Charlie Pryor

Every week, I use this Poll feature to give four options for a stream. You choose, I play the winner on Tuesday. Easy as that. I have loads of games I just haven’t been able to get to. Let’s check some off the list! The poll winner the previous week will be included in case you want to continue it

So for this coming week, what am I trying out? You can use the comments below to suggest other games for FUTURE polls.

Please look up the titles before voting if you don’t know one or more of them. Many of the games I slip into these polls are indie or very new, and you may not have heard of them. VODs always available after the streams too!

13 hours ago |[YT] | 16

Charlie Pryor

Every week, I’m going to use this Poll feature to give four options for a stream. You choose, I play the winner. Easy as that. I have loads of games I just haven’t been able to get to. Let’s check some off the list!

So for this coming week, what am I trying out? You can use the comments below to suggest other games for FUTURE polls. We’ll do a new poll every week. The one played the previous week will be included in case you want it continued!

Please look up the titles before voting if you don’t know one or more of them. Many of the games I slip into these polls are indie, and you may not have heard of them.

VODs are available after the stream on demand, of course!

4 days ago |[YT] | 32

Charlie Pryor

Elite Dangerous mission is underway, and today’s very long stream is the only one available right away after the stream concludes. The details as to why that is, and how VODs for the streams will work for those, are detailed below that video on the channel already.

I’m having the next one tomorrow (Friday). See schedule on Discord.

For those uninterested in Elite Dangerous, or those streams, rest assured with the exception of tomorrow, all other days that are not Tuesday and Thursday will be dedicated to other projects, and I will usually have “regular videos” for you on the same days as the streams happen anyways, so while those are happening on those days, there will be other stuff on those days too.

I know they aren’t for everyone, and they aren’t really “in line” with usual content. They are still quite fun for me. My job is to maintain something that’s also fun for you too.

3 weeks ago |[YT] | 43

Charlie Pryor

Schedule should be opening up and giving me closer to full-time hours as of Wednesday. We’ll see how long that lasts. Thank you for your patience.

Big Ambitions moves forward at full speed again soon, as well as the Elite Dangerous adventure beginning on Thursday (Day 0 stream already scheduled on the channel, covering everything).

Unfortunately I’m going to call it quits on Space Haven. Time has kinda killed the interest for me at this time. It happens. Time kills a lot of things… and OMG so many better things have launched all around me without any time to look at them. You’ve all recommended and reminded me on so many of them as well. I wish I could just cover them all sometimes, but I’ve gotta really think about what I’m interested in right now. What’s fun for me today?

Life is stressful lately. Like, truly, I’m certain I have had more hairs turn gray in the last 6 months than in the previous 6 years. Games right now, above everything else, have to bring me genuine joy. I’m gonna start putting that forward with even more weight than before.

3 weeks ago (edited) |[YT] | 99

Charlie Pryor

So I have done that thing I do again, where I start too many things without the time to actually play them all. It’s a pattern I just can’t seem to shake. I like too many games, and this month is just insane for releases. Absolutely impossible to play even close to everything. So many games I’ve played in the past are going 1.0 at around the same time.

On top of that, I’m swamped with my kids, between my son’s baseball (I’m on the coaching staff) and music training, and needing to watch my daughter from 3pm onwards every day…

I’m about to make matters worse, in a way.

Some of you know, I love space games, and the popular major flight simulations. Specifically, many hundreds of hours in Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous. They are both individually very different games, better at completely different things, and I love them both. Depending on my mood and what I’m feeling like doing, I periodically choose one to spend any spare time I get.

Lately that itch to play has returned, as it usually does after a while away. When the desire is interaction, engagement in simulation, industry, and trade, or role playing life in a physicalized world, it’s Star Citizen. I have many streams of that more recently.

Today though, that itch is to see the unknown, and to explore. To find things nobody else has found - so naturally, Elite is much better for that. The last time I streamed it was about 3 years ago I think (there’s a playlist on the channel someplace). That’s before exobiology!

I have a major mission I’d like to start, next week if possible, as a regular live show twice a week, to explore Elite’s vast 400 Billion star galaxy to discover the unknown, and brave the dangers of deep space travel for a mission that will likely take me a year to complete:

I’m calling it a mission for “1,000 Full Firsts.”

Be the first to discover, scan, and land with boots on the ground, 1,000 times. That means taking our time in brand new systems, being thorough, so as to cover everything meaningful in any new system we discover that nobody else has seen before. Even after millions of players, and this game existing nearly 12 years, over 99% of star systems remain unexplored by anyone in the world.

If you’ve played Elite Dangerous much, you know what that means, maybe. It’ll be something I’ve never done before, but I’ve been preparing (and going through the engineering grind) for a couple hours every week for the last few weeks to prepare for this.

I’ll stream it live on the channel starting soon, VODs available afterwards as always. This will release alongside Big Ambitions. The Mission for “1,000 Full Firsts” will be a side project that goes live the same time every week until completed, with a live counter on screen showing our progress as we discover. It’ll be a legnthy task, with many months way out in the black.

Existing Projects:
As for Space Haven, it’s obviously not posting as regularly anymore. I’m not sure that’ll change much. I don’t want to say it’ll end up fading away as an unfinished project, as I really don’t like doing that, but at the end of the day, this is always about what’s fun, and when my mind is stuck on an idea, and it becomes something I think about all the time - it becomes a challenge to keep up the initiative and interest in other things, unless that itch is getting scratched too.

Other Games:
I’ve made a few videos on some other games too, but not committing to a play-through on them until Big Ambitions wraps, and then I’m gonna really really really try (and likely still fail) to only have one game at a time alongside Elite.

1 month ago |[YT] | 79

Charlie Pryor

It’s been a few days now since Big Ambitions released, and I have some tutorial/tips video ideas in mind, but would like to open the floor for ideas from you.

What sorts of things need more deep-dive videos on them?

1 month ago |[YT] | 89

Charlie Pryor

Flooded with this question, so I’ll answer it: Yes, I’m playing Big Ambitions for 1.0. I begin recording it as soon as I return from Texas on Monday.

You can always know what I’m working on, and when, by using our Discord server. The “content plans” channel there will always answer this question for you, updated in real-time as I work, 24/7. Discord is linked below.

1 month ago |[YT] | 213

Charlie Pryor

So Space Haven and Corsair Cove nearly tie, with Space Haven winning by what is basically just enough votes to have it show 33% instead of 32%.

My schedule continues to be pretty variable, and as a result of what I’m seeing up ahead of me, I can’t properly commit to live streaming yet.

So what I’ve decided to do, is videos… for both. I’ll treat them as if they tied, and get ya vids for both. Will get started this week pre-recording, and will start releasing them the following week, when my family and I are on a week-long trip to Texas. So it’ll be some things I can share while I’m away like that.

2 months ago |[YT] | 73

Charlie Pryor

About time for another poll again, this time regarding what I’m interested in streaming soon. I’ve been itching to get going with streaming again, so let’s see your vote on it! Which option looks best for you? I’ll get going either with streams or video in whichever wins after a week, depending on my schedule.

More info on each will be in the pinned comment below.

2 months ago |[YT] | 45

Charlie Pryor

So I know I have no videos lately… but on the plus side, I basically sat down and sprinted recording Software Inc for like 2 days straight now. Eventually when my family schedule cools down, I’ll take and edit that. ;)

3 months ago |[YT] | 108