Project Update: The Signalis Spiral (Patreon)

Hi everyone. I'm here for another update into what I'm doing, so I'm not silent for another few weeks.

I was hoping I would be able to dive back into things fairly quickly. It took a few more days for my cold to disappear, but I was ready to get back into the fray. I had just hit credits on Signalis and was writing my review when I uploaded the Cultic video. "Should be done quickly," I thought.

What happened then was I beat Signalis a second time. There will likely be a third.

The gameplay section of the script is more or less finished, bar maybe trimming down a section or two, but the story section of Signalis keeps going on and on. It's going to be a deep dive analysis, which is almost scary because I haven't done that before in a video and I don't know how it will go down. My Tunic video is probably the closest, but that was more about the narrative in relation to the gameplay mechanics. Here we're talking almost pure story, and the details behind the story which is a rabbit hole that might kill me if it isn't already. I'm trying to avoid watching other people's videos and writing on the story as to keep my own voice in the video, but looking at what the fans are doing and uncovering is inevitable. 

All this is fascinating but it means that the Signalis video is taking longer than I thought. But I hope the effort will at least show through with it, so please look forward to it. 

It might not be the next video however. I have noticed that I can go into something like a mental tunnel on a video that is becoming large and unwieldy and can't properly look at what I'm making and judge how it is fairly. It's a curious habit that I've recognised and am trying to control. One way out of the tunnel is with a break from the nightmare, but not just sitting doing nothing, instead tackling a smaller project and then returning to the bigger one after that. You can see I did this by covering Gloomwood in the midst of my King's Quest project, and to a lesser extent the Demo Fest in October while working on Overwatch 2.

So I think a fluffier video on Game of the Year stuff might be in order to keep my head above the water. I haven't finalised in what shape that will be but I am also still trying to at least finish the gameplay side of the Signalis video before working on that. 

I hope for both videos to be out before the end of the year, but there is a chance the Signalis video may end up later than expected due to the busy holiday period. I promise it will be worth the wait. 

After the Signalis video will probably be something light again, or I might get right into the Dead Space 3 video. It'll be big too, but I'd like it done before the remake comes out. Putting the previously mentioned Twelve Minutes review back until I've finished the pressing matters. Also to make sure I'm not uploading too many negative videos at once. Lord knows there's enough Angry British Reviewers in the world.

Speak to you all soon.

- Jack