I've been gone and mostly irrelevant for a long time. I've not been without projects and progress, but I have often found motivation hard to come by. It's been a decade since VG Exiles Episode 3 dropped and I'd be surprised if very many people still bother to remember any of it. Or me.

The last several years in particular have been a long road of trauma and recovery with VGE4 stuck in development hell the whole time.

...but no longer. I've been grinding it like a maniac and now VGE4 is mere days away from completion. I'm just waiting to receive, drop in, and work with a few assets before stitching the final together. I'd like to release it here on Newgounds (as well as update the previous episodes with their brand-new hi-def .mp4 equivalents), but I'm not sure how squicky Newgrounds still is regarding copyrighted music. Also not sure how squicky it is to advertise a YouTube channel here, either. But, hey, I've been a paying Newgrounds supporter for years.

So, if someone in admin wants to clue me in on current trends, I'd be more than happy to update the film history accordingly.

I've created a new YouTube page called SpriteByte where every previous Exiles episode has been released in freakishly high-quality. The new episode will premiere there as well as be uploaded here if I get a good temperature from admin.

Newgrounds was my first home and I'd like to be able to move some of my stuff back in.

The SpriteByte YouTube Channel

So, yeah... I'm coming back. Maybe temporarily and maybe only where my keys still fit in the door, but I'm coming back.

R1665