UPDATE—It's Been A While
From branching out to short form video content, to writing more at Forbes, and more. Here's what I've been up to lately.
It’s been a while since I posted anything here. Whoops. I wanted to try to be consistent, but I just haven’t really kept up with it. Life happens!
As you can assume, my Dreamcast Review Project hasn’t made much progress lately, but I have continued collecting Dreamcast games and retro games generally. I’m up to nearly 800 games in my physical collection, nearly 100 of which are for the Sega Dreamcast.
I ran into some issues with finding time to record footage of games for review, since I want to play and capture all my own footage for those videos, like I did with Aerowings and Air Force Delta. I think I might have a good solution finally, so I can get back to it soon.
As for what I’ve been up to in the meantime, I’m very active over on TikTok these days. I share my game pickups, impressions of games, quick reviews of games, general collecting conversations, and also promote TikTok Shop products here and there that I like and recommend. I cross-post some of those videos on my YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels also.
For actual paying work, I’m still a full-time communications manager at Meta, working on the Quest blog, as well as consulting internally on games and products in development. I also consult with publishers and developers on their games via my solo agency, and I write for Forbes as a part-time contributor focusing on retro games and MMO games. Most recently, I reviewed Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition, the latest batch of Evercade Super Pocket consoles, and had some news articles take off like this one for Aion 2.
One of my main goals for the near term is to get back to longer videos on my YouTube channel. I published a video version of my Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition review, for example, that’s hit over 1,000 views in a day, which is really exciting for a tiny little channel like mine.
I’m trying to decide what I want to do with this Substack and if I want to continue with it. Perhaps I can just use it to write a bit about what I’m playing, kind of as a companion to the things I make videos about. And updates on my collection. And of course, the Dreamcast Review Project as I’m able.
Let me know what you think! What have you been up to lately?
Nice to see you again, David!
Ultimately, I love the idea of you continuing your "play and review every Dreamcast game" project, but it's important not to burn yourself out. Often I have too many ideas, projects I want to start, just not enough time. So what do I REALLY want to invest in with my free time? The other things can wait or just fall off completely.
Whatever you decide, all the best to you in your life adventures!
Sometimes taking the pressure off a project can reinvigorate it. So I hope to see you pop up every now and then with a new entry in the Dreamcast series. I've enjoyed seeing those underappreciated games in its library get their moment to shine.
Rock on Jagger!