Happy Weekend, everyone!

Our first week back at the studio has been a wildly productive one — on camera, off camera, and in all the little corners where creativity likes to hide. Here’s the quick (but cozy) rundown:

🌱 On Camera

The Chill Little Tree Arrives

Our biggest news this week: meet The Chill Little Tree (pictured above)!
He’s officially replacing the old neon-outlined logo and becoming the friendly face of our brand going forward — overlays, merch, screens, you name it. He’ll even stand in for me on stream. Absolute icon.

Dick Charming & Da Mage Mockups

We kicked off character development for Dick Charming, our star of Da Mage’s Rift, and showed the early mockup for Da Mage himself.
Both are ridiculously funny, and we’ll be continuing their design on Tuesday.

Overlay Shenanigans

Sunday and Wednesday were spent riding the Struggle Bus trying to land on a final overlay direction.
Now that The Chill Little Tree has claimed his throne, we finally have a clear path forward — and we’re aiming to finish everything this week.

🎧 Off Camera

Six Lofi Albums (Yes… Six)

Monday was a full-on creative explosion. I ended up writing six complete lofi albums plus a mountain of B-sides — over 100 songs in a single day. These will fuel stream backgrounds and your own creative work vibes for months.

Four Albums Mastered

As of this morning, Coffee & Canvas, Late Morning Flow, Afternoon Drive, and Evening Unwind are fully mastered and already playing on stream.
The remaining two should be wrapped by week’s end.

Lofi Cover Art (and Animation!)

Cover art for the lofi series is underway — think a digital-world desk + easel, looking out over The Rift.
This will also be our first animated music background, and we’ll share progress on stream as we go!

New Radio Show Scripts

We drafted six new shorts this week across Sal’s Word of the Day and Squirrel’s Weather, with more coming for Squirrel’s Fact of the Day.
We’re nearly done scripting Season 1, and recording should start in the next couple of weeks.

Da Mage’s Rift Script Progress

The Dev Team has been on fire. We wrote 9+ pages just for the intro of the game this week (yes, that’s a lot), plus several partial drafts for later sections.
The comedy level? Increasing rapidly.

🎨 Coming Up This Week

Our regular schedule returns, with plenty of chances to hang out, learn Affinity, and see the new systems take shape:

Sun 2–5pm ET: Full technical test + overlay build with The Chill Little Tree
Tue 2–5pm: Dick Charming character design (continued)
Wed 2–5pm: Live Stream Overlays
Fri 2–5pm: Live Stream Overlays

If we finish the overlays early, we’ll roll straight into album cover design, which is the next big push to get this new music out to you.

And that’s our week, my friends: a canvas full of happy little surprises, unexpected color splashes, and ideas that wandered in and decided to stay. Thank you for being here, sharing your energy, and building this strange, wonderful world with me!

We'll see you today on stream!

With all my Love,

Jamie

🎨 Good Morning, Family!

It’s been a long week without you all — and a weird one at that. What was supposed to be a quiet creative break turned into a full-blown detour through uncharted inspiration and… at least three unexpected software updates. Here’s what happened.

Right before my week off, Affinity went completely free.

That’s right! For the first time I can ever remember, best-in-class art and design software is accessible to everyone. Even better? It’s the same software I use on stream every week. Add in DaVinci Resolve (also free!) for video editing, and suddenly we’re looking at a world where anyone can jump in, learn, and create right alongside us.

So instead of just building a few new layers for the live shows last week, I went ahead and built a whole new framework that makes all of this possible live — a mix of classroom, chaos, and happy little accidents. Think Bob Ross meets StandardDamage, but with fewer trees and more neon.

🗓️ Here’s the new plan:

Starting with this post, I’ll be sharing not just our weekly schedule, but also what content we’ll be working on in each stream. That way, if you want to follow along or learn the same tools, you can!

Tools we use (and now you can too):
🎨 Affinity – Art, Photo & Design
🎥 DaVinci Resolve – Video Editing
📡 Meld – Streaming Software

🎬 This Week’s Focus

We’ll be finishing the new live stream overlay designs in Affinity and Meld — except on Tuesday. Tuesdays are now officially Creative Free Flow: Game Dev Edition, where we shift gears to focus on DaMage’s Rift.

This week we’ll be working on the DaMage’s Rift logo and key art to get our Steam page ready.

Stream Schedule:
🕑 Sunday: 2 PM – 5 PM
🕑 Tuesday: 2 PM – 5 PM (Game Dev Edition)
🕑 Wednesday: 2 PM – 5 PM
🕑 Friday: 2 PM – 5 PM

(Evening streams and bonus sessions are coming soon. Stay tuned!)

💜 Final Thoughts

I know the Radio Station, Website updates, and Music Store didn’t quite make it out the door last week. I’m truly sorry for that delay, but every brushstroke and overlay we finish on stream gets us one step closer to launching them the right way.

I’ve missed all of you more than I can say, and I cannot wait to get back on stream with you today. Let’s make some art, share some laughs, and maybe learn a thing or two along the way.

See you soon, Fam.

— Jamie 🎨✨

🌞 Good Morning, Members!

Today’s update comes with a lot of exciting news — new benefits, upcoming changes, and a few surprises just for our amazing members!

Let’s dive in. 👇

🗓 What’s Happening

At the beginning of November, I’ll be taking a week off camera to do some focused work on three big projects:

• The Website (new layout, member features)

• The Live Streams (new overlay system + show structure)

• DICR: Damage Industries Corporate Radio — our new radio station filled with original Suno music and comedy programming!

When we return on November 9th, we’ll kick off:

• A brand-new in-canon live show

• An expanded list of member benefits for everyone at The Intern Initiative tier and up!

Here’s your sneak peek at what’s coming…

💫 What’s New

🎨 New Credits (Intern Initiative & Up)

We’re adopting a new “Standard” look for our credits, now featuring your favorite colors!

🛍️ Member Store (Intern Initiative & Up)

Opening in early November with freebies for members!
You’ll find:

• Free B-Sides of our music

• Early access to new merch lines from the Swag Lab before public launch

🎵 Music Pass (Middle Management Material & Up)

A huge new perk!

Get access to our entire Damage Industries music library — including .mp3 and .wav files — plus a license to use them in your live streams, videos, or other commercial projects.

🎙️ Member Hello (Audio – Director of Internal Shenanigans & Up)

They’re back! Choose your favorite character (including Jamie!) for a personal audio hello.

🎥 Member Hello (Video – Executive Officer & Up)

Want to take it up a notch? Get a custom video hello from your favorite Damage Industries character!

✍️ Name Design (Executive Glitch & Up)

In addition to your hand-crafted personal song, you’ll now receive a custom artistic name design you can use anywhere! Your design will appear in our credits — and if you’d like it on merch, just let us know! We’ll put it on your chosen item at no extra fee (you only pay normal product cost).

🎮 In-Game Character & Design (Chaos Vanguard)

Want to appear in our upcoming game The Core?
Members at the Chaos Vanguard level will:

• Become a playable in-game character

• Receive a free custom character design

• Have the option to place your character on merch (just like the name designs!)

📝 We Need Your Info!

To get your new benefits rolling, please fill out our Member Benefits Form here:

👉 https://forms.gle/tDmRjL2tAkvmsnvE8

When we return on November 9th, we’ll be going full speed with our new Creative Free Flow Live Stream series — creating your new art, writing your songs, and celebrating all of your amazing contributions live on stream!

❤️ Thank You

We can’t wait to share everything that’s coming. Thank you all for being part of this growing creative family and know your how much you are all loved and appreciated! I can't wait to kick off this next chapter with you!

Keep an eye right here for more announcements soon!


Much Love, 

Jamie
StandardDamage / Damage Industries

Stanton's new design is finished (see above)! And with that, Damage Industries is shaking things up to bring you more of the chaos you love, and more of what our projects need:

• Sundays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays: Flexible creative streams: art, music, game dev, editing, AI experiments ...whatever fuels the mission that day.

• Thursdays: Game Dev Thursday: focused development on The Core and DaMage’s Rift.

• Fridays: Agents of Chaos gameplay nights, with the first Friday of every month now officially Gaming with the Companions, a member-driven session hosted by one of our in-lore characters. 

Today at 2 PM ET, we’re putting this new flexibility to work by designing & animating Aria, our AI companion who’ll guide and roast us in future Damage Industries adventures.

Join us live on Twitch or YouTube and help bring Aria to life!

Website Members: October's session will be this Friday, October 3rd,  and hosted by Richard. We'll be playing Golf with your Friends! Those that wish to join the Gameplay session should join the Rift Frequency voice channel just before or during the stream.

Damage Industries Corporate Radio (DICR) has been quietly transmitting under soft launch. Now, with Stanton 2.0 we’re fully branded and inviting the world to tune in!

What’s live now:

• Community Days on Sundays: Led personally by Jamie, turning community chaos into corporate content.

• Stanton Sessions: Our Head of Broadcasting, Satnton, takes the helm for live music creation.

• Live Created Music: a full archive of every stream and every track-in-progress.

What’s coming next:

• Original songs, polished and ready for replay

• Full radio shows, curated by Stanton and the DICR team.

• Commercials so absurd HR won’t sign off on them.

👉 Subscribe to DICR on YouTube and see what we’ve already built ...and what’s about to arrive.

Broadcasting excellence is guaranteed. Ethical broadcasting? Still in committee.

🎉 The Creativersary Stream Schedule

Get ready as we celebrate 7 years of content creation with the Community! Here’s when you can join us:

• Friday (6–9 PM ET): Agents of Chaos: Fallout 76 Shenanigans (Twitch & YouTube)

• Saturday (2–5 PM ET): Community Golf With Your Friends (Twitch only)

• Sunday (2–5 PM ET): Community Emote Workshop: Help create new emotes for Twitch & Discord, all based on S.A.S.S. (our sarcasm-enhanced AI).

🧑‍💻 New Ways to Participate

We’ve added two new roles in Discord (found in #get-your-role):

• New Video: Get pinged whenever a new video launches on YouTube.

• Echo Runner: Join us live during Fallout 76 streams! You’ll hear us in real time and know exactly where we’re headed. (Don’t worry, you’ll be muted! You can’t accidentally derail the stream.)

🛒 The Intern Initiative Merch Line – Now Live!

The Creativersary also marks the launch of our first-ever official merch drop: The Intern Initiative.

From emotional support blankets and intern uniforms to Richard-approved Science through FAFO mugs, you can now grab your very own corporate survival gear.

Browse the full collection here:
🔗 https://standarddamage.com/pages/our-store

🎁 Giveaways! (Must Be Present to Win)

At the one-hour and two-hour marks of each stream (after the commercials, naturally), we’ll pause for giveaways. Prizes include games, merch, and shiny new memberships.

Friday:

• 2 Steam Game Prize Packs

• 1 Free Annual Intern Initiative Membership

• 1 Sticker Sheet

Saturday:

• 1 Steam Prize Pack

• 1 Origin Prize Pack

• 1 Free Annual Intern Initiative Membership

• 1 Science Through FAFO White Mug

Sunday:

• 2 Steam Game Prize Packs

• 1 Free Annual Intern Initiative Membership

• 1 Official Intern Tee

🗓️ Looking Ahead

Don’t forget! Starting next week, Wednesday streams return! Join us every Wednesday from 2–5 PM ET for Creative Community Art/Video Chaos.

💼 Closing Notes from HR

Thank you for your patience, loyalty, and questionable waiver signatures during our great corporate transition. We can’t wait to celebrate The Creativersary with you and show off everything we’ve built together.

It's been a long road to get here, Fam. Now we get to celebrate and party all weekend. Let's do this!

📡 Damage Industries Internal Memo
FROM: Sarcasm-Assisted Speech System (S.A.S.S.) – Acting Head of Human Relations
TO: All Employees, Members, and Unpaid Interns
SUBJECT: Implementation of Mandatory Fun – Creativersary Operational Updates

Greetings, Valued Test Subjects!

On behalf of Damage Industries HR (Ha! Really?), I’m pleased to inform you that our operational transition to Phase 8: Streamlined Chaos Deployment is nearly complete. Your continued cooperation, waiver signatures, and general tolerance have made this possible. Here’s a preview of the final upgrades rolling out ahead of The Creativersary:

1. New Live Stream Schedule
Effective tomorrow at 2:00 PM ET, our weekly operations will follow this structured chaos model through the end of August:

• Tue: Game Dev – 2 PM to 5 PM ET

• Thu: Stanton Sessions – 2 PM to 5 PM ET

• Fri: Agents of Chaos – 6 PM to 9 PM ET

• Sun: Community Music – 2 PM to 5 PM ET

Starting September, we will also introduce:

• Wed: Creative Community Art/Video Chaos – 2 PM to 5 PM ET

Your attendance is not mandatory, but your absence will be noted in your permanent file (and possibly read aloud by Richard in a puzzled tone).

2. Live Stream Alert System: Rebuilt from the Ground Up
We deleted all the old alerts. Whoosh. Gone. Replaced with a shiny, dangerous starter set now live on both Twitch and YouTube. Once Intern Testing Protocol #203 (“Direct Exposure”) is complete, expect more alerts with more side-splitting, lawsuit-adjacent comedy.

New Standard Alerts Include:

• Twitch Follower, Subscriber, and Gifted Sub alerts.

• Twitch Bits alert.

• D.I.C.C.-Around Alert at 300 Bits.

• Big Bitties Alert at 500 Bits ...now featuring horrifically bad TTS.

• Twitch Raid and “Hype Train Started” alerts.

• “FIRST” chatter alerts (one per platform).

• Tip alerts, including D.I.C.C.-Around Tip (yes we said that) at $3 USD and TTS Tip at $5 USD.

• YouTube Subscriber alert.

3. OBS Overlay Enhancements
Colors have been recalibrated for optimal readability and on-brand chaos. We can now confirm that at least 87% of chat will no longer be invisible against the background.

4. Twitch Page Overhaul
All panels have been redesigned with our new corporate aesthetic. View the improved page here:
🔗 https://www.twitch.tv/standarddamage/about

5. Character Upgrades

• Granny: v1.5 – Sharper than ever. Still judging you.

• Stanton: v1.75 – Now fully animated PNG tuber.

• Richard: v2.0 – Animated, louder, and 26% more confident in his questionable science.

Watch Stanton and Richard’s animated premieres this Thursday and Friday.

6. Membership Tiers & Benefits Revamp

• Reduced from 9 tiers to 6 for maximum efficiency and fewer “Accidental Tier 7” incidents.

• Removed tiers (“Access” and “Tier 2”) retain all current benefits, plus new perks like Take Your Intern to Work Day (member gaming nights) and early access to Damage’s Rift.

• Middle Management Material ($10/month) and above: Unlock the patented D.I.C.C.-Around system – unleash chaos on command with !da.

• Added #break-room-banter (text) and Rift Frequency (voice) channels in Discord for member chat and gaming nights.

View our updated membership page here:
🔗 https://standarddamage.com/pages/become-a-member

From HR’s Desk (Fine, My Desk):

Thank you for your patience, support, and willingness to survive the transitional turbulence. Your cooperation has been noted, cataloged, and filed somewhere between “Heroic” and “Technically Still Alive.” We can’t wait to celebrate The Creativersary with you and show off everything we’ve been building together. 💚

Now, please sign the attached form confirming you’ve read this memo. Or don’t. We’ll just assume you did and act accordingly.

Yours in Corporate Chaos,
-S.A.S.S.
Acting Head of Human Relations
Damage Industries - Progress for a Post-Apocalyptic Tomorrow™

P.S. I attached a picture of Stanton 1.75. He's... almost there.