Remember how a month ago, in our last news post, we said we'd have news to share with you all about new music soon? Here it is! Vast Error Vol. 6 is out NOW! 25 new tracks from our talented music team, each with illustrated track art from our fantastic track art team! The cover, as seen above, was done by @Polukhina! She volunteered for the daunting task of cover art, and we think she knocked it out of the ball park. That can be said of everyone who contributed! Thank you to everyone on the team who worked so hard to bring this to life!
How’s it going everyone? It’s been a bit since we’ve last spoken! I know we’ve been silent for a bit, but we are here now to discuss with you what’s been going on behind the scenes of Vast Error!
RE: THE COMIC
Progress on Vast Error is steady-going! We’ve been working throughout the year to create a solid backlog of comic to begin releasing once we’re ready! We’re wrapping up our first backlogged section, continuing to progress on our second section, and in the pre-planning stages of our third section! For your patience, please enjoy a non-spoilerly panel of a future update!
Vast Error will return in 2026. That’s a promise.
RE: MURRIT DATING SIM
Progress has also been slow but steady on our next visual novel, tentatively titled the “Murrit Dating Sim!” We are still in the process of writing all the ways you can date Murrit, but like any good probability, it will still take some more time for it to come to fruition. We are still so grateful for your support during our 2024 charity stream, so we want to create the best reward possible to the community for their generosity.
RE: THE MERCH STORE
We have made the hard decision to close our merchandise store for the time being. We know how much this community has enjoyed the merch we’ve produced thanks to our collective of talented artists. As such, this decision was not made lightly. However, I must iterate: 1) Any orders placed before October 26th, 2025 will be fulfilled - that is our guarantee. We simply ask for your patience as we distribute our remaining unfulfilled orders. 2) The merch store will return eventually. We are currently in discussion with potential partners to help us bring to you all new and exciting merch. Stay tuned!
That being said, if you are interested in the Thaumatrope: Syzygy Commentary PDF, where Thaumatrope creator Xamag showcases the behind-the-scenes of the first portion of the comic, it has been made available for purchase on our itch.io store!
RE: FRAF
DCRC has partnered with the Fruity Rumpus Asshole Factory! If you’re unaware, FRAF is a collection of Homestuck fan creators who have become officially licensed under the Homestuck umbrella! You may recall us receiving our own license by Andrew Hussie some time ago - This is the next step! As we’ve partnered with them, we have our own subforum for VE and its additional works on the FRAF forums, which you can find here! Consider joining, as 1) it’s another lovely place for everyone to interact with the community and the communities of other fan works, and 2) VE co-creator Austinado has an open Q&A post over there! Whatever silly questions you have for them, better ask them while you can!
RE: VAST ERROR MUSIC
Our last piece of news for today is we are in the midst of producing a new Vast Error album! You will be hearing more about it soon, but what I can let you know right now is that it will be out by the end of the year. If your ears simply can’t wait to hear what our musicians are cooking, well, we’d like to share some sneak peaks to satiate you! Music team member Rainy uploaded a preview of one of his tracks a while back, but here’s a newspost exclusive sneak peak of a track by autumnalEquinox!
Again, we really appreciate everyone’s patience as we continue to work hard and put our all into these projects. If you’re dying to know what’s going on behind-the-scenes, though, my personal recommendation would be to consider joining our Patreon! We’ve been very active there each month. By joining at our $6.12 / month tier, you can join the Vast Error Admins monthly for our Patreon Livestreams, where we show off what we’re working on for the comic. Regardless, we genuinely appreciate any and all the support you, the community, give us. It is a huge motivator. Thanks for reading, and happy holidays!
Posted by Austinado on 3/4/2025.
VAST ERROR IS NOW CANCELLED.
Now that I have your attention, Vast Error isn't ACTUALLY cancelled. The headline really got you going for a second there though, right?
There is, however, about to be a major shake-up on the VE front from today onward. So stop running around while screaming in distress like you're paid by the decibel and listen up!
Today, I am stepping down as Vast Error's creative director and head writer.
For some of you, this probably sounds like earth-shattering, heart-breaking news, so let me field some questions before you all get carried away:
WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?
There's no major reason! Well, okay. There is, but it's not some treasure trove of internal drama, anger, regret or fallout. I just personally feel like I've hit a majority of the points I've wanted to with the comics development as its co-creator.
But how? VE is doing better than ever! Last year we got accepted into the HICU, we raised $8.5k+ for charity, we've got some strong plot beats that are finally getting hit after years of build up; it's going great! You'd think ambition would continue to skyrocket!
And it was all very exciting! But for me, reaching those milestones made me feel content with halting the grind. In the months after, I could feel the infernal machine that made me eat, breathe and sleep VE finally start winding down. I learned so many skills and evolved so much as a creator, a director of many hats, a storyteller and even an artist! I'm ready to put those skills to work in a different environment.
It was a tough call, because I haven't outgrown or even fallen out of love with VE! I just feel like it's finally time for me to spread my wings, get out of Bart's shadow, and focus more on DCRC as an independent comics platform like with the upcoming reveal of PROJECT JUMP.
WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WITH VAST ERROR?
The comic is going to be put on an short-to-medium pause (resetpause?) while we all take a breather and do some internal restructuring to work on a new pipeline with a collaborative backlog model for both panels and writing!
Heather is going to be spearheading the charge in my place, with Eddie continuing to work as editor-in-chief, and the team has already begun forming a new writer's room with both strong new additions and people that have contributed with writing in the Vast Error setting before.
Expect more details and other announcements about this soon!
WILL YOU STILL BE INVOLVED WITH VAST ERROR AT ALL?
Me and Heather are still going to handle drafting the rest of the major beats and making sure everything that gets put out fits our vision for the story. In that respect, you could think of me as the story's producer and creative consultant!
I also still intend to do writing for the comic! It'll just be on more of a "when I can" basis. I'm also doing the scenario for the Murrit Dating Sim, and continuing to headline the A3A1 Walkaround since it's already so deep into production!
Otherwise, I'm mostly going to take a backseat to what Heather and the rest of the team feel right to do with our outlines.
WILL ANYTHING ELSE BE AFFECTED?
Not really! This comic is, and always has been, a volunteer passion project. It's going to stay that way moving forward.
Making VE has been one of the most fulfilling experiences I've ever had. I cannot express just how grateful I am for all of the hours I've spent and working together with people I love in order to create a story that has, for all intents and purposes, made fan project history.
VE has never just been me, though. Even though I sat in the director's chair and made the final calls, I did the easy part. It was always the countless hours of dedication from our team that allowed a project that Heather and I cultivated as dorky teenagers to become something far greater than we could have possibly imagined.
DCRC and all of the opportunities I've been given literally would not exist without VE. I can't wait to see where it goes in the future, and I hope you all are excited to see where that future goes too.
It's scary diving into the unknown, but it's always better to take a chance at greatness than to never move at all.
Thank you all for everything you've given me for the last 14 years of my life.
Have one last Simpsons, for the road.
- Austin Van Landingham
Posted by Austinado on 12/4/2024.
Live from my desk in a pair of Homer Simpson donut pants, it's DCRC News at 12:00pm! Or whenever this is posted in your timezone. Time is fake! Who cares!
Starting off our day of review, a new VEMT release dropped late last month!
This is the first collab project for the music team that I didn't personally help direct, instead a lot of it was helmed by our site producer ValantWynn! She was the one who had the genius idea to make an album focused on the events of Act 3 Act 1, and I think it came out just as great as everything else we've ever done. This album also works as a feature for several new members of the VEMT, so go give them some love! You can always listen on the VE Bandcamp as per usual, but we're also hosting this album on the DCRC Youtube as an alternative!
We used to have a VEMT Youtube channel a few years ago, but for several baffling reasons, it's completely inaccessible now. So we're just going to work on mirroring all the albums there instead! I'd like to drop them in order when we have all of the current discography in video format, so look forward to that!
Now for our TOP STORY.
DCRC is now the publisher for an upcoming Rhythm-RPG called CHORDIOID! It's made by one of our long time collaborators Ash Taylor, and has contributions by a few other members of our crew too. We've already dipped our toes into making video games with Snowbound Blood, but this is the first time we're helping another group of people get their production out the door.
CHORDIOID has a demo that's going to be dropping on 12/16/24 and you can watch the announcement trailer for it above! It'll be on Steam and Itch, and we'll be sure to post about it more on our socials as those dates draw near. CHORDIOID will be joining the DCRC core line-up for the sites major revamp in the near future, and you'll be able to see more of it then! For now though, check out the CHORDSITE for more details!
And on the lighter side, we have behind-the-scenes streams happening every month over on our Patreon for $6.44 and up patrons!
Seeing new material early for VE used to be a rare sight, but now you can watch panels get made in REAL TIME with REAL COMMENTARY by REAL TEAM MEMBERS like Sparaze and Tyson and usually anyone else that's not me! But if you listen real carefully, you might hear me do something stupid in the background.
That's it for DCRC News! Tune in next time for when we finally get around to posting that QNA WITH ANDREW HUSSIE from the 13th Anniversary Stream!
Until then: Keep it unreal!
Posted by Austinado on 11/12/2024.
Things are still trucking along over here at DCRC! We've had a far busier year than expected, which means no downtime to release extra goodies for Hollownull or anything else. But we've been developing several projects in the background, and as 2025 rears its ugly head, there's looking to be a lot that's going to change around these parts.
For now though, Tazjec's scene selection is underway! And over the next week or two after writing this, we're planning on sending down a couple non-update drops for you.
Also, the high-quality rippers over at SiIvaGunner just released the TWELVE BY TWELVE FUSION COLLAB over on their Youtube channel. Give that some love.
