A YEAR OF SPRINGS was on tv

so actually yesterday A YEAR OF SPRINGS was on tv (for like a very very short bit, maybe a minute).

the picture's a screenshot from the show!

the experience was actually pretty rough for me though so i don't think i would do it again. the people who came to interview me were kind of pushy & even when they were asking questions, it felt like they had very specific answers they wanted me to reply with (so kept asking the questions but in different ways to try to get me to answer how they wanted, i guess), and in the end the sections they showed on the show were not the ones i would have gone with myself. 

(also one of the staff who came to my home to film turned off my humidifier/air purifier without asking me........ i have it on for my guinea pigs....... i would have turned it off if they asked me to but they just pressed the power button without saying anything which kind of annoyed me................)

BUT it was an interesting experience i guess and the nhk staff gave me macarons when they visited so there was, at least, that! and i can now cross "be on tv" off my checklist (:

what was interesting to me was how fast-paced everything is (or last-minute might be a better way to describe it). up until the day before i was still getting emails asking me what copyright should be shown while gameplay was being shown and they mentioned they didn't know what clips they would use yet either. it was all very hectic!

now i can get back to my own regular programming though and focus on game dev again!

edit: aaaand i just noticed they left out the final S in A YEAR OF SPRINGS on their web article so i emailed them to ask if they can fix it so the title of my game is spelt right 🥲

edit 2: oh i forgot to mention the whole time they told me it was going to air on feb 14 but i only found out on the weekend before that it was actually airing on the 15 (and that was from the website, not from the staff!!!) and only on monday, two days before it aired and a few days after the programme was announced online, did i get an email from the staff telling me that the airing date had changed...

edit 3: something nice came out of this! one of the presenters on the show did a youtube live after and talked about A YEAR OF SPRINGS with some very kind comments so i feel overall better about the tv experience too: https://m.youtube.com/live/y72TbUKwbdY