror game could be really simple and fun”, and oh boy is me thinking things dangerous! So, that might happen, at some point. That’s a thing to think about.

And that’s me, for now! Lot going on, lot to catch up on, will all get posts of their own. But hello world, I am on Cohost. Officially.

I can finally post! I am an indie game Youtuber/occasional streamer and I post lots about indie games on twitter.com/mckennagames. Not sure how much I'll post here, but you can check out my videos at https://www.youtube.com/c/HarvestGamerMckliz

Finally!

myke_tuna gaming has landed on cohost! And I've been u n l e a s h e d! So I can make posts now. I figured I might as well tell you the state of my channel with my first post in the form of a "Channel Update"!

Yeah, well, unfortunately... The channel is on an indefinite hiatus. I know. Lots of build-up for nothing 😅. I've just got a lot of things going on in my life (both personal and professional) that get in the way of me getting back into it the way I want.

So rather than add the additional stress of trying to make it work, I'm just going to wait until I get things in order before I make a return. And when I do, I plan to use this cohost page as a "state of the channel" type of blog with these Channel Updates alongside highlight reels and other things I can think of.

A huge benefit of not being in this for the money and doing it all for free is I can afford to be patient. I'm not chasing monetization or worrying about the algorithm(s). I just do this for shits and gigs.

In other words, I don't have to constantly put stuff out.

Meanwhile...

In the meantime (when I do find free time) though, I spend my time working on various odds and ends around the whole channel. Just recently, I've worked on:

1. Some new social media buttons for all the new "myke_tuna gaming" social media accounts I've made
2. Updating the banners to reflect the new social media pages
3. Updating my social media landing page with the new links
4. Planning how I'm going to actually use all these social media spots and what type of content goes where

The next thing I want to work on is converting the myke_tuna gaming logo/icon/symbol to a vector. Something I've been wanting to do for a while now. It would make scaling it while maintaining the whole structure of the thing much easier.

Channel Updates Hashtag

Also, I think I'm going to settle on the hashtag #myketunagamingupdate to get these channel update posts to pull up on a search and also #ChannelUpdate*#* with # being the update number. (Considering this is Channel Update #0, there won't be much to search right now 😅)

Anyway, that's gonna be all for now. Thanks for stopping by.

And as always, blessings! 🙏🏼

(Big ups to nathan aka Elkaddalek on DeviantArt for the Sinistar gif) https://www.deviantart.com/elkaddalek/art/SINISTAR-169386640