Update: Still Signalis (Patreon)

Hi, hope you all had a happy Hallowe'en.

After a very busy October for reasons professional and personal, I'm back in the Signalis edit and making progress again. I finished a draft of the video's third chapter (out of six) just today! There is still a lot to be done, and in a lot of ways I'm now getting into the real meat of the video. It'll be a challenge, but at least one I'm up for facing. 

There has been a slight but significant development in that Signalis just got a new update that adjusts how the inventory system works, and adds options for expanding it further if players want. As I said on Twixter this is a very welcome update, and it also means I need to quite dramatically redo a good portion of the video. 

My tweet has no lie. I bemoaned Signalis' inventory system for almost 10 minutes in the edit. I felt very strongly about it. I had considered revising what was here to be less overwhelming, but I also wanted to be clear why I didn't think the game's original approach worked. Now these changes are here, all my qualms have basically evaporated, but I've now got to cut my arguments out and redo the whole chapter. It's not as simple as putting a bandage over it, as the whole pace of the video is weird if I just remove the outdated section. So chapter 2 is going back in the shop as well.

The work with Signalis never ends, I swear...

What I will do is post the cut segment for Patrons after the main video has gone live. It's basically finished, more or less polished to how I wanted it, and I was quite proud of what was there (with assistance from my friend Andrew Huntly), so I think it's still worth watching. 

As for when the Signalis video will be out, as I missed my way-too-optimistic October deadline I don't want to give a date. I am intimidated by the size of this video sometimes, and want to release it only when it's done and I'm happy with it. It should be out before the end of the year at the very least, unless something bad happens like personal injury or the game receiving another update.

Thank you always for your support and understanding. I hope to speak to you all soon.

Stay safe!

- Jack