Agents of Mayhem - Behind The Scenes (Patreon)

How the video came about:

This one is more so a matter of gradual change of the last couple of months regarding the channel itself more than anything else.

A fairly big change behind the scenes recently is that I've now been partnered with a larger multi-channel network for just over month now, and so far it's going pretty well.

There' a few things I like about the one I'm with, but the obvious one that affected this video is that I was in a position to ask for an early copy of Agents of Mayhem for review.

And that's basically it, the video went from being a maybe to a completed video in around 8 days!

How the video changed during production:

As I was so pushed for time I didn't really change all that much from what I wanted to do in the first place. 

Having the flu since the day before I got my hands on the game would have made me scale back any grander ideas I had for the on-camera parts anyway, so what I wrote was pretty much the exact same thing I ended up with in the end, albeit around 4 minutes longer than I first intended.

So time constraints and illness in mind, I didn't really intend to be on camera that much anyway, but I felt some appearance was necessary. If nothing else, to poke fun at the fact the game has no co-op.

Trivia and other info:

This is the fastest I've edited a video together. The vast majority of the video (basically all of it outside of the co-op skit) was edited in a single day.

I had the day off work on Wednesday last week, and I knew I needed the video out while it was still relevant so I pushed on and worked hard at editing that day.

Amazingly I had none of the technical problems I mentioned in my last post. Editing this video went pretty smoothly, with only the one render needed!

At 2:27 I put a bit of Sonic 2 music in this video just for the simple fact Agents of Mayhem shared it's release day with Sonic Mania! (That, and I really like the Chemical Plant Zone music!)

And lastly, there was a reason TomatoGhost appeared in this video.
Last year when the game was announced at E3 we did our first joint appearance in my E3 video, for a segment about Agents of Mayhem!

That, and it just so happened to time well into our recent collab, where we did indeed find a co-op game to play in the end.

And that's a wrap!

It's a short post for this video but that's mainly down to how quickly the thing ended up going from a potential idea to the finished product.

As for what's next, I'll go back to being a little more secretive about things for a while. 

You all know what at least one of the next videos will be is from my last post, but the other ideas I have will be a nice surprise!

For some of these ideas I do still need to work out how I'll go about writing them before I say anything, anyway. If I do say anything, that is!

Sometimes a surprise is nice :)

Thanks for reading, and for your support!

- Pete