Welcome to My Plans After Dragon Engine

Hello. C J here. As of soon Dragon Engine will be fully planned and I'll know how to make all of it. Past there it will be a job of slowly making the 3D assets, coloring them and using free tools to make menus, quests, combat and similar. I am ready to start planning my next batch of work. Dragon Engine will see regular updates for pretty much forever but they will be built on the same core concepts. This is 20 years of planning done forever.

Next? Animations. I have such a hard time finding things I want to watch. I'm sure I'm not alone in this. I'm going to be making a number of hand drawn, fountain pen art animated series. Yes, I'm bringing movies and TV back to their roots and hand making everything including the backgrounds. I can reuse frames both for characters and environments so the actual workload is a lot smaller than you might think. Here's my plans.

I have two educational series planned. Food of the World will be animated and yes, I'm hand drawing characters chopping carrots, stirring soup and making drip coffee. This is, firmly is, what I'm doing for fun. All Myths Are True is my answer to the magic university genre and is set at the Order of Mages. It deals with explaining the setting's magic system and its real life roots through the lives of a team of main characters.

My novel project The Relic Wars will probably he converted into a movie or miniseries. Also in the same setting region is a slice of life romance I'm calling Ascalan Summer. I'm planning the big ticket item to be Weaver, an epic fantasy set in the Astral and starring all of The Astral Ten. I'm going to continue adding to this list so don't expect the medium to go downhill after I finish the set. I am also going to look into using my company budget to have individuals or even teams work with me as script writers or animators. We'll see. More soon.

C J Mcpherson

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The Tunnels Under Haven

Hello. C J here. Walking down the streets of Haven is not always as safe as the city would like people to think. Yes, they have curbed the banditry that plagues the Southern half of the Coastal Road. The Desert Princes whose cities dot the Southern coast of the Southern Continent if anything make the problem worse for themselves with their constant rivalries and politics. So no, a traveller in Haven or in the River Lands is unlikely to meet a bandit or other criminal sort. But then there’s the walking dead to consider. Many of the basements, catacombs and landmarks of Haven have old foundations from before the city had its current name. In ages long past it was one of two competing capitols for the Desert Empire, both of which unified under the first Sand King of the Gold Dynasty, the God-Lion. It was never his place of residence and both the other capitol and the rest of the Desert Empire are long since buried under the dunes. Well, people like to assume they’re buried. People wo...

Chinese Food That is Very Saucy

Hello. C J here. I read a lot of cookbooks. This is done mostly for fun. I’m currently reading a short but really interesting book about traditional Chinese cooking. The book was written by an Indian author who has clearly researched Chinese food very well but some of the translations of recipes or concepts get a bit strange. I’m currently done the soups and starters section and am onto the section labelled ‘food that is saucy.’ Cool? Is it also savvy? There’s a surprisingly large amount of ketchup in the recipes. No I don’t think I want a recipe for hot and sour soup that is thickened ketchup water with vinegar and a bit of cabbage. No I also don’t want to take a slice of white wonderbread, roll it into a tube, stuff it with canned corn, deep fry it and then top it with sesame seeds. What in God’s name do they eat in China? And why is it specifically an image of white wonderbread? China? Are you okay? I managed to take out the vinegar, water and corn starch that makes up most of the h...

Fantasy Plus Minecraft Server Project Update One

Hello. C J here. I thought I’d do a Fantasy Plus Minecraft server project update. Here’s the current state of the server. I’ve realized that you can cook over a campfire so I never need ovens. I have installed Blockbench and the Entity Editor Plugin. I have made stats, equipment lists and loot tables on paper for the gold skeleton themed enemies. Most of this will be run off three or four spawn eggs as the skeletons only need to go up in tier rarely and can have armour and weapon options including my spellbooks. I’m assuming this can be done in the entity plugin. I know zombies can spawn with armour sometimes. I will be recolouring the default skeleton to make my version, the sand skeleton. They will be run using mob spawners in the dungeons and in monster camps in the overworld. You cannot destroy them so get used to combat in these regions. I’ve spent a couple days learning Minecraft Bedrock Editor and I have the system of building worlds on the scale of tens of kilometre square...

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