COLONY Update: June 2025

Hello, everyone! June has come and gone, time flies when you’re having fun, and we had loads of fun this month, and we cannot wait to give you a look behind the scenes at what we’ve been up to in these quiet weeks, so let’s get into it!

As we’ve discussed and shown off at length these past few months, we’ve been gearing up to shoot a gameplay trailer for COLONY’s tabletop RPG, putting in hard work making minis on our community day streams, writing scripts, assembling cast and crew, refining audio, and an intense amount of prop work. All that hard work and preparation culminated on the weekend of June 21st, when we got everything and everyone together to film our exciting first look at the game!

Although the shoot certainly had its challenges, we persisted, capturing everything we could before the sky grew too dark for even us to use any longer. More than that, throughout filming, we kept high spirits, knowing what we were making was going to be spectacular when we were finished. We prioritized the shots we knew would be necessary to have our actors in, and wrapped for the day. The following Monday, my co-director and camera operator, Chris, returned for another day of pickups that we could accomplish without the cast, and we managed to charge through and get all the rest of the footage we needed for the trailer.

Every so often on our shoot days, insects and critters of all sorts visited us in the patio, and we always took those visits to be good omens, with moths, lady bugs, spiders, and grasshoppers all sending us their luck and approval.

The trailer is now in the editing phase as we speak, and we’re planning for it to launch as an exclusive premiere in our Beyond BIONICLE showcase that we run for the 810NICLE Day broadcast group. Alongside our trailer, you’ll get to see three other really cool non-BIONICLE creative projects from folks around the BIONICLE community, and we’re excited for the lineup we get to show off this year! So mark your calendars for August 10th and be sure to go subscribe to the 810NICLE Day channel so you can see the first look at our trailer. The trailer will, of course, be uploaded to our own YouTube channel shortly after that premiere, so you’ll be able to watch it on your own time if you can’t make it to the broadcast.

Now that the chaos of getting the bulk of the trailer work has been put behind us, we’re hoping to start easing our way back into our normal schedule, starting with our community hangout days on our Discord server. We’ll have more news on that at a later date, so for now, we’re gonna sign off and wish you all a happy July!

Take care, be safe, and we’ll see you next time!

Cheers,

Isaac Muir

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