Weekly blog 9/4/23

Hey all, a bit late with this, but I've been busy, and that busyness is finally paying off. I don't even care if busyness is a real word or not. Major progress is being made on the major projects I wanted to get done in August. For one, a new Game N Chill went live generally going over what I had in mind for this month/have accomplished last month...

The "too long didn't watch" is that the major projects I wanted to finish took too long so I'm going to work on them this month too. It cut into the time I would of spent building up the queue of videos I normally would have so it's been affecting streams and may affect videos a bit. Also I have way too many ideas floating in my head and am still trying to sort it all out.

I might change some things around, like the Pikmin 4 review whenever it's finished, but here's what I got for this month's upload schedule...

BTW I've made some minor updates to the site so it now better reflects my more recent projects. Okay, so here's the run down for everything else since that Game N Chill...

Videos and Streaming

I attempted a Pikmin 4 speedrun stream Saturday night and TBH it was more stress than it was worth. The problem wasn't the game as much as having to sit and do one thing for over two hours without even stepping away to go the bathroom. That would have been too much pressure on itself, let alone in a streaming environment. I won't be doing that again until my runs are good enough to get around an hour. I guess I got a bit frustrated at burning the usual stream time on something I decided to not even keep the VOD of, but at least now I know.

Currently working on wrapping up the Pikmin 4 review I started working on. Haven't made enough progress to say when it'll be released but the goal will still be to get it up this month. I've just sat down and did a bunch of recording to hopefully get the last of the footage I need to finish it. Now it's just a matter of sorting through everything I've recorded and finish up putting those clips together.

Golden Sun projects

I finished up my new Golden Sun related project the other day. It was made for a Game Jam in a Discord I'm in, so I want to wait for the results back on that before sharing it, plus I need time to decide if/how I'm going to make a video releasing it. (Cause the last thing I need right now is another video with a major amount of editing to do. xD )

For now, I'll just say it was too big for me to contain in a single patch. I'm real happy with how it came out, even if I don't really expect anyone to try out everything it has too offer, it was more about giving options to players rather than expecting them to play everything. But if you're a die-hard Golden Sun fan that's looking for a new way to play the game, this will be right up your ally. I guess it'll make for perfect stream content if I just want to play more Golden Sun. In the meantime, I finally found a moment to make a page for Golden Sun QOL, a patch for Golden Sun 1 that takes Golden Sun 1 and applies quality of life features similar to what I did for Dawn of Djinn. Not exactly new news to the Discord people, but I wanted to get that out to the more general public for a while now. It's currently out on Github, but I'm considering getting that, as well as my Game Jam project up on other platforms once I'm more caught up on everything else. Release GS QOL V1 · JackitK/GoldenSun-QOL (github.com)

Mis

I've had a long weekend, and while it's almost over, hopefully I can use the rest of the time to get caught up on the normal swing of things and also just take some time to relax. I was going to go on about things I've been up to, but I'm kind of just out of it between the heat and everything I've been working on today so I'm just going to call it here.

Oh yeah, had a real fun XG recording session early in the weekend, even though it was all side content. Hopefully I can find the time to do one more recording session so I have plenty to edit this month. TBH I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do once Pikmin finishes up. I have started editing the Lost Age Randomizer, but those feel more time consuming than Pikmin VODs did (or is it just everything seems time consuming with all the time going into this Pikmin 4 review) so I'm concern if I'll be able to keep up, but I have enough videos currently to last me the rest of the month. So that gives me plenty of time to sort things out.

That's all I got for this week. Maybe I'll have a more fun mis. section next week.