I think I played more games in December than I did in all of 2018 total. Hence, a three hour podcast! There's a little something for everybody in here -- Sonic Forces Speed Battle, Celeste, Antichamber, Megaton Rainfall, Bloodstained, and more tangents than you can shake a stick at.
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I think I mentioned on last month's podcast that I was considering doing one final minor update to OverBite -- well, here that is. There were some outstanding bugs with controller support that made me unhappy, so I fixed those and implemented a small handful of quality of life fixes over the course of a day and a half. Here's t...
2019-01-06 01:00:41 +0000 UTC View Post
The holiday continues! It's basically the end of the year, which means it's time for the closest equivalent I can muster to a Game of the Year discussion. Also: Sonic Unleashed is on the Xbox One! But is it actually improved or not? The Game Awards! And the continuing nightmare that is the Playstation Classic!
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Video games! They're happening! In this podcast I gripe about how Red Dead Redemption 2 gives me shades of GTA4, the Playstation Classic lineup, the continuing struggles of work-life balance, what to do about the voices in my head, and other subjects that make me sound a little less crazy than you'd think.
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As I've said in the past, I tried to cut back on going nuts with the artwork in this review because I wanted to cut down on the time it would take me to produce it. I also figured it would be a shorter, easier video, too. (Which it kind of was, but not like I'd hoped)
Unfortunately, I have to post the 4x resolution versions of these I use in the ...
2018-11-12 10:39:28 +0000 UTC View Post
So here's a poll I've pinned as the first comment on the Sonic Mania Plus video review. I'd do a separate poll for Patreon users, like I did the last time, but this is a multiple-choice poll with around six questions, and as far as I'm aware, Patreon only lets me ask one question at a time.
That's also why this poll is available to all Patr...
2018-11-10 02:06:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a 98% complete version of the Sonic Mania Plus video review. The final released version will have some minor differences, but that won't be premiering until Saturday at the earliest because we're shooting to maybe air it on the TSSZ live show like we did with the last one.
2018-11-08 03:55:56 +0000 UTC View Post
This is very stupid. I debated on even doing it at all, but that just made me bite down and commit even harder.
2018-10-25 10:16:31 +0000 UTC View Post
It's two spooky boys this month on Patreon Party People as Matt returns and you find out what's happening with Dare to Scare, on top of spooky games we're playing and dealing with burnout.
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Shooting longer form video with my new camera is turning out to be a challenge. I'll talk more about it on the podcast, but for now, here's a lightly-edited test video if you'd like to watch me play a little Luigi's Mansion and GRIP.
2018-10-11 10:19:20 +0000 UTC View Post
The sign of any entertaining Youtube video is bar graphs, right?
2018-10-05 11:47:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I've got a lot to say about SAGE, about Doom, about my new camera, and about a lot, lot more stuff! I mean, this dang podcast's like two hours long!
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Another guest, huh? You'd swear this was becoming a trend. (It won't.) (Probably.) This month I'm joined by former Patron and current cousin Matt, as we go over future ideas for my Youtube channel, the state of the Sonic Mania Plus review, PUBG, No Man's Sky, and Infinity War. Gosh, some of that almost sounds like a real podcast.
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2018-08-15 07:53:03 +0000 UTC View PostI recently recovered the Sonic 2006 Charity stream I did back in 2012 and I want to put it on Youtube. In fact, I kind of have to, as it takes up so much HDD space that I have to do something with it before I can start capturing footage for my Sonic Mania Plus review.
Problem is: it's 18 hours long. I have to cut it up in to chunks, but how...
2018-08-06 14:59:23 +0000 UTC View Post
BRING IT IN, GUYS! It's my birthday again (well, technically) so this podcast is automatically free for everyone! And in it, I go over in lots of detail about the final struggles faced in my Sonic Mania video review, early reactions people are having to it (and how I predicted them), plus the usual nonsense.
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And here's the finished review. See if you can spot the differences between this and the early version I posted a few days ago! There's more than a few.
2018-07-17 18:09:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a dump of all the "pixel art" I did for the Sonic Mania review. Scroll all the way down and I'll talk a little more about the process.
2018-07-16 17:36:59 +0000 UTC
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So here's artwork I drew, colored and finished for the Sonic Mania review that did not end up getting used. I write out a shot list for this kind of stuff, so I know what my art requirements are going to be for a review, but when I started editing I did not in fact refer to that shot list, so I was like halfway through editing the video when I real...
2018-07-16 17:08:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the complete, properly edited version of the 2017 version of the Sonic Mania review audio.
Here's the complete, properly edited version of the 2017 version of the Sonic Mania review audio. I did this not long after I posted the raw recording here on Patreon last year.
"Reviews as a podcast" is something I've wanted to tr...
2018-07-16 16:55:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I wasn't planning on having this be an early-access release, but Tristan, my boss over at tssznews.com, wants to premiere my review as part of their livestream on Monday. Since the review is done now, I figured I'd let you guys see it early.
Note that this is a slightly different version then what will be going up publicly on Monday. The...
2018-07-14 11:17:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a screencap of an infographic I'm probably not going to use in the review because it's a big screen of numbers that has to stay up for at least five seconds to provide time to read it all, on top of having to keep track of what I'm saying.
It's just a bad combination.
I might try and sneak some of this in elsewhere, but i...
2018-07-03 09:13:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Rendered this out to get a feel for how everything is coming together in the first two and a half minutes, as the preview window in Sony Vegas can stutter with all the effects and layers.
I'm not super happy with the timing of some of these segments, so that's going to have to be reworked. I'm also baffled why the Knuckles clip at the end o...
2018-06-28 01:31:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I mentioned on this month's podcast that I was trying pixel art for the video review. Here's a video showing my current process! It's slower than I'd like, honestly, but the end result isn't... terrible.
2018-06-18 22:36:58 +0000 UTC View Post
After last month's titanic, nearly three-hour podcast, balance must be restored. Fortunately, there wasn't much going on this month so I keep things rather short. I talk about artistic choices for the Sonic Mania review, video game road trips, and of course, Final Fantasy 6. Oh, and this little known movie franchise known as Star Wars.
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It's "Better Late Than Never" for this month's Patreon Podcast -- largely because it's so dang big! There's a lot of meat on these bones as I cover multiple big changes to the Youtube channel, to what shirts are available on RedBubble, to how I should handle future stream archives, and way more! Then, in the second half, a special guest (and fellow...
2018-05-18 13:37:55 +0000 UTC View Post
So much to talk about! Computers! Sonic Mania Plus! A definitive (?) answer on Youtube vs. Indie Game Development! A do-over for a segment from last month! Battle of the Burnouts! And more Final Fantasy 6! Maybe two hours is just the default podcast length now?
A bit later than I'd like, but here we are with another Patreon Party People Podcast. I dunno, I was kind of in a weird mood for this one, so I'm worried certain things come off sounding more abrasive than I intended. The usual updates on the future of things, plus talk about Sonic Adventure Retranslated, Final Fantasy 6, and, oh yeah, the poll fro...
2018-03-13 17:55:37 +0000 UTC View Post
I mentioned this in February's podcast: one of the game projects I'm "currently" working on. "Currently" in quotes because it's a very on-and-off thing that I'm not super serious about. I've been poking at it since late October or November, and usually I'll mess with it for a week or so and then focus on other stuff. It's a very casual project. You...
2018-03-01 10:09:12 +0000 UTC View Post
This podcast is in tents. Like the circus. I'm sorry. If you can forgive me for that pun, I talk about the tons of stuff that happened over January and half of February: the saga of my broken computer gets a little more ridiculous, I complain about Parappa the Rapper some more, and I pose a very important question to you all.
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2018-02-17 21:35:02 +0000 UTC View PostNormally this is right around the time I'd be recording this month's podcast, but things may be a little later than usual. I've caught a cold. Again! The fifth one in seven months!
I figure it's just acclimation blues and the fact I spend time around toddlers now -- babies are disease vectors.
But what this means is t...
2018-02-06 07:45:56 +0000 UTC View Post