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Patreon Party People Podcast - January 2019
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.Important Links OverBite (2019 Game Jam Build) (Itch.io) Sonic Lost World PC review on Steam The SRB2 Kart Blog Post Megaton Rainfall Celeste Antichamber Bloodstai...
OverBite - Minor Update (1/5/2019)
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 the changelog: Automatic detection for the Dualshock 4 controller should be better. Tutorial prompts are actually ...
Patreon Party People Podcast - December 2018
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!Important Links Sonic Hacking Contest Articles: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Video 1, Video 2, Video 3 Digital Foundry: Playstation Classic Revie...
Patreon Party People Podcast - November 2018
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.Important Links BLTN.net comes up a lot Here's the finished Sonic Mania Plus video review if you missed it Here's the Stream Ar...
Sonic Mania Plus Review Artwork
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 video (to prevent blurry rescaling artifacts). Patreon, for a completely stupid reason, takes t...
Poll: Regarding the Sonic 06 Stream Archive
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 Patrons instead of just the $2 tier, because it's just a normal poll. This post is more j...
Sonic Mania Plus Video Review (Early Access)
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.
Review Preview: LAST TIME ON...
This is very stupid. I debated on even doing it at all, but that just made me bite down and commit even harder.
Patreon Party People Podcast - October 2018
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.Important Links The Live Camera Test Video Matt's Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/mattpula Also his Instagram and TwitterMusic Intro: Tales from the Dark Side (Theme) Mid: Grim Grinning Ghosts from Disney's Haunted Mansion End: When He ...
Live Camera Test
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.
Mathimagical
The sign of any entertaining Youtube video is bar graphs, right?
Patreon Party People Podcast - September 2018
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!Discussed Links SAGE 2018 Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Le Monde: "When There's No Good Sonic Games, Fans Make Their Own" (Google Translate Link) My side of the Le Monde Interview Low Light Camera Test: MEGA CHONKER cat Camera Test: My Cat is a Chatty Cat Video: Rollcage Rollcage Re...
Patreon Party People Podcast - August 2018
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.Check out Matt http://mpula.bandcamp.com/ https://www.twitch.tv/mattpula https://twitter.com/matttpulaO...
So... chunks, huh?
I 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 big do you want the chunks to be?This is the first Patreon poll I've run, and I'm running the sa...
Patreon Party People Podcast - July 2018
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.Music Intro: Mega Man 8 Intro (US) from Mega Man 8 Mid: Pioneer 2 Remix by Mr. DNA Outro: Planet Wisp "Misty Night" OCRemix by Fa...
Sonic Mania Review Part 1 - Final Version (BLTN #12)
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.
Sonic Mania Review: All Pixel Art
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.As you might discern from the process video, most of these were done by drawing an image in pencil first, scanning it in, and then scaling the pencil art down and inking/coloring it as pixel art.I couldn't always do that, though. Again, I refer back to that shotlist: I outlined the genera...
Sonic Mania Review: Unused Artwork
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 realized "Wait, I missed something."This was to go when I say "These guys got to live th...
Sonic Mania (Lost 2017 Audio)
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 try doing before. The original test case was actually going to be Breath of the Wild, but I never got aro...
Video Review: Sonic Mania (Early Version)
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 changes between that version and this one are so minor that you might not even notice unless I point th...
Sonic Mania Video Review - Cut Content
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 it definitely won't be a big dump like this all in one image.
First Look at the Sonic Mania Review
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 of this preview dropped so many frames; I'll probably try and find another part in the same vi...
Sonic Mania Review - Pixel Art Process
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.Music
Patreon Party People Podcast - June 2018
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.Links Hemingway EditorMusic Intro: Passing Breeze from Outrun 2006 Outro: Beginning/Vampire Killer by GaM...
Patreon Party People Podcast - May 2018
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 patron) Setsune Wiefel joins me for an extended discussion on Sonic Forces....
Patreon Party People Podcast - April 2018
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?Links To Things Bravemule.com Sonic Adventure Retranslated on Youtube Sonic Adventure Retranslated Mod for SADX Sonic Mania Developers Moving On (for now): 1, 2, 3Music Intro: Track 08 from...
Patreon Party People Podcast - March 2018
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 from last month.Show Notes Windii's Sonic Adventure Retranslated Videos The "Sonic Adve...
Hidden Palace Preview
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 can get more context by going back and listening to Feb...
Patreon Party People Podcast - February 2018
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.Music Intro: Labyrinth Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog Mid: Cheep Cheap Chicken (Live Play) - Parappa the Rapper Remastered O...
Heads up
Normally 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 that I'm in no state to talk right now. I've had a sore throat for the last three days, making it painful to t...
