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Production Livestream!

Hello!

Here it is! The first livestream! It's a bit of a test to see what works and what doesn't. There might be bumps. Please let me know of anything you would like me to improve.

Production update 2021-12-18

Edit: Changed the date from the 28th to the 29th!

Hi everyone!

I can't believe it's been 10 days already since the last update. Time flies, doesn't it.

Basically, I've accepted that I'm just not in the right mindset to edit the video and I've been doing other things. Working on custom music for Donkey Kong 64 romhacks, playing games and spending time with my brother and father...

Production update 2021-12-08

Hello everyone,

I'll be straight with you all, it's been a bit of a rough week. I had set the goal to release the video before the holidays, and I really wanted to get there, but the energy and motivation just were not there. I fell into a spiral of dicking around, doing sudokus, browsing Twitter, Twitch, YouTube and reddit, never actually committing to anything longer than like 10-20 min...

Production update 2021-11-25

Hello!

Apologies for the late update. I kept getting sidetracked by all sorts of stuff.

Well! I'm still in the process of writing the script, but I got past the mental block of not having done any progress in a while and being stuck in a tough place to break down. I've completed about 16 talking points and 7 pages, which puts me at roughly 50% of the script done, give or take. ...

Production update 2021-11-16

Hello,

I'm sorry I don't have better news. The past 3 weeks have just been straight up bad for both my girlfriend and me. We were both hit hard by the flu, one after the other, we fell behind on all sorts of responsibilities, and many things around the apartment broke down (heating, toilet, multiple lights burned out in quick succession). It seems every minor inconvenience and dumb issue ...

Production update 2021-11-05

Hey everyone,

I posted about this on Discord but for those of you not in there, I simply wanted to let you know that I have the flu and I've been taking a break to rest up. I got hit pretty hard by some high fever and I haven't been able to find the mental energy to work on the script. I will most likely post the next update on Monday, November 15th!

As of right now, the script has ...

Production update 2021-10-29

Hello everyone!

Let's start with a quick postmortem of Part 3. It was very well received, and died down relatively quickly. I'm just fine with that - I think overall, this ABC series is going to be a slow burner that will remain an asset of my channel for years to come. After 6 days it's sitting at #7 of my 10 most recent videos. Certainly below average, but it's fine. Wouldn't be an aver...

SM64 ABC Part 3 Music!

3 new pieces! Although one is just a conclusion piece and might not be great to listen to on its own. I didn't end up recording that other SMRPG song I wanted to include, but it's gonna be in Part 4.

SM64 ABC History Part 3 is out!

Production update 2021-10-19

Hello everyone!

I'm sorry I forgot to type up an update yesterday. I got wrapped up in editing stuff until late at night.

I do bring great news though! Here's the updated progress on the video:

• Script: 100%
• Recording: 100%
• Editing: 89%

Comparing to what I was aiming for last week, albeit one...

Production update 2021-10-11

Big week, big progress!

I had a great week overall. I did slow down on the recording for various reasons like my voice wasn't right, my girlfriend had classes, neighbors were noisy, or I straight up didn't feel like it. But editing has been going really well!

Here's the progress as of today:

• Script: 100%
• Recording: 60%
• ...
  2021-10-12 00:15:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Production update 2021-10-03

Hello everyone!

I hope you had a great week. I did! In fact, I want to get right into it.

First, some final words about how Part 2 is doing. Unfortunately, it did not have the second breath that SMB1 4:54 did, and it's fizzling out around 160,000 views. It will probably reach about 200,000 by the end of the month. That is below my average, but respectable - after all, it's 50% more ...

Production update 2021-09-27

Hello everyone!

First of all, I want to welcome all the new Patrons since the release of SM64 ABC History Part 2. If you haven't already, make sure to join the Discord server to have access to the Patreon channel where I talk pretty regularly about the video's progress! https://discord.gg/HuVcquK

Now, time for a quic...

New piano piece!

For real this time! Sorry for uploading a bad version the first time around. I accidentally had left start/end points from a previous video and so it only rendered 1:20 instead of the full 6 minutes.

SM64 ABC Part 2 is out!

Thanks everyone for your support while I was making this beast. On to Part 3!

Bad news

I know I said yesterday the video would be out on Saturday afternoon. Well, that was assuming I would be able to work on it until then.

Unfortunately, last night, I made a mistake. I deleted the whole project.

Of course not, that would be insane. No, for real, the mistake is really dumb, but it was my girlfriend's birthday, we went to our favourite restaurant. Come dessert time, "Yo...

Production update 2021-09-16

I held my promise!

Back on August 29th, I said that the video should be ready by September 17th. Well, I managed to stay on schedule! I am just about to officially announce the release time of Part 2: Saturday, September 18th, 3:00 pm EDT on Twitch, 4:00 pm EDT on YouTube.

I've been hard at work all week. Some days went better than others, but overall, I've been mak...

Production update 2021-09-08

Hello everyone!

I had a pretty good week. Last time, I had been working at my girlfriend's old home, and I was hard at work on the very long, very complex cloning explanation. Well, that is now in the past!

I moved back into my office. Still no AC, but days are getting chillier and the noise from the renovations is less distracting than during the first week. I took the weekend off ...

Production update 2021-08-29

Hello everyone!

Big turn of events this week. After the really poor experience from Monday/Tuesday, I took Wednesday off and went to play golf with my girlfriend. But also, we packed up our stuff and went to her dad's house. It used to be the family home, and it's got a nice basement we could set up in for a little while. I can't record here because the audio would sound too different fro...

Production update 2021-08-24

Hello everyone!

Overall I had a pretty decent week! I finished up the script, showed it to people for review, cleaned up a few things (suspiciously few, I'm surprised I didn't make more mistakes than that...), and started recording. I've been recording about 10% of the script per day, and I am now nearly halfway done with that.

I also started editing! I skipped the intro section for...

Production update 2021-08-14

Hello!

It's been a long time again. This time, though, I have news!

So, two weeks ago, I was on a vacation trip with my girlfriend. We visited Quebec City and the Saguenay region. I have a few pictures of the trip!

2021-08-15 02:38:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Production update 2021-07-27

Hello everyone!

This will be short. I mostly wanted to say that I'm out of town for a week, as I'm taking a vacation with my girlfriend. I'll be back on Tuesday next week.

The exciting news I said I would be able to share are unfortunately still delayed. It's something that's out of my hands and that I really wish moved quicker, but I'm stuck waiting for emails and harassing people ...

Production update 2020-07-15

Hello, long time no see!

So many things happened since my last update. Thanks for your patience while I stayed silent. I got in a loop of wanting to update but feeling like there wasn't enough substance, and feeling increasingly pressured to do something. Time started flying and a month later, here we are. I'm gonna structure this update in three parts: the past, the present, and ...