Hey, I missed a post last week. Sorry about that. I blame Christmas MADNESS*.
It's been a busy few weeks. The whole "YouTube is collapsing" drama combined with Machinima being bought out kinda leaves me in a state of limbo. YouTube analytics is up the swanny so I have no idea how many people are watching, what reactions to things really are, if I'm even being paid for any of this. It's a m...
2016-12-18 09:22:49 +0000 UTC View Post
NEVER. AGAIN.
I started work on this god damn series in June. JUNE.
I thought this would be a fun thing to make. A video on the top 100 games of all time. Easy, simple and nice and fun. First I needed to come up with the games. It took months.
Turns out, there are a lot of games.
First I had to come up with some judging rules. Ambition, quality, how it's held up etc etc. ...
2016-12-05 08:04:49 +0000 UTC View Post
OH GOD
Today you get an exclusive, secret and advanced look at the return of the Advent Calendars. Expect crap toys, knock off lego and an alarming amount of horror...
I had the great pleasure of editing these (well, I stole a memory card so Ashen's didn't have a choice) and... let's just say it has some... interesting... moments.
Starting on 1st December. Sorry you ha...
2016-11-27 00:53:52 +0000 UTC View Post
It was the only way to sink the Demma ship.
- Dan
PS. Love you Rebecca. <3
2016-11-19 20:41:43 +0000 UTC View Post
It's Saturday.
Right, now the pleasantries are over I've got a very quick update for y'all. Tonight is my 1 Billion views video. It's a bit talky and I quite like it. Also it involves scrabble.
I've spent the week setting up some EXCITING collabs for upcoming videos. That's EXCITING, not exciting. EXCITING. Way better than just exciting.
Also, Dad³ is doing some videos over the ...
2016-11-05 11:06:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's art from Rebecca is the new channel header! Attached to this post are a couple of wallpapers and some of her initial sketches for it! I love this one! :D
Some updates on things. No announced game progress at all this week. Rebecca has been ill and for me, well, every fucking year I forget that 90% of games come out in October and November and it's always a stressful recording time. I'm t...
2016-10-30 03:58:30 +0000 UTC View Post
ALL MORTGAGES AND NO GAME DEV MAKE DAN A DULL BOY.
ALL MORTGAGES AND NO GAME DEV MAKE DAN A DULL BOY.
ALL MORTGAGES AND NO GAME DEV MAKE DAN A DULL BOY.
ALL MORTGAGES AND NO GAME DEV MAKE DAN A DULL BOY.
ALL MORTGAGES AND NO GAME DEV MAKE DAN A DULL BOY.
ALL MORTGAGES AND NO GAME DEV MAKE DAN A DULL BOY.
ALL MORTGAGES AND NO GAME DEV MAKE DAN A DULL BOY.
ALL M...
2016-10-23 22:05:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to illness, hospital visits and many, many hours playing Battlestar Galactica for charity we had zero progress on the games front this week. Instead of the current dev log thingy I'm going to write about a Jim Sterling (Thank God For Him) video. Specifically, this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_h6...
2016-10-16 16:29:52 +0000 UTC View PostYou know when you decide something is a good idea and once you've started you realised that it was literally the worst time ever to do it.
WELCOME TO THE GREENLIGHT GAME UPDATES.
GOOD THING HOUSE BUYING AND WEDDINGS ARE SUPER NOT TIME CONSUMING EDITION.
Systems Nominal is going well. All quiet on that front. It's just being built and bits of it are working nice! Yay!
Th...
2016-10-08 01:19:34 +0000 UTC View Post
This week I have done nothing but real life stuff.
Wedding Stuff.
Mortgage Stuff.
Lawyer Stuff.
Tax Stuff.
Lots of stuff.
Because of this (and the fact is 5:39am and I haven't gone to bed yet due to trying to catch up on videos) this week's post is a picture of a dog that I found on the internet.
Thank you and goodnight.
- Dan
2016-10-03 04:40:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Updates from possibly the most tiring week of my life. Far too much talking to people wearing ties. Phone calls that literally lasted whole days. Said the word "Accounts" too many times. Was sick a lot. Very tiring.
Anyway. Let's check in with both games because for some reason I kept working on both.
First up, Systems Nominal Edition Steam (or SNES for short) is feature locked. That'...
2016-09-24 13:27:09 +0000 UTC View PostMulti part post about making a game AS WE MAKE IT?! OK, here we go!
So, like I mentioned last week, I want to make a game for Greenlight. A short little game that we put less resources into so if we mess up it's ok. A $1 game.
First step is coming up with ideas. That's the easy bit. I sat around for a bit and came up with a few concepts that could work, then I narrowed them down to just tw...
2016-09-18 02:53:41 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the late post this week. I may have not even noticed it was the weekend.
So, I really fucked up bits of the games I've already released. Really badly. Let's talk about some of them fuck ups.
Systems Nominal
Ah, my first little game. So innocent, so sweet, so shitily built. Biggest issue here was my YouTube bad habits crossing over. I saved nothing. Most of the ...
2016-09-13 02:19:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Totally forgot to post this earlier! The Q&A has been uploaded for your VoDing pleasure!
So how many of you played the drinking game from the YouTube post earlier in the week? None of you? That's good because you'd be DEAD.
Seriously, YouTubers fucking love their all caps, panic mode titles don't they? I saw at least 4 videos that ended in the sad sigh and one with a crying emoji on th...
2016-09-04 07:43:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Well... No. Not really.
So today a whole bunch of YouTubers had some of their videos un-monetised for not being "advertiser friendly". Big YouTubers made noise. Everyone had a panic. I updated my CV. The usual.
Then, new terms were found on the YouTube support page (see above). Big scary terms. No more sex jokes, no more violence, no more controversial subjects and absolutely no more s...
2016-09-01 02:54:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey let's do a Patreon Q&A soon! Ask your questions below and I'll do a live stream either tonight or tomorrow night at like 9pm UK Time! (Keep an eye on twitter for the announcement!) I'll put the VoD up here later if you miss it.
Ask away!
- Dan
Ooooooo today you've only gone and got a special video! Remember that new Toys channel header that Rebecca painted? Well she's only gone and recorded all 19 (!) hours of painting it and we've only gone and talked about the bloody thing in this video!
Disclaimer: The video is sped up. It's not 19 hours long.
- Dan x
P.S. Have I only gone and used "only gone and" 3 times in a ...
2016-08-20 17:49:43 +0000 UTC View Post"I like to design games so that everything the player does and doesn't do ties into the main goal of that game."
I wrote this sentence a few days before No Man's Sky (NMS) came out on PS4 and, while playing the game for the first time today, I realised that this is exactly the opposite of what NMS does and is the reason I seriously dislike NMS.
First, I'm going to expand on that i...
2016-08-14 04:29:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Some new wallpapers for you this week based on the new YouTube header based on Saints Row 2 based on video games based on gangsters based on crime based on life on the streets etc etc.
It's 3am. It's the best words I have at the moment. Should get a new shipment in soon.
Night. <3
- Dan
Today, I'm going to talk about the games we're making. I won't be revealing what they are just yet, just how I'm going about making them. And yes, I said "games" not "game".
There are five. One big project, two medium sized ones and a couple of small ones.
Now they're not all in active development, they're just planned. I wanted to come up with five different and diverse ideas bef...
2016-08-07 01:01:17 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-07-31 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Rebecca's spent the last week painting a huge version of my Lego Town for use with the Toys channel! Couple of wallpaper versions of it attached below for you to glue to your face or whatever it is kids do with wallpapers these days.
Hopefully she'll have a speed painting of it up soon so you can watch how it was done.
That's all for this week.
Don't work too hard.
- D...
2016-07-30 13:55:24 +0000 UTC View PostThere are two ways I get described when it comes to YouTube and I seriously dislike both.
1. Influencer.
What a horrible word. It's the go to for 50% of business related emails I receive and I loath it. It sounds like what you'd call someone who sells drugs to kids or, even worse, the sort of word a person in marketing would use. It strips away everything I do and bo...
2016-07-23 15:14:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Rebecca is re-doing the IRL header right now so I figured I'd share the test painting she did for it. 3 guesses what it'll be when it's done.
Also some very lovely messages on last weeks post. I appreciate it.
Game news very soon.
<3
- Dan
On one hand YouTube is the best thing to happen to me. I play games for a living. Editing is easy. I can work from home. It pays OK. I've had many great and wonderful moments in my life because of it.
But I feel stuck.
I feel like the challenge is gone. I can pull a damn fine video out of my ass 12 times a week. Occasionally I set myself something more complex to do but I feel...
2016-07-09 17:33:21 +0000 UTC View Post
A little tease for something special coming up next week.
Get hyped.
- Dan
Thank you so much for the support this month!
2016-06-30 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everyone's favorite time traveling Roman general turned sports entertainer is here!
First up you get the super nice wallpaper above! Woo!
Second, you get 3 unfinished alternate ideas for this month's header! Just hit up the attachments listed below. Aren't you lucky!
Third, you get this emoticon!
:)
WOW!
- Dan
2.5 Million is a lot of people.
Like, a lot.
It's around 0.035% of the earth population. If you got 10,000 random people in a room then...
1. You'd probably have a lot of Visa paperwork on your hands
2. 3 or 4 people in that room would be subscribed to me.
So that's my subscribers, but how many people have heard of me? Well I have 932,017,442 v...
2016-06-18 18:39:05 +0000 UTC View Post
... it's sneaky.
It's also for the 2.5 Million Sub Special...
Hmmm...
*Sneaks Away*
- Dan