Motorsport Manager - My 2023 season

Okay this season I remember as being good for some reason. I don't know if it's because we were competitive or because I felt comfortable with how I was playing the game. I started by having the livery be primarily black because the team's designated colour in the time sheets is black. In 2022 it was yellow because we're supposed to be the yellow team. So I started the style of having primarily black cars with a little yellow to reflect the time sheet colour and then the team colour. 

We started the season off the pace, just outside the top ten.

Round 2 was Munich and it was also wet, so we raced our way into the top ten.

Milan was very memorable, risking the 1 stop strategy with Nick Chu in the 13 lap race and pulling it off for a podium.🏆 Again, not qualifying higher than 10th.

We shocked with a 2nd and 3rd in qualifying at Ardennes. Then we went all out on dry tyres in the race, knowing that it was going to get wet, but pitted too early. Maybe the pace wasn't there, and Stef was bad on tyres again. Chu was best in 9th. Stef in 19th.

I don't know what happened at Munich 2, but after poor qualifying we raced our way into the top ten in a half-wet race.

Round 7 was Guildford, and after an okay intermediate qualifying with Stef starting 7th, we raced our way nicely into the top ten.

Then we went to Tondela again, where Stef shocked us all with an incredible start in the race, going from 12th to 3rd on the first lap and we managed to stay there for the rest of the race and score a podium.🏆 Chu didn't have the pace to get up the front with Stef, so he finished 11th.

After another race in Milan where we pushed into the top ten, I got to try out my reserve driver Kaori Aoto in Chu's car because he was incapacitated for a bit. I haven't forgotten that Black Sea race where she stuffed it up at turn 1 and I had to strategise her back to where she should have been. Last to 12th for her, Stef finished 9th because her tyre wear sucked.

Round 11 was Pheonix, where we qualified just outside the top ten and raced there too. Aori was okay and mixed it with Stef for the whole race, but wasn't as good as I thought she was. Her morale was falling rapidly too.

Aori's last chance to prove her worth was Doha, where Stef started on the front row and finished second too.🏆 Aori started back in 16th and I couldn't get her much further than 12th. The two races before, you could say that the cars weren't equal, but I gave Aori the best car possible for Doha.

Then Chu was back in the car for Cape Town, where we had a great qualifying with both cars in the top ten. Chu came 2nd and Stef fell down the order because her tyre life sucked. Then Chu was bumped up to 1st for both his and my first win after Santore was given a penalty for having an illegal part.🏆

Round 14 was Sydney, where for some reason the media thought Aori was going to race and so they thought that she would get pole position even though... Ugh. She just wasn't living up to her performances in practice. Chu and Stef qualified in the top ten, and Chu finished 3rd 🏆 while Stef had an issue at the end and had to pit, but stole the fastest lap anyway.

Beijing was strong for us. Chu qualified 3rd and Stef in the top ten too. We finished with both cars nicely in the top ten, but no trophy. Oh well. Nice race. I tend to go well at Beijing.

The final round was at Dubai and we just weren't on the pace. Stef qualified 7th, but that was the best that we had. Chu got our best race result in 9th, Stef 12th.

Chu was 10th in the championship, Stef 11th, and the team 5th.

I failed to resign Aori for the following season because her morale was shot. I wasn't going to sign her as a main driver, but her feedback was really good so I wanted her for practice sessions as a reserve.

Motorsport Manager - My 2022 season

Currently I am in the 2027 season, so 2022 was a long time ago in the game. This means that my understanding of that season is less about how I feel and more about what I think happened based on the screenshots that I took at the time.

First of all, I won manager of the season, so it must have been a good one.

We were really strong in pre-season testing, with Nick Chu 2nd and Cindi Stefanowski 10th. I still don't know how to capitalise on a strong pre-season test. It just gives you an idea of where your car's at heading into the new season, but at the end of the day your reliability is rubbish and you have to manage that. Looking at that screenshot, Stefanowski was really young when I joined the team. I don't normally sign really young drivers unless they're really talented, so 17 year old Stef was impressive at a young age.

We started the season well at Black Sea with both cars in the top ten and the team 5th in the standings. I've always managed to shine in wet qualifying and races. I think the AI suck at it. We had Kaori Aoto as the reserve driver, and she was always fast and good with feedback I think.

While I often shine in wet qualifying and races, sometimes I screw up the strategy and we have a miserable race. It doesn't help when your driver wrecks tyres too quickly, as must have happened in round 2 at Munich.

By the third round at Milan it's clear that 2022 was a grind. Barely in the top ten. I probably wasn't getting enough money to build new parts.

Tondela might have been the fourth round, and it was a shocker. Not in the top ten at any stage.

We bounced back massively with a double podium at Ardennes.🏆

I must have put new parts in the cars at Ardennes, because we continued our form with top ten capable cars at Munich 2. Aoto showed the world how good she can be by topping practice, as she tended to do on occasion. Moments like those got me excited about running her if one of the main drivers was injured or unwell.

Guildford was round 7, and Stefanowski beat Chu fair and square with 5th. I had to pit Chu at the end. His tyres were probably shot or I screwed up the fuel count. It was a wet race that started dry and got wet, then dried, then wet again. I probably ruined Chu's strategy with tyres, but Stefanowski had probably ruined her tyres and I didn't know it was going to get wet again.Stefanowski ahead of Chu in the drivers championship.

We returned to Tondela, struggled in qualifying, but got Chu to 6th while Stefanowski most likely ruined her tyres. Chu put himself within striking distance of Stef in the championship, which was disappointing. I always like to believe that my drivers are equally talented and that given the right opportunity they will get the same results, but sometimes Stef let me down. She was consistently behind Chu during the race, and I couldn't strategise her out of it because her tyres wore out too quickly.

Then we went back to Milan. We qualified on the edge of the ten, and raced forwards. Chu finished 5th while I had to pit Stef a few laps from the end. She should have been either immediately in front or behind Chu. Tyre life again.

Round 10 was the Black Sea again. It was mixed qualifying with Chu ahead in the ten and Stef down in 16th. That meant that unless Stef had stellar first stint or Chu had a shocker, they could be on the same strategy due to the gap between cars. We finished with both cars in the top ten, and Chu overtook Stef in the championship.

Round 11 was Pheonix. The standard layout of that track is always my Achilles heel. I don't know how to make it work. My engines are probably never good enough, and it's a power track so if you're not fast then you're gonna struggle. Just outside the top ten all weekend.

At Doha Stef showed how good she could be, keeping up with Chu and even beating him. We started outside the ten and got both cars in the back of the ten.

Then we went to Cape Town. Chu on the front row, Stef in the mid-pack. We simply didn't have great pace. Chu was up front until after his second stop. Then he couldn't get back. He finished 7th. Stef was in the top ten, but her tyres died in the last few laps and she fell backwards.

It looks like we were on for double top tens at Sydney, but Chu lost a wheel or wheelnut and had to make another pit stop. It was another wet-dry-wet race.

At the final race in Beijing, we were on the pace all race and got a double podium from top ten starts.🏆

 

Chu was 7th in the championship and Stef 9th. The team finished 4th. As I said before, I won manager of the season. Other teams must have had very mixed results, because 2022 wasn't my best year. Maybe because it was my first year starting with Archer.

My best FNF in ages!

 The Zuma part starts at 26:50.

I talk about when I first played Zuma on my late Grandad's computer, Ms. Pat and giving people as many chances as they need, and saving up for a house so that's why I'm not buying a new microphone or anything.

I'm proud of this episode and would love it if you could watch it and hear my stories and thoughts on life.

I don't like the SuperLite video

Hey guys,

I just watched my latest Supercars video which is about the SuperLite entry run by Matt Stone Racing in 2020. It's been six months since I made it. Back then I was happy enough with it, but now I'm not. I think that my next Supercars video will be different in terms of the way that I edit and structure it. I think that even though I stayed on the subject of SuperLite and similar programs, I maybe spent too much time talking about things that were a little complicated and unnecessary.

The section where I talk about the three MSR drivers and their Supercars racing experience is a little messy. The bit where I talk about how many years each driver had done was overcomplicated by talking about how Garry Jacobson had done 5 years of Super2 and 2 years of main game cars, and the same analysis for Jake Kostecki and Zane Goddard. The audio sucked, and I'm definitely really keen on improving it to be as good as SAIM console gaming videos are. 

I should have structured the video more step by step like I'd done in previous videos, just so that people know where the video is headed. 

I also will change the font that I use in the opening titles to one that you can read easily.

Ihasnotomato made comments in a Mab and Tom recording, and I will definitely consider and probably implement everything that he says to do.

That's it from me.

See Ya!

PS: Still playing heaps of Motorsport Manager, currently in 2027 with over 200 hours played.

Motorsport Manager - Ups and downs of 2021

 Hey guys,

So I've played my way into late in the 2021 racing season, and now I have a fair bit to write about here.

Firstly, I am no longer the manager of Espirit GP in the World Motorsport Championship.

I started the year spending as much as possible to make the new car the best it could possibly be, designing a new part straight away so that we could score points and get ourselves into 6th in the teams championship. Needless to say, we simply did not have the pace to get points. We started to score points in my last three races, and I spent heaps in the off-season to upgrade the team HQ. A new building, and two building upgrades including a simulator and telemetry, it was a massive disappointment to see that Espirit fired me and have failed to score points when they really should have been able to if they made their strategy correctly. I had a heap of setups that were always at least 70% competitive, and by the race it was always at least 95% competitive. It's a crying shame that I've moved on to better things and see a team that I poured my heart and soul into for almost five years fall to pieces. If it continues in the top tier then I would be surprised. We were always batting out of our weight. The worst team on the grid with one of the best pit crews challenging for the top ten regularly. The fact is that I made a mistake in expecting to be able to regularly finish 6th out of the 10 teams every race, and 6 races in I got the ultimatum to finish 9th or better to keep my job. We started very well, but maybe I pushed just a little too hard so that we were a few places ahead and this may have cost us my job.

Secondly, I am now the manager of Archer BMR in the European Racing Series, banging wheels with my old buddies at Octane. Archer is a very competitive team, and hopefully we can keep it that way in 2022. We're not in the red financially, a lesson from my mistake with Espirit, I had to fire Marion Fournier again. She was with Octane for a few years when I was with Espirit. She's a good driver, but her hotheadedness is a disaster for team cohesiveness. So I've got the drivers more-or-less sorted for the short-term future. I think I should invest in the team's HQ, and I'm keep on keeping the finances green and not paying drivers too much. We'll see how we go. I got my first podium with Nick Chu. Our other driver Cindi Stefanowski is good too, but we haven't been able to make it happen for her yet. I also found a good reserve driver in Kaori Aoto who is a strong backup in case one of the main drivers wants to leave. All of the drivers are contracted as reserve drivers, so it's a bit odd contract-wise. It's been a dramatic day that's for sure. We're in lockdown in South Australia, so maybe I've spent too much time playing Motorsport Manager :P

WTF this is so easy lol!

"This one's for the guys and girls at Espirit GP."

 Anyway I'll post more when there's more to say!

Bye!

Motorsport Manager - Excited for the 2021 season

I'm at the first round of the 2021 championship, and I'm simultaneously nervous and excited for the track action to commence.

The finale three races of the 2020 championship were surprisingly successful. I started spending money on designing new parts, got my drivers the new brakes that they wanted and a new engine for one of the cars. Soon enough we got a bunch more points and moved from 7th to 6th in the teams' championship, where the chairman predicted we would finish. So this season I figured that I would pull my finger out and get the new parts rolling so that we could get points throughout the season. We've also spent as much as possible to get the best possible car for the season. Hopefully we don't have too terrible a 2021 season. I'm putting myself on the line to get the results that we want so badly. Banging around the mid-pack is good racing, but I want podiums and wins. It would give me a warm feeling. I've also set the target of 6th in the teams' championship so that we're getting decent pay from the chairman and I feel that I've learned enough to really go for the results now. I'm sure that there are plenty of mistakes to come. One thing that I'm dead set on is keeping Johnny Navarro until he retires.

Motorsport Manager - Mistakes at Espirit GP in 2020

I had a wet race where I pitted both cars just before the rain started, but it didn't start for another lap and so the wets that I put on both cars were a quarter worn before they were competitive, and what's worse is that I should have put intermediates on. The track was truly wet for two laps, and was only wet enough for intermediate tyres the rest of the time. It was such a stuff-up that I gave up until the drivers complained about their tyres and I switched them to dries. Maybe I could have switched them to dries at the right time, but I was so devastated by how badly I'd screwed up the strategy. We were on for a podium, or points at least and it would have put us in a better position in the championship. Who knows what the rest of the season could have been like.

After looking at the screenshots, I think that Cape Town might have been worse than Beijing.

Then I had a race much later in the season where I got to put my reserve driver into one of the cars for the actual race. I have Sergio Arbeloa, who I used to watch win all the time in the European Racing Series. He qualified 12th and Johnny Navarro was 18th. My weather forecast said that it was going to be wet two laps in, so I had both drivers start on intermediate tyres. The first two laps were tough, especially as Arbeloa fell straight to the back with Johnny, but then the rain hit and we sliced through the field until we were 4th and 5th for a moment and then started falling back late in the race. The track dried up, but I kept running Johnny because he was better on tyre wear and it was going to rain in the last two laps. I pitted Arbeloa because he wanted to be on dry tyres, while Johnny would have been 17th if he pitted or something. It didn't end too badly. We finished 12th and 13th. Not bad at all.

I went from memory and then got the screenshots. Forgive me for being inaccurate, there's been a few rough races and I can't remember everything. Really racking my brain for how to make 2021 worth competing in.

Motorsport Manager - Espirit's year of the year 2019

Hey guys, I'm back with more on my Motorsport Manager career.

Entering 2019 I set my expectations low, spent lots, and painted the car black. There was no guarantee that we were going to have a good season. I think that my expectations of 2018 were high and I disappointed myself that year. So entering 2019 I set the bar low and set the goal low too. As long as we finished 9th or higher in the constructors championship we were fine.

We started off very well with both cars competitive. Then slowly over the next few races we fell backwards. Then we started picking up points again as we developed new parts. Early in the year Amy McCloud was in the top ten of the championship, but fell down the order by season's end. Johnny Navarro was a steady hand for the team and kept scoring well enough. He ended up finishing 9th in the points. Very impressive. I don't think we scored any podiums, but we didn't expect to either. We're supposed to be the worst team in pit lane. Our only strong points are our staff and pit crew. Amy finished 16th in the championship, and I was a little disappointed. I think that she's a good driver who should be doing as well as Johnny but I've screwed up the strategy and lost her some good results. Track position is key, and pitting early has been a mistake for me.

Johnny won driver of the year in 2019, and I won manager of the year. The only rule changes for 2020 are longer races, with 21 laps on average. It's going to be a really tough season, and I think that we're starting off on the backfoot. I get too excited and press the continue button during the off-season and blaze through those three months without thinking. So I think that our reliability and performance has been significantly hampered by my lack of foresight and even lack of experience. I went through this entering 2019 and we were pretty unreliable until about five races in. Hard to say what 2020 will be like.

I've been using my list of setups and it has been helpful only in terms of having an idea of what's good, but not what's great. Once you have a setup, you need to fine tune it to make it excellent and that means swinging downforce, handling, and speed in both directions until you get near 100%. Sometimes you need every session to get it right, even entering the race with an untested setup in the hope that it's better than what you've run before. Hopefully I don't get fired this season. The chairman was happy all year in 2019, even though we were bleeding money in the second half. Contract negotiations are costing me an arm and a leg.

See Ya!

Just a fun time

 

Hey I'd really appreciate it if you watched this video for a bit. Just have a look and if it's not your kinda thing then that's cool. I enjoyed recording it and hopefully it makes for good watching. Sorry about the quality. If you really want, I can post a HD version for your viewing pleasure. 

Cheers :)

Returning to Minecraft

 Hey guys,

I just did a blog post talking about the upcoming Minecraft series on SAIM Industries on the respective blog, but I have a few things to say here.

I haven't played Minecraft since the 31st of December 2018, and so I want to go into the game as fresh as possible. I know that there was a new update called Caves and Cliffs or whatever, but I don't want to know anything about what it includes. I know there are lots of new blocks, items, and mobs, so I'm excited about being very upset with what the game has become, but at the end of the day I just cannot wait to play on a server with my buddies Akirasora and Ihasnotomato. 

Not only has it been a few years since I last played Minecraft in any capacity, I haven't played survival mode seriously and built anything since the start of my Mine Craft Building Stuff: Colossal Conclusion series when I played survival in it. That was 7 years ago!

So it's going to be awesome and it can't come quickly enough!

See Ya!

Motorsport Manager - My time at Espirit GP so far

 Hello,

So continuing my story so far, I joined Espirit at the end of 2017, and after one race I fired Fournier because her hotheadedness was impeding my chances of keeping my job. I promoted the reserve driver Amy McCloud into Fournier's seat. We finished 10th in the constructors championship as expected, and the chairman was happy with that. What I didn't know was that we could lose our place in the World Motorsport Championship (WMC) by finishing 10th. The champion team of the Asia-Pacific Championship (APC) is invited to join the top tier, but they declined and so I realised that I had to finish higher than 10th to stay in WMC.

I spent $52 million on the 2018 car, but we struggled at first. Johnny Navarro scored an 8th place finish in a wet race, so we looked pretty good for a few races when realistically we were struggling to consistently finish in the top 15. Both Navarro and McCloud suffered neck injuries during the season, so for five races I ran the reserve driver Ellie Marsh, who was really popular but awful on tyres. Sometimes even if she wasn't in the event, fans would act as though she was the one to beat. The only points finish for most of the season was Navarro's 8th place. In the mid-to-late part of the season, my bank balance ran into the negatives by a few hundred thousand, so I didn't design and build any new parts for the cars. I had to concentrate a little more on the races because I knew that our cars were capable of scoring points, I just didn't know how to do it and still don't. Then, with a handful of races to go, we scored some points. Johnny is my best driver and so I'd been putting the best parts into his car. When he crashed on lap one I felt like the race was ruined. By the late point in the season, my typical strategy was to run Johnny flat out until he had a delta of 1 lap less fuel than he needed to finish the race, and then run him on normal engine power and mediate the tyre temperatures for the rest of the race, pitting when the tyres got to half way or if he was in good track position run him until they were at 30% or the rain was coming. McCloud's strategy was to run her at push or attack and with normal engine power with one lap less fuel so that she had a weight advantage and could therefore run at slightly faster lap times. I also ran her with one level harder compound tyres. So Johnny crashes, then we're under safety car after another driver crashes and then the race continues, I decide to hang on with McCloud and we get to the end of the race and finish 9th. It was a huge relief. I'd agonised over whether to pit her or not and decided that I would finish a few seconds or positions down if I pitted and that I would have a better chance of points if I kept her out for the rest of the race. After that we were 8th in the constructors championship, on target with our set goal.

Then came the final race of the year at Dubai. The last three races of the year I had access to my old setups from the previous year, so I had a good advantage with setup direction. Our cars were set up well for Dubai, but in the race Johnny was shocking. He couldn't get past many people and stayed in the back of the field, while McCloud hung on to finish 12th. I was pretty happy with that, and then I saw the constructors championship leaderboard and learned that I'd been knocked to 9th by Velan Racing. Grrr... So now I was familiar with the way the game worked and knew that my time at Espirit was at an end. I'd failed to achieve the objective, and the Chairwoman was not very happy with me. Now I'm at the first round of the 2019 championship and she still hasn't fired me, so I'm pretty sure I'm on thin ice. The 2019 car cost about $42 million, but the car is better than last year's so maybe we're in a better position. I'm not optimistic, but I am confident that we have some great setups sorted for the new year. I think I should also focus hard on making the best engine that I can. Speed let us down too often I feel. We didn't build a gearbox in 2018, so the full goal for 2019 in my eyes is to build things that make the car go fast.

Anyway my water is boiling.

Motorsport Manager - My experience so far

 Hey guys,

So I've recently bought Motorsport Manager and have been enjoying it a lot. Once I worked out how to play it, I started turning out more hours and getting further into the game. Here's my story.

I started with a European Racing Series deal with Octane Racing where I secured podiums with the two drivers that you start with, Marchetta and Dreyfuss. The first season was rough at first because I didn't know what I was doing, but then in the second half I scored two podiums with Dreyfuss. I got one with Marchetta in the first race. I finished 6th in the teams championship, on target with the goal that I set myself.

Then in the second season the car was very unreliable. Finishing a race was an achievement, let alone scoring good results. But the podium wasn't a realistic goal. So I dumped Mary, the designer, and signed Theo Hornton (I think that's his name) and then we started getting more performance and reliability. We started shining in practice and led races again, but still couldn't get those strong finishes. Then Dreyfuss got a hurt neck, so I subbed in Adrian Earle, who started on pole position in the three races that he ran and was very competitive. Then Dreyfuss came back with one week left on her neck and so I moved Earle into Marchetta's inferior car. I was putting the better performance and reliability parts in Dreyfuss' car because she was a better driver. Earle was faster, but Dreyfuss was overall better and got the better results. Earle scored pole position twice in Marchetta's car because he got a hurt neck.

Then I got issued an ultimatum by the chairman, score 10th or better in the next race or I'm fired. That race was very anxiety-inducing, but I still tuned the fastest two cars in practice and both cars started in the top five in qualifying. Dreyfuss led the first stint from 5th and was a sure shot at the race win in intermediate tyres. Marchetta fell off the track on soft tyres. That was my mistake. It was wet and I didn't realise he was on softs. So from the outset we were running with one driver who had a shot, but still you don't give up until the last sector of the last lap. The big blunder that I made was not realising that there was a blip where the track dried for a lap and a half and then got so wet that we needed the wet tyres. So I'd brought Dreyfuss in for softs, run her up the front with them, and then put her on inters when it got wet again. Again it was a massive mistake. I should have invested in better weather predictions, but I wasn't going to gamble money or a race win away just because the track was changing conditions. I was going to change with it and follow the conditions because I couldn't see far ahead to the very wet track in a few laps time. Dreyfuss finished the race in inters, while Marchetta pitted for wets and ended up passing her in a car with an engine that was at 20% reliability, at neutral performance, and Marchetta at neutral aggression. Dreyfuss was running in overtake and attack, but the inters were useless until the last lap but even with 20 seconds better pace she couldn't pass anyone to get into the top ten and secure my job for the next race, so I was fired.

That was pretty frustrating, but then I saw that you could keep playing and so I sent applications to teams in all three levels: ERS, World Championship, and Endurance. The first and third choices were for better teams than what I could realistically expect to run, but the World Championship team Espirit signed me. They are dead last and it's their first year. I've set the target of 10th for the constructors championship because I don't know what I'm doing and there's two races left. I will also focus on keeping the non-hothead drivers because I don't need a pain in the arse challenging my future with the team. I haven't run my first round with them yet, but I'm about to. I will also write down the setups that I use because I want to make this stint with Espirit work.

Hopefully all goes well.

See Ya!

First Quarter Report

Hey guys,

So I didn't do a review thing for the SuperLite video, and that's because I get lost in my own head and have had a lot of things to do in a creative sense. 

But yes I did get the 2021 predictions video done as well as the SuperLite video, so I'm happy with Supercars Mabeanie for the time being. I do intend to make some more Supercars videos later this year, but not theory videos. I'm going to do simpler, fun videos that may end up being harder to make than coming up with theories or expanding on ones that I already have. 

Anyway, I have also been doing a fair few Friday Night Funs on Mabeanie Games and I've been enjoying that a lot, especially with my recent one on Game Dev Tycoon. I intentionally missed last Friday and will miss this Friday because I want to work on other projects and just finish lots of things off before I start more things. 

Mainly I've been working on Mab and Tom for Mabeanie Talks. This week I've cut up the 2019 recording and separated all of the different moments into 5-10 minute episodes and also cutting out anything that's a bit boring. So that's got me excited to start work on the 2021 recording, which will be very different because it was done in person and also because I filmed it with my video camera, so you will get a silhouette of what I look like, but mainly the dark room with the big window in which we recorded. I will also carry over the renewed format and adapt it with the differences of the 2021 session in mind.

This year start off really exciting and then sharply declined from mid-January until the last week or so. The recent upturn is largely because I've been pushing hard to make sure that I'm happy. A big part of that is writing a to-do list with priorities and back-burner ideas. It's made a big difference to how I've been feeling lately, which has also cleared my mind and is possibly the reason for me coming up with more ideas for fun projects in the future.

So yeah that's the update.

See Ya!

Supercars - SuperLite entry

New Year, New Goals

Hey welcome to 2021,

2020 was a pretty crummy year for me. Personally, on YouTube, and in almost every way really. I haven't got around to going through the YouTube data yet because I've been working on some Supercars stuff. It's not a video, at least not yet! But it might not go on YouTube. I'm just recording footage from the website and also from the Supercars YouTube channel.Anyway, I'm back to work tomorrow, so who knows how things are going to pan out. I'm planning better. I'm going to be more focused on making comics, games, and YouTube videos than I was last year. Here's how:

1. Comics

I'm going to focus on each character in Hale Kane #18 and beyond, drawing scenes that are relevant to each character and make it so that the world of Hale Kane feels dynamic and fleshed out. This means that I will be able to put #18 together better and will actually enjoy making the thing. It will probably end up piecing #19 and #20 together in process, too. My goal for 2021 is to make all three comics, then I will commission artists to draw pictures of KJ. That was my idea for a reward a while back, and I'm still kinda interested to going with it.

2. Games

I had to rush to finish my goal at the end of 2020. I made three games in one day, and they were pretty disappointing, especially as I tried to go outside the confines of the guide book that I was using. The goal this year, like with Hale Kane, is to go bigger and better. I will try to make 15 games, they will have more purpose, be designed better, and will hopefully make it easier for me to learn how to program just by doing it. 

3. YouTube videos

So I have 5 different channels and all of them posted something in 2020. Let's start with Supercars Mabeanie. 

I did not post or even make the SuperLite video. So that will be my first goal for YouTube as far as my personal channels are concerned. I also want to do some sort of series that will allow me to make more Supercars videos for a bit. I'm thinking spotlight videos on certain drivers. I've also done some thinking about how to make my Supercars videos better so that people watch them longer. I have already come up with some ideas on what to do differently.

Mabeanie Games is a bit different. I posted Friday Night Fun, and bits of my separate V8 Supercars championships. For 2021 Friday Night Fun, I am going to have every video have different games. I will not make multiple videos with the same game. I have lots of games that I enjoy, but a small handful that I think make good content and that I specifically prefer to play on a regular basis. I'm not super keen on the Holdens Only and 2001 championships, but I think that they will make good content anyway. I do like to go back to my V8 videos occasionally and watch a whole race. The goal will be do commit and successfully execute the Friday Night Fun plan. It should be pretty easy. Just don't do the same game again.

Mabeanie Talks has a bunch of stuff recorded for more Mab and Tom, but I haven't worked on it in a while. The Christmas video got me a bit pumped for it, so more could come in the first half of this year. Apart from that I'm not fussed. There is also the 10 years anniversary series, but I've done very little since May or something. I have five or six individual years to go through, and there's heaps of content to think about when it comes to reflecting deeply on my YouTube career. Who knows if I'll get it done this year, but really I should get it done to keep it relevant. The goal for Talks will be to finish making and post all of the current Mab and Tom content.

Okay now to my collab channels. SAIM Industries did pretty well. We did manage to make content, and we chose not to get back to IM stuff because I felt that doing AM was of good value for the channel as a whole rather than in terms of views or the amount of videos made. We will probably get back to the IM stuff on Australia Day, as we have done from time to time. Still, there is another session of AM to be edited and another to be recorded, so we have our work cut out for us. As a specific goal, I would like to focus on drawing attention to our 10 years celebrations. I want to do a podcast, order celebratory shirts, hoodies, and hats, do at least one skit, and at least one series with all of us in it.

Pickle-Shaped Peanuts has a tendency to get neglected, but we are looking to be in a position to be performing better than ever in 2021. There is a little bit of V8 Supercars stuff to come out, and after that we may return to Crash Bandicoot, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 4, or start something new. They guys are probably not excited about doing more V8s, but it has been something like two years since we did it so maybe they don't mind. As a specific goal, I want to do two recording sessions, so we should get talking about that soon.

Okay that's everything for now. Shame I didn't get Hale Kane #18 done, but I am taking it very seriously and so I'm being careful with it.

See Ya!