Weekly Update 83

Hold the door! Hold the door! Sorry I’m late! I missed my train last week and couldn’t update you all. But this time I made it! Look at me go. This is where I, Seth Oberlender, update you on my quest to becoming the greatest author in the world! If not that, then an author in the world.

So far, I have not gotten an offer of representation which means I am without representation. Still, I persist and scour the Earth for an agent.

I have not been writing as much as I should. I blame myself, and Valve. Valve is a gaming company known for games like Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress, and DOTA 2. Oh, and they are responsible for the largest online gaming store front; Steam (get it? Valve released Steam?). They just “released” a new game called Deadlock and it is so, so fun.

It is a MOBA (multiplayer online battler arena) like DOTA or League of Legends, but this one is a third person shooter instead of a top down point and click traditional MOBA. I can’t stop playing it, and it isn’t even out yet.

The game is in “early development” but Valve still lets people playtest it, and it could be anyone. They started by releasing random invites to playtest the game on Steam and the cool part is if you have it, you can invite your friends to play. I asked someone online to invite me and now I am in the cool club that gets to play the game. To out the situation best I will steal from a comment I saw on Reddit: Deadlock is a sketch on a canvas that will turn into a painting. And that sketch its really good. Good enough to be a full game. It has voice acting, balancing, and a surprising number of characters. I am so glad I get to play it, and I can’t wait for the game to release completely some time in the next… future.

Ok, time to get back to Deadlock. See you next week!