Happy Thursday everypony!

Been a heck of a week in the Fallout community eh? We get news that the GECK is coming out in April in between DLCs for Fallout 4, the Fallout: Equestria Animated Series project releases their orchestral score and of course, Overmare releases their Wave 3 Tech Demo for the Fallout: Equestria game!

Congratulations to everypony over at Overmare Studios. I know they’ve been working insanely hard to get to this point. Things look pretty sweet, though I haven’t personally had a chance to dig in deep to the game yet. I have learned the the game doesn’t like being run on a virtual machine though. ^^; (Yes, shocker, I actually run primarily on Mac using either virtual machines or Boot Camp…and they also mentioned that it was designed for higher-end systems which a virtual machine is definitely not).

This is a huge accomplishment for them. After all, as I understand it, they started as a mod project before they decided to buck the GECK/Gamebyro engine and go into Unity 3D. You can do just about anything in Unity. Did you know that Blizzard’s wildly popular Hearthstone actually runs on the Unity engine? So just think, if Blizzard Entertainment can harness Unity to create something like Hearthstone, the final product for the FO:E game is going to be pretty damn sweet.

So if you haven’t checked it out yet, you can get the tech demo here and the trailer below!

Now, let’s talk audiobooks shall we?

I hope you’ve been enjoying the latest version of Fallout: Equestria (The Manehattan Edition) and the daily updates to the playlist! Remember, stay tuned on our Twitter Account to know the moment they go up or just subscribe to us on YouTube! Either works!

You can find the full playlist below!

Hmmm. Lot of links in this post. Oh well.

As for internal development, I’m so very happy to say that the largest level in all of GoE has FINALLY been completed. Sector 3 of the Rock Farm is central home to the most advanced weapons and armor prototypes developed by Equestria before the bombs fell. A massive vertical level that spans twelve stories with an enormous experimental power core dominating the center shaft, this is where you’ll discover the HARMONY-Series Power Armor based off the Ministry Mares, the experimental weaponry you’ve had a glimpse of in Smuggler’s Run and so very much more.

While originally designed as one massive interconnected level, I eventually split it up so it wouldn’t turn computers into smoldering heaps of slag trying to load everything! (Seriously, it would take about a full 1-2 minutes to load properly in the GECK…I realized it would crash less powerful computers in-game). Now, Sector 3 is actually compromised of over 10 different cells (levels) while still keeping the massive internal structure of the central core intact!

Now, I’d love to show you it in action, but I kinda want to keep it a surprise. However, when we’re closer to launch I have a really cool idea and I’ll probably let you all see it then. 😉

What? I can’t show you all the good stuff right now or else there won’t be any surprises! (Though frankly, I think you’ll be blown away by the sheer audacity of the GRF).

Finally, I was hoping to have one more surprise for you, but it looks like that will have to wait. I may break the Thursday Post rule to reveal this little bit of side work. And before you think that I do more work on side projects than the game itself, it’s how I take my breaks! When working on a project like this, it’s extremely easy to hit burnout. It’s important to pace yourself. So there!

Anyway folks, I hope you’re all doing great with all this Fallout goodness coming your way. Don’t worry, we’re still launching This Coming Storm for New Vegas. We’re going to have a damn good reason to come back to New Pegasus. I promise.

Until next week, have fun and stay safe out there!

-Novel Idea

(Featured art by http://chiramii-chan.deviantart.com/art/Overmare-403734262)