So, E3 begins today, I figured a show based on video games should give an update of it's own. We've had a few setbacks over the last couple of months, which delayed in no small measure a lot of things on the project. By now about two thirds of you will have received your custom brentalfloss song and the rest hopefully will have them by the end of the day.

The good news is a lot of what ailed us in the past is now gone and the progress should start to speed up starting tonight. I'll personally be at E3 all week, while our editor blasts away at full-speed - so if you see me, come say "hi". Very much looking forward to showing you all the work we've been doing and we're hoping to get another trailer up for the show within the week or two.

Looking forward to a brighter few weeks.

- Petros L. Ioannou
Exec. Producer, Leon Films, Ltd

I'll let the teaser trailer speak for itself, thank you so much to all who contributed, but don't forget to Like the video and most importantly, SUBSCRIBE to the new LeonUnity Channel, so you can get the videos right when they come out this summer.

Seriously. Subscribe....

As the title suggests. Filming is complete and we've set our minds to post-production. We've also not forgotten all of you who backed us not so long ago. We owe each and every one of you our heartfelt thanks and to show it, the first set of rewards the "Unique Song from brentalfloss" for all those who contributed $10 or higher, will be sent out to you by the end of the coming week. These should have been sent out sooner, as Brent did finish them a good few weeks ago, but I personally have been focused on getting post-production fully underway before I started editing these. I've been at this for a good few days now but they should be done soon. Expect yours no later than the end of this coming week and if you don't recieve it by then, harass us on facebook. Hope you all enjoy them, and expect a trailer for the show, not too far after.

Hey everyone, it's been a while since I did an update to all this. So we've got some news, there are two things we want to share today.

AUDITIONS for those interested in trying to get a role in the show.

MARTELL TV, an app some collegues of ours are designing that our show will be featured on.

First and foremost, the auditions, here is the casting call and a link to the sides. It includes all the details you'll need to come to the auditions.

SIDES: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2pbL7i6Ne7NYnN3Y19pdUY1T28/edit 

CASTING CALL

Production Title: MY LIFE AS A VIDEO GAME 
Union / Non-Union: Non-Union 
Project length: 7-12 Minute Episodes
 Posted on: Saturday 19th January 2013 
Production location: Los Angeles, CA 
Production Company: Leon Films
Production website: www.mylifeasavideogame.com
Director: Nicholas M. Holmes 
Producer: Petros L. Ioannou
Audition Location:  
3800 Barham Blvd  
5th Floor 
Los Angeles 
CA 90068 
Shooting Location: Los Angeles, CA 
Email: info@leonfilms.net 
Compensation: Copy/Credit
Synopsis: Don DeWitt, a young gamer, is pulled into an alternate reality where video games are real life. There he fights through various video game genres from First Person Shooters to RPGs to try and find a way home. 

KEY DATES 

Auditions:
TUESDAY Jan 22nd, 2013 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM - FRIEDKIN ROOM
WEDNESDAY Jan 23rd, 2013 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM - HUGHES ROOM
THURSDAY Jan 24th, 2013 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM - FRIEDKIN ROOM 

Shooting Start: Saturday Jan 26th, 2013
Shooting End: Thursday Feb 7th, 2013 

Character BIOS

[JOHNNY] [GENDER: MALE] [AGE: 20-25]
Brown-haired martial art fighting brother of Bobby. Johnny & Bobby were born into poverty; but now fight against the street gangs of the city lead by Big Adam, a criminal overlord. He's fights to rescue the beautiful Kristy, his oft kidknapped girlfriend. A bit dense and far too chilled out about his kidknapped girlfriend. He embodies the muscle-bound meathead of old 80s Arcade Beat 'Em Ups. MARTIAL ARTS EXPERIENCE IS PREFERABLE. #

BOBBY] [GENDER: MALE] [AGE: 20-25]
Blonde-haired martial art fighting brother of Johnny. Pretty much an identical clone of his brother but with blonde hair and a different coloured outfit. He's the more subserviant of the two meat-headed, punch-throwing brothers and is barely ever seen without a grin on his face. Has something of a surfer-like personality about him at times. Loyal to his brother till death. MARTIAL ARTS EXPERIENCE IS PREFERABLE. 

 [GRUNT] [GENDER: MALE] [AGE: 20-40]
Massive hulk of a man but born without much of a brain. Grunt is literally as his name describes, a henchman for Big Adam, the city's criminal overlord. He's the kind of man who looks like he could tear someone apart limb from limb with his bare hands. Very destructive, brawler-type fighter. Walks around shirtless. 

[LT. CMDR HELEN DANES] [GENDER: FEMALE] [AGE: 25-35]Space Marine of a Galactic Empire, raised to be a soldier. Danes has spent most of her life aboard star cruisers and other space faring vessels. She's recently been given command of her own ship. Brutal, vicious and eager to please her commanders, Danes will do anything it takes to get the job done. 

[NAZI COMMANDER] [GENDER: MALE OR FEMALE] [AGE: ANY]
Blonde haired, blue eyed, rigid posture. Everything we've come to know and hate about the Nazi's all boiled up into one archetypal package.

[COMMUNIST COMMANDER] [GENDER: MALE OR FEMALE] [AGE: ANY]
Black haired, bearded (If male), thick Russian accent, staunch supporter of Socialism. This is your typical bad-guy from an 80s movie.

[TERRORIST COMMANDER] [GENDER: MALE] [AGE: ANY]
Sterotypical middle-eastern terrorist, aggressive, angry, hates freedom (of course). He's everything we've been led to believe a terrorist is since 9/11. 

[STREET THUG] [GENDER: MALE OR FEMALE] [AGE: ANY]
Tough thug from Big Adam's Gang, they patrol the streets looking to start fights just... because. MARTIAL ARTS EXPERIENCE IS PREFERABLE. 

[DOMINATRIX] [GENDER: FEMALE] [AGE: 20-35]
Sexy, sultry, dressed in kinky clothing but armed with an electric whip and ready to beat the crap out of anyone with it in the name of Big Adam.

So that's the audition, feel free to drop by or send us an email with your resume or headshot.

MARTELL TV.

Some buddies of ours at the YouTube Network Martell Bros. are creating an app using crowdfunding. This app is designed to bring your favourite videos from around the web into one convient location starting with YouTube and Blip. Why is this important and why do we support it to tell you guys about it?

Frankly, YouTube's layout blows at the moment. It's becoming harder and harder for people to get their new videos seen by members, especially now that the layout seems more interested in Recommending you videos you've either already seen, instead of your subscription list, y'know what you've selected you want to see more of.

Anyway, the app could be a groundbreaker in bringing web television to the same level as broadcast television. Martell TV is planned for iOS, Android, Windows 8 and eventually home games consoles, a website and much more. As a webseries production, My Life as a Video Game could benefit greatly from something like this especially as all the videos on there will be ad-enabled.

But you don't have to take our word for it, here's a link to their IndieGoGo Page to see what it's all really about: www.indiegogo.com/martelltv

We wish them the best of luck and hope things go well for them, and by proxy all of web video in the future.

Updated 4: WE DID IT!!!!!!

As of today we have raised our $30,000 needed to produce this series! This is awesome, as you can tell and we're all over the moon. We wanted to thank ALL OF YOU, for this, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thanks to those who donated $10, thanks to those who donated $2000. It all counted and you'll all be rewarded. We're incredibly happy we've raised enough to do our first ten episodes.

Special thanks goes to Brent Black a.k.a. brentalfloss, for using his YouTube connections to help raise a lot of the money. Thanks to family, to friends and to everyone. We are incredibly grateful here guys, you have no idea.

A big thanks also to Anna Anatolitou, who contributed a lot to our campaign, and also to Jeffrey Thomas whose contribution was the one that took us over the final hurdle to our goal.

THANK YOU ALL. We're still open for another 58 hours, so let's keep on sharing and pushing to raise and much as we possibly can!!