Gardening/Business = While replenishing my collection of herb plants, I now am in a good position to begin a new venture to add to my herb business: Selling dried herbs. I have a hanging herb dryer, a collection of glass mason jars, and a cool dry place to store them.

Art = Progress has been slow, but getting there. Normally, I like to surprise folks with gift art, hence I don’t detail my projects in public. Most of what I’ve been doing was touch up some older art works, but I have also started on new stuff for people whom have not gotten anything from me yet.

Video Game Ideas = If you have been keeping track of me for a while, you probably remember some of my wild ideas for video games, and at one point, I tried to actually create one on my own (which failed miserably, all my fault). Anyway, I’m still working at writing my ideas and hopefully composing documents which could someday be marketed into working projects by professionals. Here are some summaries of my top projects I’ve been working on, some new ideas and other stuff that have been on my drawing board for YEARS…

XCOM: World at War - A prequel-type game to my newest fave game, XCOM Enemy Unknown. Set during the events of World War 1, ambassadors from both sides meet in secret to establish a clandestine task force to intercept and halt alien activities that are exploiting the war for a potential invasion.

Untitled Tank Game (No, it’s not the name of the game) – One of my oldest projects that is hardly partially completed. It’s to be a modern tank combat simulation set in a fictional world, with three separate story arcs of three rival countries & various sets of vehicles to choose. There’s also a real-world WW2 version game that I’ve started a long time ago, and barely progressed.

Chernobyl – FPS/survival/horror game set shortly after the events of the Chernobyl Disaster. The story starts off after a group of Soviet scientists disappear in the Red Exclusion Zone and checkpoint guards have been discovered dead by different methods, and two to three story arcs depending on what side you choose: Soviet Spetsnaz, NATO special operations, or probably a third faction (which I haven’t thought of what to pick). In one of these arcs, you’ll have to survive against opposing factions, mutants, and even the radioactive environment

The Gem Cutter – 3rd-person shooter/adventure game sort of along the lines of Tomb Raider & Uncharted, but with a twist. The main protagonist is a treasure hunter that specializes in rare gems, and is often hired to find the rarest in very inhospitable places. Besides the usual solving puzzles, shooting bad guys, and recovering treasure, the player also does bartering of treasure for money, equipment, & vehicles, and can even hire mercenaries with various talents for future missions.

Kitsune – A fantasy stealth game focused on two main protagonists, a pair of shapeshifting kitsune fox spirits of different origins. Picking one, and sometimes switching between characters, the kitsunes must do various tasks & missions in different human & non-human settlements, while at the same time using their shapeshifting to avoid being discovered.