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Hey everyone, not much to say today regarding the next video as this week as been all about cracking on with the background stuff.

Like I said last week, at the moment I'm taking a bit of time away from active production and focusing on the more passive side of production for a few weeks...

Things like playing some games, taking notes and trying to form some new ideas on the back of the games.

StarTropics:

Firstly, anyone following me on Twitter will know that StarTropics is a game I played for for the very first time not too long ago and while I shared a few screenshots of my experience with it on there... Yeah... I recorded the entire thing too!

As is the case with a lot of videos at the moment, nothing is absolutely set in stone with this one as to when it will happen but has ascended into the "100% needs to happen at some point" list. I've got all the gameplay here and having a whole bunch of notes made throughout my playthrough means I can make a script from it in the coming weeks if I give it the time.

Anniversary:

The other thing I've been doing is chipping away at the stuff I need for the 5 Year Anniversary. It's actually been sat here waiting since November for me to carry on with it but yeah... this is the main reason I wanted to take a break from active production for a while.

At the moment the archive of gameplay footage I have for this stands at 137GB so far.

(all of my game play is 720p with a frame rate of around 50FPS, so we're talking well over 400 clips at the moment)

...And I'm only just about half way through everything I'd need if I'm to do the idea I have in my head justice! I told ya it's a big project!

I've basically been sat on this idea for nearly a year and a half now, but over time it's grown a little more into something I reckon I could shape into a cool event for the Petronious Channel once everything is in place. Even more so now I've got back to working on it again!

Not to be pessimistic but if this year ends up being the year my channel has to slow down uploads, then THIS is the project I'd want people to remember Petronious in 2019 for.

I'll give periodic updates on how this is all going but it is something I do want to keep quiet about for now. I find revealing all of my best plans to anyone, be it publicly or here on Patreon suddenly makes me lose a bit of the excitement and passion of working on a secret thing I'm almost certain people will like.

That said, once all is said and done you guys will get a proper heads up in the form of a teaser trailer, or early access to the announcement video... or something like that!

Literal BUG problems:

I also had to spend a few days sleeping in a spare room due to some weird bugs that ended up somehow working their way into the corners and windowsill areas of my room.

Not a great problem to have... especially when that's the area my bed is in. But throwing a bunch of bug killer powder on the carpet and some persistent vacuuming... I think I managed to get rid of them.

Game Collection video?

I was going to also use this an an excuse to clear out my room of a lot of junk, and generally re-organise the gaming shelves as my recent PS1 games have thrown the whole thing out of whack... and was wondering filming the entire process for a potential video.

While the literal bug problem seems to have gone, I have a week off of work coming up at the end of April and will try to spend a day throwing out a bunch of junk in other areas of this room to make space for the stuff I like, and would want to have on display in the more open areas, like the shelves here!

Is that something you guys would be interested in?

I've had a couple comments in the a past about my games collection but never felt the need to do anything yet. I know people find that sort of stuff interesting on other channels (Ironically my friend Square Eyed Jak actually just made his own one if you want to get an idea of what kind of video I mean) so if it's something you'd like to see from me then let me know.

Different styled content like that could be of use to me in the future if my upload schedule does slow down a bit, after all.

Back to work!

Apologies for going on about this Anniversary stuff for so long (it's been months now, I know), but it's nice to know I'm getting back to actually working on it, rather than talking about wanting to work on it... if that makes sense.

For now, I'll get back to it among some other things and I'll keep you all posted on whatever the next video may be!

(I mean... It's probably StarTropics at this rate but take that with a pinch of salt)

Thanks, everyone!

- Pete :)