https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/MatthewLHornbostel<\/a><\/p>\n Better: All prices are 25% off during the Black Friday\/Thanksgiving\/Cyber Monday span. So if you want an item… now is a good time for 25% off.<\/p>\n Pinteresting… <\/strong><\/em>As a result of posting a ton of freshly revealed .GIF clips from my video productions and other projects,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>I’ve had a staggering 800+% spike in Pinterest views from October to November, which I suspect drives some of the activity I’m seeing elsewhere [the above Etsy sale, for example].<\/p>\n Check my Pinterest boards to see why that’s taking off like crazy:<\/p>\n Pinterest – Matthew Hornbostel’s profile<\/a><\/p>\n And also active [through Cyber Monday is a jaw-dropping 81% off sale on all of my Itch.IO stuff [asset packs with 3d models, stock video FX elements, and texture maps] bundled together. Five asset packs (AND) an early Miniature Multiverse preorder, for $1.69.\u00a0 Here’s a direct link to the bundle page:<\/p>\n Holiday Bundle – Cyber Monday sale!<\/a><\/p>\n There are some new GIFs, video clips, and stills scattered across my ITch.IO pages to showcase the evolving status of my asset packs. I pushed a big update recently to some of them and will be posting some smaller incremental updates very soon – fixes to a few texture-file links and a couple of other small but noticeable glitchy details [like the dandelion texture which I noticed issues with] and I’ll also be adding the long-awaited hanging spanish moss to the ‘Marshes & Meadows’ pack. So those fixes will be posted soon. I tried to participate in the Icehouse Game Jam but fell behind my intended schedule and opted not to submit a very incomplete minigame. However, I’ll still finish the mystery game production [teased on Twitter & Pinterest] at some point.<\/p>\n A new plan… I am working on overhauling HornbostelVideos.com and TriumphantArtists.com.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n There will be a lot of new\u00a0 stuff for everyone, massive improvements in content and responsiveness for various devices and the new drop-down navigation is way nicer, plus my video-player setup is way cooler, with a wide range of professional-ish features. Plus it’s all way cleaner looking and no giant endless blocks of text. And long awaited comics and a few more articles actually posted which are not currently available.<\/p>\n HOWEVER, VIDEO IS STILL A LEGAL MESS:<\/p>\n There is a tangled mass of challenges in terms of dealing with video content I have made over the years. I’d love to hit the ground running VERY FAST the day this large-scale new overhaul goes live in mid January of 2020. I need to convince the assorted family and friends to accept terms I’ve laid out [quickly] but that’ll require them to believe signing on [ie allowing their roles to be public and facing possible embarrassment] will somehow be worth it. I have a way to do this but it’s a bit tricky in a few ways, and I will NOT guarantee the online survival of the site video content beyond its first year. I do think I could pull off the plan [but] it’s contingent on this stuff finding an audience.<\/p>\n TV networks need subscribers or millions of live viewers bombarded with commercials, and I will not intrude on my stuff with video ads stalling the video content, nor will I require a subscription or paywall. There will be a still, not animated, banner ad at bottom of each page below the video stuff, and a widget for social media sharing, and that is *it*. So I expect far less revenue per viewer, as a result, than ‘TV’ because I refuse to be intrusive and wish to respect my audience.<\/p>\n Resulting harsh truth: I’ll launch with about 25-30 videos in the site library, and each of them needs to, on average, hit nearly 7,000 unique, REAL views\/month. Minimum. That is, 2 million total [combined] video views in the first year. I have had family express skepticism that my VFX-laden, comedy and\/or action videos will be of any interest to the broader world.<\/p>\n Well… Pinterest is a fascinating case study. The REASON my Pinterest views have exploded to 800-900\/day has mostly to do with about a dozen amusing .GIFs from my video projects. Some of those have been seen by *thousands* of Pinterest viewers. So I figure, if a 5-10 second GIF loop from me grabs a thousand viewers in the past week… how well might the actual high-res video do? I truly believe what my family finds fun the world will too. So that’s why I’m emboldened to give this a shot.<\/p>\n THE SCHEDULE:<\/strong><\/p>\n Currently, the Cyber Monday sales are active –\u00a0 and some Etsy art is viewable and some Itch.IO asset packs updated, but little else is new.<\/p>\n Lots of gamedev, video, and web design stuff is going on in the background during December, though.<\/p>\n Jan. 20th, 2020 – the web network updates go live including way more video content, new design, comics, articles… etc.<\/p>\n Feb. 15, 2020 – the Miniature Multiverse extras pack and a bunch of new preview material gets posted online, generating further buzz.<\/p>\n March 15th, 2020 – the full game (Miniature Multiverse) hits Itch.IO and Steam.<\/p>\n Shortly after that I will be reevaluating my plans based on how successful or not, that game’s been. If it goes well, more will happen faster. We’ll see.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello everyone, hope you’re having a good time as 2019 nears its end. I’ve got a few key updates for all of you. Etsy update – My often dormant Etsy shop actually has some listings available again. 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