We just created our a Mastodon account. If you're not familiar, the Fediverse (a portmanteau of "federated" and "universe") is a decentralized network of interconnected services. There are lots of options out there included Lemmy, Pixelfed, and Peertube among others.

We've just rolled out the beta for our upcoming game Chess Mess. Learn more about the game and its exciting features in this post!

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of my YouTube channel. It’s absolutely wild to think that I’ve been making about two videos a week for a decade.

SOMEWHERE IN MAINE - Heavy Element announces their new Maine-based travel blog "The Vacationlanders."

We had the pleasure of attending a @belfastareachamber After Hours event on Wednesday. This is a monthly gathering of Chamber members for networking and socializing in and around Belfast, Maine.

Last week, Camden Famous featured me on an episode of their podcast! During the episode April and I spoke about what makes our Heavy Element stand out. We were lucky enough to help April and her brand venture into a new mode of telling Midcoast Maine's

SOMEWHERE IN MAINE - Heavy Element is proud to announce that Dudelings: Arcade Sportsball is now available on Android through Google Play and Itch.io! Using Godot Game Engine as our base, we've been able to quickly leverage the power of such an open and powerful engine to port our game to Android and we couldn't be happier with the results!

Maine-based news outlet Bangor Daily News just told the Dudelings story. BDN reporter Sasha Ray and I sat down for a nearly hour-long interview earlier this month and I was impressed by her curiosity and the effortlessness of the conversation. I'm grateful to her and the BDN team for writing such a great article!

Dudelings: Arcade Sportsball just received a major update, codenamed "2nd Base," featuring a massive collection of new content, fixes, and improvements to help you get your sport on. So what's new? Where do we even start?

CAMDEN, MAINE - Independent guide to Midcoast Maine, Camden Famous, launches new weekly podcast. Camden Famous is a collaboration between April Shaw-Beaudoin and her husband Buck. They have been working together for over a decade running their marketing agency. They have taken their skill-set and applied it to the place they live, promoting local businesses and fostering a welcoming community of business owners! We're excited to announce that we produced all twelve episodes of their podcast and we were lucky enough to get an invited to the launch party! We edited, mixed, and mastered each episode of the podcast and we're proud of the work we've done with April and her team. <iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/13IZfz8SUONuqfUGJwcINl?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="152" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe> Make sure you check out the first episode and follow the show on Spotify! And don't miss our episode which drops July 26!

This isn't your dad's Pong... Or his foosball either. Maine's new media production company Heavy Element has released Dudelings: Arcade Sportsball for Steam Deck, Linux, and Windows PC on Steam and Itch.io. This genre-defining "Sportslike" throws players into the high-intensity world of athletics, but without the bumps, bruises, and baseless attacks on late night talk show hosts. Get the ball in the hole. That's what most sports boil down to, right? (We don't know. We're asking.) In this hyper-competitive game, up to two players use the dudelings on the field to jump and hit the ball into the opposing team's goals, hoop, or over the net. Bask in the glory of 16-bit-style victory. Wallow in the sadness of defeat. Or just punch the nearest dudeling to you because slapstick will always be funny. We don't care how you play the game, just as long as you're enjoying it.

I'm so pleased to announce that version 2.0 is now live! This site is the culmination of months of work and I'm so proud to be able to present it to you here! Have a gander and check out the new and improved portfolio section.

Heavy Element is proud to announce that we've joined the Belfast Chamber of Commerce! We're hoping to network with local businesses and help tell their story. We're excited to work closely with the business-oriented folks who make living and working in beautiful Belfast, Maine such a pleasure!

I was recently featured in a YouTube Short produced by the company vidIQ, one of the leading third-party tools for content creators. I was flattered when they reached out and offered to create this short about the channel and my journey to becoming a fully independent creator. They did a pretty good job capturing the broad strokes of my path to founding Heavy Element. Seeing as they necessarily had to leave a bit of the nuance on the cutting room floor (and since September 2023 marks nine years since I started weekly uploads on the channel) I thought now would be a good time to tell the story of this company.