New (Patreon exclusive) video! What Jack Antonoff Taught Me About Games Writing (Patreon)

Hey everyone!

Just to let you know the new video is available exclusively for patrons! A lot of people seem to hate musician/pop producer Jack Antonoff these days for apparently ruining the sound of the many artists he works with (Taylor Swift being the most prominent and recent example), speculating wildly on not only his style of production, but the very role of producer itself in the process. Now, I don't even enjoy the music Antonoff is involved with, but as someone who has a great deal of experience in this field, some of the blatantly uninformed takes I've seen have driven me to defend him. More importantly though, it's given me this opportunity to reflect on my many years writing about video games... despite having never made a game myself.

So if you remember at the end of last month I posted the audio for this video, and this is the accompanying video component. First off, don't worry, you won't be charged for this video! The audio was a charged post last month, plus I already posted the two God of War vids for this month, so we'd be at the limit I imposed on paid posts anyway.

Sorry it took so long. Had a bit of a hectic month with a lot of health stuff going on in the background that disrupted my schedule a bit. Next month I'm hoping to make up for it with three videos, including Game of the Year (again with the assurance that only two of them will be charged posts, don't worry)!

Anyway, now that's out of the way, I can say I really enjoyed writing this piece. I'm liking the ability with these patron-exclusive videos to get a bit more abstract/personal/in the weeds than the YouTube algorithm would normally allow for (plus, the Antonoff drama is probably long forgotten by most at this stage)!

(I should say I compiled an unlisted playlist of the patreon exclusive videos that I'll try and remember to put in every post from now on, so people have easy access to all the exclusive stuff - hopefully it works for you, and please don't share it around!)

This piece in particular lets me talk about things like my passion for music, my impostor syndrome, as well as express a thought process I regularly meditate on about games writing more widely. Hopefully that's as interesting to you to hear about as it was for me to think/write about.

I like this piece a lot, and I'm making it exclusive as a thank you to you guys, because it's your support that allows me to make this kind of weirder project. I cannot thank you enough for that. You're the best, and like I say I've been working on an absolute ton, so December is hopefully going to be a pretty stacked month! New video very soon, on a game I really, really love. Can't wait to share it with you all.

Thanks again,

Hamish

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