Welcome & First Production Update! (Patreon)

Hi there, welcome to the Patreon. Thank you for your support. It means a lot, really.

The main thing that will be getting posted on the feed here, at least right now, is production updates. I'll let you know what I'm working on in the short or long term, and maybe when you can expect them... If I even know myself. 

I think I'll probably tie these with public video launches. Once a video is out I'll do a little post here reflecting on it and talking about the plans for what's next. Sometimes I have a project ready to go straight away. Sometimes I don't. Those times might be when I go to make a poll for the $5+ tiers. Deciding what to do myself can be tricky. Asking people directly what they might want to see and just going through with what's democratically decided? Now we're talking. Acting without thinking. Real shit.

I guess I should do the first production update then?

King's Quest was an ordeal to make. I played and recorded this game back at the start of April. This was meant to be the next big video after Iron Lung, with Nine Sols meant to fill the gap, but then I got scared the 16-colour adventure game would scare everyone off after the views suddenly appeared. I did The Last of Us Factions Multiplayer instead, as I was playing it again at the time. I was happy with that video.

But it was all probably nonsense thinking considering how entertaining the video turned out (or at least I think so) but I think it turned out so good partly because I had it on the back-burner for so long, working on it only a little bit at a time between other projects. 

I only started working with dedicated gusto in September but the structure of the video and its parts is basically unchanged from how it was originally drafted. I burned myself out slightly working on it while I had shingles, so once I was over that I made the Gloomwood video to refresh my batteries and my perspective on what is my longest video... so far. 

Overall I'm happy with it, and the reception it's gotten. I want to do more adventure games in this format because there's a lot out there that can make for some fun videos. Good ones, bad ones, and plain weird ones.

So what's next? Steam Demos. Another demo fest means another batch of demos to play. As of writing (the afternoon of Monday 3rd October) I've already played a few demos for games that have hit the ground early and I know of a few which are going to be updated for the actual festival. It should be fun. Hopefully done before the end of the festival.

Afterwards is slightly unclear. It might be a video on Overwatch dying and being replaced with Overwatch 2. Or we might get started with Hallowe'en stuff. It depends on what angle I find with OW2, if any. It probably won't end up being a poll this time, but we'll see.

Long term is a God of War 2018 video which I want to get out before Ragnarok. Longer term is another obscure horror game whose script keeps unnaturally growing. It's already longer than King's Quest and I'm not even in its spoiler section yet. You'll only hear about these when I have something to share.

Okay, first log down. Thank you once again, and I'll speak to you all soon.

- Jack