June 2023 Newsletter

Summer has finally arrived and with it so has a new season for me! Things in the AM world are always changing, which is the way I like it. This season brings some new news on the AM front, continue reading below for the *big reveal....*

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Executive: Latest version of the P&B available Saturday June 3rd. Lot's of work has been done around Grafton and Allegheny North. Grafton is filling in really nicely and the area just north of Allegheny where Phase 2 connects is beginning to shape up as well, finally linking the two sections.

Allegheny North as I'm going to refer to it, is a suburb of the city of Allegheny and will mostly consist of a few small business and homes for those who work and commute to Allegheny. The main feature here is where the mainline runs through a deep cut, splitting the town in half. I've been cautious to not overdo it here and end up with another sprawling town to have to build out but I must admit it's still larger than I initially expected to be building 🤷🏻‍♂️ At the very least it's going to help bring the build together and transition the scenery to the Huntingdon Paper Mill area.

Dispatcher: Monthly live stream will be Wednesday June 7th. Let me know what you'd like to see me working on!

Project Manager: This month I have a few more townhouse style buildings I'm planning to port in. In all honesty, I waited until Memorial Day weekend to snag this pack on sale so it still has a bit of work before they'll be in the game. A few buildings will trickle out early this month and the rest will come in July assuming nothing goes wrong.

Station Agent: Weekly Wednesday hangouts at 7 PM EST as usual and now occasionally a weekend happy hour 🥃

Model Railroader: I should have a new "short" video on the layout coming some time this month followed by a second one a bit later on. Just gota find the time to assemble all the footage. 

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News

I'm excited to announce that I'm joining the N3V team as their Community and Marketing Manager beginning May 30th! 🎉 In this role, I'll be working closely with the N3V team to produce promotional content for their social media channels, blogs and newsletters. I'm confident I'll be able to best communicate game development updates to the community in this position and I'm eager to dive in! 

This position shouldn't interfere much with my AM or Patreon content and I'm hopeful that it'll only improve the content I produce. You guys will just be hearing even more from me 😁

That said, things might get a little complicated come July and part of August when I work my summer camp gig for a few weeks in the mornings. But I'll cross that bridge when I get there. 

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Other than all of that, I took some time off between jobs and I'm happy to say I'm feeling a lot more like myself once again. After spending a week in the mountains with my wife and ten gazillion black flies, I'm ready to dive back into the game and get some work done! 

Thanks again for all of the support and I hope you're all looking forward to more!