Reborn:X

Hello everyone,

This is a rather big blog post and an announcement to show that I am not dead. I will try to keep it short and without incessant blabbering.

Life has been keeping me pretty busy and I haven't got much of a time or a creative input to be more active on the ModDB once again.

In the meantime I have (finally) created my own YouTube channel after writing a plan for it months ago and keeping it in limbo for even a longer period of time. Currently, my YouTube hosts just a few videos of various missions/campaigns from some of the most famous mods for the game Operation: Flashpoint. The game itself is quite an an old one and my main rationale behind the creation of this YT channel was that I wanted to show some unique gameplay for a game that is basically almost forgotten today. It is essentially a channel for the times of mission gameplays you guys probably haven't seen before. :)

This channel is very small and a bit disorganized (as with many other starting channels, I suppose). I plan to expand it a bit in the near future and to shift away from OFPR and old games into a something different, something more educational and informative perhaps. However, don't expect for the channel to be updated weekly with new content due to my life's schedule. All in all, I plan to shift to periodically shift the focus on the content in my channel, just as I did with the "screenshot storytelling" blog posts on this website a few years ago.

Youtube.com

I have also taken a liking to webcomics lately as I discovered the websites of Tapas and Webtoon.

I have noticed that sadly, most of the comics uploaded on these websites are either stereotypical Anime-esque romance (I think like 80% is literally Anime romance with most of that being gay love stories to boot, not that there is anything wrong with that.), ghost/supernatural horror stories or some historical tales and some South Korean apocalypse survival tales. Therefore, I have been thinking about this and the platform that the website of Webtoon is and I have decided to kind of start my own webcomic. Since I cannot draw good enough for a war story comic, I have decided to make use of game as the graphics platform for the creation of my comic. I have noticed that this is a kind of a niche that some other creators also create webcomics in the style of. So, why not to try making something unique with just Arma 2 and its massive amount of mods combined with a image manipulation software? I think it is worth trying to do.

Taiwan 200x

Currently, I have in plans a trilogy of sorts that is a short, 16 episodes/parts at maximum seperate story about a fictional, hypothetical war in the 21st century. "Taiwan 200x" is my most advanced in terms of finished content project that I will be uploading in the upcoming days. The webcomic is a story about a group of Taiwanese soldiers trying to survive a PLA invasion on a small island, far away from the Taiwan proper and the main war that happens sometime in the early 2000's. Also, I am not sure if I will continue to host via Webtoon or eventually switch over to Tapas if this turns as good as Tapas seems a bit more
user-friendly and not that "must be mobile device friendly!" creator experience in your face.

To sum up this blog post: I am not dead, just very, very busy (though still happy with life) and I will be once again trying to upload some of my creative stuff on the Internet as I did few years ago.

Have a good day, everyone! :)

- Reborn:X