Hey team!
Getting Back on Schedule
This update is a wee bit late. I was booking it to get the Monkey Island video done by the end of February, so I let the update slide, and then it slid a little longer. This will be a theme in this update.
Where the channel stands right now ...
2018-03-08 14:43:18 +0000 UTC View Post
It is now public! Go tell your peoples.
2018-02-28 20:29:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team,
Here's a rough cut of a video that should go public tomorrow, though it could possibly need an extra day. It's a little rough - things that need tweaking are in the show notes on YouTube.
This is a video I've been planning since the very beginning of Innuendo Studios. I'm glad to finally have it (nearly) finished.
-I
2018-02-28 03:36:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey team!
Three things:
1. I was recently on an episode of the podcast Serious Inquiries Only, which just went public. Thomas and I talk about The Alt-Right Playbook and how it's researched, and also a bit about my career.
2. It looks like I will be on another panel in April, at 2018-02-19 20:32:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team,
The next video is going to be late. I tried to get it done by the end of the month, but I don't see that happening. There's a mix of reasons - December eaten up by holidays, January eaten up by conferences, tech issues, the script needing several revisions to get down to an acceptable length - but there's no one good reason. It's just proving harder than expected.
February's a sh...
2018-01-29 16:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Indivisible just posted the video from my half-hour talk from earlier this month. This is what I was working on last month, so it is, functionally, December's video. Go check it out and let me know what you think!
2018-01-28 20:02:47 +0000 UTC View PostHey team,
What follows is four pitches and a poll for what the Bonus Project should be. It's taken me a bit of brainstorming to come up with these pitches, as I kind of thought this stretch goal was a further off when I came up with it. Thanks for the patience.
(Please note: Your input matters, but in the end the deciding vote is me. If it starts to feel that the thing everyone wants me to...
2018-01-27 22:11:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team,
JD at Gaming Broadly has just podcasted the audio of our PAX South panel, Reclaiming Basements in a Multiplayer Era: Why We Game Alone. Give it a listen!
2018-01-25 00:52:07 +0000 UTC View PostApropos of nothing, I got a Curious Cat.
2018-01-19 15:12:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey team!
I want to let you all know that I'm retiring the video updates. I've noticed that, despite a pretty sizable increase in patronage these last few months - holy butts there are almost 900 of you now!!! - the monthly update videos are only getting about 30-40 views. That's fine! I've made a point of including text in the updates for people who would prefer to read, and it seems t...
2018-01-19 02:43:09 +0000 UTC View Post
(that was the least-terrible cover image YouTube gave me.)
I leave for California tomorrow, so here's December's update video!
tl;dr
Business
I'm gonna talk about Patreon's new fees. Beginning with two apologies: Sorry I didn't say something sooner, and also sorry if you're sick of hearing about it. Most of the people I'm pledged to have written long takes about it, I don't know how many of them you've read through already. I've been compla...
2017-12-08 22:41:49 +0000 UTC View Post
The new video is live. Much improved from the rough cut, I think. I really must learn to make these things shorter. Anyway, tell all your friends, see if you can spot the changes, I'ma go look at something that isn't a screen for a hot minute.
Cheers,
-I
2017-11-29 15:25:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This is an EXTREMELY ROUGH CUT of the next Alt-Right Playbook. It includes the following:
Despite the totality of flaws in this ...
2017-11-28 03:24:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team,
As a means of assuaging the part of myself that thinks I should only be successful if other great artists are as well, here's a short video shining some light on a few folks I support on Patreon and think you might want to check out. They are all excellent creators who are making considerably less on Patreon than I am.
LINKS
Elizabeth Simins
Patreon:
2017-11-09 00:26:13 +0000 UTC
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tl;dr
We've had a very big success on Patreon and I feel very grateful and also have very weird feelings about success and money so here's where I get REAL with you.
I'll be in the comments!
Here's a little thing I've been planning for a while: all the songs used in Innuendo Studios videos so far. Call it a thank you for getting me financially stable. Kind of a mixtape. Don't flash this around or ASCAP will come after me, but: enjoy!
If I don't forget, I'll throw new son...
2017-10-22 02:18:17 +0000 UTC View PostThat worked.
After hoping I might get at least close to the milestone of $1600 by sometime in December, we're just shy of $2300 in 36 hours. That means... jeez, I got more patrons in the last two days that in the last three years?!
I don't actually know what to say because these are the kinds of things human brains aren't built to process. It's overwhelming and humbling.<...
2017-10-21 01:33:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team,
The new Patreon video is live. Sure hope this works.
-I
2017-10-19 13:10:33 +0000 UTC View PostBoth of these videos have been slightly adjusted since the rough cuts I posted earlier. Audio is better, a few comments have been added or rephrased here and there.
I won't be monitoring the co...
2017-10-11 17:17:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey team,
We've got small changes and we've got big changes coming.
Starting with the small changes, I'm shuffling the order of the next videos. The plan was to release three Alt-Right Playbooks back-to-back, but I want to spend a little extra time on the third one, so I'm going to do some finishing touches on the two I have rough cuts for and release them this coming week...
2017-10-08 01:02:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team!
Well, as I seem to be saying a lot lately: This took longer than expected. But here's the first proper video in The Alt-Right Playbook. This rough cut is a lot more finished than the last one; I only have a few small revisions to implement before I re-edit it.
The plan now is to finish one more of these videos before launching them all together in a short span of time. I'm not go...
2017-10-04 00:38:28 +0000 UTC View PostHey team,
After a very scattered couple days, with everyone from Jack Conte to Hank Green showing up in my mentions and having fielded six interview requests (and counting) - because apparently I broke this story??? - I have been approved for the YouTube Partners Program and have seen how the settings actually work in practice. And I can keep the ads turned off.
While the new policy takes ...
2017-09-30 15:19:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Team, we have a situation.
YouTube has decided to no longer let you link to Patreon (or any other off-site link) unless you have ads enabled on your channel. This means, if I want Innuendo Studios to stay economically viable, I have to turn on ads. (I'll go into more detail in the next update video - th...
2017-09-28 16:07:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team!
Here is the new Intro to The Alt-Right Playbook! I realize this is mostly covering ground we already covered months ago, but it's extremely revamped and much, much improved, in my estimation.
The way I'm making these is a lot of the art is designed to be reused in future videos, so while this video took a while to make, each successive video should go faster tha...
2017-09-23 23:32:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team! New update video.
TL;DR for those who don't wanna watch:
- no video in August but - if all goes according to plan - three videos in September
- new Patreon announcement video soon after that
- might be looking for a steady job to bring more economic security, 90% certain this will not affect the channel
- I seem to love roguelike but they make me kind of depressed
- i...
Hey team!
There'll be a proper update video in the near future to talk about the next video(s), but here are two little things you can check out now.
Podcast!
I was on The Gaming Broad(cast) with The Gaming Broad, JD, talking about violence in video games: why it's hard to talk about, why i...
Hey team! A proper update video. If you want to respond to the conversation starter, I'll be in the comments.
Write-ups
Dear friends! After a great long while, I'm finally catching up on the un-annotated videos. Here is The (Annotated) Artist is Absent, the longest and therefore most annotated video in Innuendo Studios history. Go and enjoy!
2017-07-22 23:41:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team!
The new video is live. I went with the title Superposition - this wasn't one anyone suggested, but the suggestions everyone made helped me think along the right lines to come up with this one, so thank you! There are a few minor tweaks from the preview version - adjusted some audio levels, fixed some footage,...
2017-07-06 12:36:31 +0000 UTC View Post