SebastianSB

Better thumbnail art!

Added 2025-03-18 20:13:13 +0000 UTC

I've wanted to do this for ages, but without sufficient backing from Patreon it's just way out of the budget for a let's play channel that doesn't get like 100k views per video. But I DO have sufficient Patreon backing, I think, thanks to all of you!

So I'm bringing on CrimsonRabbit (18+ warning) to help out! He previously did the art for the Fear and Hunger, Mouthwashing, and Pacific Drive thumbnails, so we already know how great his art fits for this kind of thing.

This isn't a "just for fun" or vanity thing, either. It's challenging to keep a normal "full playthrough" let's play channel sustainable these days when viewership seems to have moved on to spoken-over highlight reels (Dunkey, Iron Pineapple etc) or, of course, streaming. But I don't really want to be a streamer and engage with that kind of culture. The distracting redeems, the donation thanks, the disposable, unarchived output. I want to keep doing the type of let's plays I've been doing since 2011.

So I'm hoping that I might have some luck if I punch above my weight class a bit on the thumbnails. After all, video branding is almost more important than the actual contents of videos these days with how many people are all competing for your attention at once. Crimson's censor bar joke might honestly be why our Fear and Hunger playthrough was my most popular series in... like five years?

Baldur's Gate 3, Mars Vice, and Threefold Recital are all due to wrap up next week, so I'm finally scheduling Yakuza 6 and Entropy Centre for public releases, now with this kickass new art!

Thank you for your continued support.