If you didn't already know, over the last year I've been working with Jazza, Moonkey and a bunch of other fantastic people on a huuuuuge RPG called Ortus. Because it is so large the development time has become a financial strain on the team. We'd like to crowdfund through kickstarter so we can finish the game much more quickly and smoothly and spend more energy on polishing during testing.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/te djazzastudios/ortus-the-rpg-of-your-dr eams

We're offering some nice rewards in exchange for supporting us. A $10+ pledge will let you join the earliest beta testing and for $50 you can name and design your own NPC character. The $300 pledge reward is pretty sweet (I wish we could do this cheaper, but its creating a fair bit of work for us) as you get to design a custom enemy creature and a custom NPC that gives out a quest chain with their own custom designed house.

At the start of December I'm going to drive from Adelaide over to Melbourne to hang out with Jazza for a week or more. It should be productive, as we'll work face to face, crunching on a bunch of projects. One of them is a music video I've had in the works for a while now, currently titled "Comet". The plan was to have it done by last Christmas, but my character skills are no where up to the standards of my background art, which was a huge roadblock. With Jazza helping out, a release this Christmas is much more attainable. And, as a bonus, every 10% milestone we make it on our Kickstarter, I'm posting a new Comet screenshot to my facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greg-Bar tlett-Artist/367648106022