DATE: Friday July 30th (Tomorrow)
TIME: Noon Pacific / 3PM Eastern / 8PM BST (Available as a VOD afterwards)
YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/qSeWRBTzfV4
Hey Patrons!
Man, this one has been a long time coming. Even with the added "Production Blog" on this episode of Greatest Hits I feel like you folks have been out of the loop on this project.
The reason is clear - the game that won the vote was a big ask. Thief is an important game with a magnetic field around it that attracts so much of PC gaming history from that era. The result is that I spend months tracking down people and booking time to talk. I interviewed over a dozen people for this one and conducted more email research than I've ever done before. All to try and detangle the myth of Looking Glass and give a fresh perspective on the story of one of gaming's most beloved series.
On tomorrow's production meeting I'm going to talk about it all and answer whatever questions you have. The doc is about 10 days from finish so I can show you a bunch of it too.
Well first of all you don't have to turn up, fully researched with a notepad and pen. These are meant to be a patron reward, not homework. So there are loads of ways to help us out or just enjoy the content, including;
Tomorrow is a catchup meeting for the whole project. I'll let you know who we talked to and who we didn't. The amount of the documentary we focus on the different games. I want to take some feedback on what to do with all the cutting room floor stuff - because there is a lot of it and a lot of it is really good. Also it's a good time to look at the Greatest Hits format and how we can stop production creep like this next time. I've got some ideas on that myself.
Mostly I just want to share with you all we talked about and get you excited for what it is easily the best retrospective we've ever worked on. The documentary is well over an hour and packed full of good stuff.
Talk tomorrow taffers!
Danny