Heyo, lovely humans!
Next Friday we'll be replacing think tanks with a new format where I discuss the materials i'm researching for the upcoming series and how to distill them into content for the show. Think tanks as we know them now will become a spur-of-the-moment thing that we do when we have a really good topic to talk about with you guys (like deciding on a short story premise).
However, I'm noooot really sure what to call this new style of think tank. I'd like it to be thematic an...
2018-11-02 18:08:08 +0000 UTC
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Hello, helpful humans!
This time around things are (yet again) a little more podcast-y, as I dive into the convoluted logic I had to riddle out in order to devise a premise for this short story. This definitely isn't set in stone yet—it still bears some discussion with the competition winner—but I'm in love with it at the moment and I hope I'm able to move forward with it confidently.
I'm also curious for your opinions. What do you think of this premise? Are there any angles...
2018-11-01 19:07:06 +0000 UTC
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Hello, helpful humans! How you're all enjoying the spookiest day of the year~
As for me, I got all my creepy jubilations out of the way last weekend. Now I'm just excited to be getting back to work.
It's been a little while now since I've just been able to buckle down and work hard on making my art. But as of today, that changes. I'm finally going to be in position to get that video production cycle turning again, and I am stoked about it. Especially because this ...
2018-10-31 20:19:12 +0000 UTC
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Hello, all you helpful, loveliful humans!
I am officially one single step away from sending this bookmark off to the printers and putting our first truly custom piece of merch in your hands! I just have to figure out which of these I like best for the final product...
Alright you lovely humans, have at it! Which of these is your favorite?
—Benji
2018-10-31 19:04:33 +0000 UTC
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Hello all you lovely, helpful humans!
Unfortunately, I have a little bit of bad news. We've tried asking for your opinions on which material we should share for our sneak peeks, but it turns out there isn't always enough diversity of non-spoily, interesting, 5-minute-conversation-worthy material on the burner to provide a variety of options for a vote.
So for the time being, we'll be posting more casually here and there between our scheduled posts, asking for opinions and feedback on mor...
2018-10-30 05:11:23 +0000 UTC
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Hello, helpful humans!
Big news about tonight's think tank! We want to try something new and open it up to all our patrons. Only engineers will be able to participate and type in chat, but if you're a patron, you can listen in and read the messages!
See all the details about tonight's think tank here. It'll begin at 6:30pm CDT.
If you wan...
2018-10-26 16:45:33 +0000 UTC
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We've decided on a winner for the competition, now join us as we take a look around their world!
This'll be important for anyone participating in tomorrow's think tank session, where I'll be pitching a bunch of different angles to tell the story from. If you watch this, you'll be starting off with more info than most of the other participants!
This was also a blast. I really enjoyed interviewing Adrian, and I'm so glad he was able to come on. I'll definitely be considering other arti...
2018-10-25 22:15:54 +0000 UTC
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Heyo, all you helpful humans!
Benji here, and I've just been wondering: out of everything we do here on the Tale Foundry Patreon, what matters most to you? What really makes you glad you're a part of this community? What rewards get you all excited? And on the flipside, what could you care less about?
Knowing this stuff is a massive help to us in understanding and running the show and its community. Thanks in advance for your answers!
—Benji
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2018-10-25 21:13:47 +0000 UTC
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Hello hello, helpful humans!
We've got a think tank coming up in two days, and this one's going to be something pretty special. This time we're not only discussing story ideas again; we're discussing story ideas for for the setting created by the winner of our competition!
If we're lucky, he might even join the discussion at some point during the call!
As always, we'll be holding the think tank on this Friday, October 26th, from ...
2018-10-24 21:13:29 +0000 UTC
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Hello, lovely squishy human meat people!
Sorry I missed this yesterday! There's been a ridiculous amount of stuff going on in the background/periphery of Tale Foundry and Chloe's currently on a week-long (maybe even a bit longer than that) break, so the whole show + community is resting on my shoulders again. I'm just doing my best to make sure I'm at least aware of everything I'm juggling, even if I fail here and there to actually do the dang juggling.
So much is happening righ...
2018-10-24 20:46:39 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the work week, helpful humans! I hope your Monday is treating you well.
At last, we're finally done judging for the competition. We have our champion. That means we can actually begin work on the short story, which means we have something to share again!
There are a few ways to approach this, though. What'll it be this time, fellow fleshies?
—Benji
2018-10-22 18:10:13 +0000 UTC
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Heyo, helpful humans!
Nothing special to report here. The weekend's just coming to a close and we'll be back into it tomorrow. I spent a lot of time basking in the presence of friends and reading good literature over the last two days. It was exactly what I needed. The energy is coming back to me and I'm excited to get cracking on this short story.
How did you spend the weekend? Anything lovely happen? Any incredible streaks of productivity or unexpected larks? Tell all.
2018-10-21 22:28:17 +0000 UTC
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Hello, helpful human helpers!
Since no sneap peep is going up today, I just wanted to spend this slot on another little progress update. None of the fancy footwork we do in our weekly progress updates, just a little notice about what's going on on our end.
First, we've finally finished concepting the Beautiful Machines bookmark! Behold, the final concept, complete with an appropriately-cut edge (the edge it'll be printed with):
2018-10-18 16:06:11 +0000 UTC
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Greetings, helpful human legion~
I bring you tidings! News of great progress and good fortune. Basically, this week was pretty solid for us. Not a whole lot actually happened, but the things that did have us stoked.
So, let's hop to it, shall we?
Where are we now?
Well, let's start with our video production cycle...
We've been floating around in a kind of limbo between videos for the past couple of days while we waited for th...
2018-10-16 23:35:42 +0000 UTC
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Sorry everyone!
We're really just in limbo here, waiting on the results for the World Anvil competition to come back so we can start work on the short story video.
Once we've finished that up, we'll be back into a new production cycle and we'll have plenty to share! For now we're just drifting through a peaceful, content-less oblivion...
Thanks for being patient with us. We've got awesome, awesome stuff on the way.
—Benji
2018-10-15 22:31:28 +0000 UTC
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Hello, all you helpful humans!
I have a question for you, but first let me explain what you're seeing here...
This is the first official look at what will become the second bookmark in our DFTBA store when we release the new line of merch. It should be done well after the "Beautiful Machines" foil-stamp bookmark if my projections are correction, but I've been wrong before. We shall see.
2018-10-12 21:19:13 +0000 UTC
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Hey all y'all helpful humans!
I have a really interesting and personal question for you guys. This is something we've been wondering for a long time. The more answers we can get to this, the better our longevity and our progress to a bigger, better, faster, more efficient Foundry will become. Your feedback is really, really important to us here, and I thank you in advance for it.
Question: Why did you join our Patreon? What made you want to make the leap...
2018-10-11 16:34:34 +0000 UTC
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Sorry guys! Unfortunately today's video sneak peek is going to be delayed until tomorrow.
Look forward to it then!
I'll see you all in the think tank tomorrow!
—Benji
2018-10-11 15:46:07 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the middle of the week, all you helpful humans. The time is fast approaching to put the squeeze on your beautiful brains for new ideas, so let's talk about it!
As always, we'll be holding the think tank on this Friday, October 12th, from 6:30pm-7:30pm CST!
What's on Our Minds?
Seeing as we're still between videos (waiting for the World Anvil competition to end) and we've talked for a good long time abou...
2018-10-10 23:04:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello hello!
We're always thinking about the rewards we offer you and how we can make your experience as a part of this community more enjoyable. And finally, after some time, we came to the realization that the custom avatar reward just isn't delivering. It wasn't getting claimed very often, those who claim it very rarely use it, and it costs us time and energy to make them—time that could be better spent on producing the show!
So we discussed the matter with our community team ...
2018-10-09 22:51:52 +0000 UTC
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Hello, helpful humans, and welcome to the middle of the week! Kinda...
A lot's happened since the last update—some rough stuff, and some lovely, lovely stuff as well. I'm excited to share all of it with you guys here.
So, let's get started!
Where are we?
The list video has officially been up for a little less than a week now! If you missed it, click here to check it out!
At this point we're just waiting for the 2018-10-09 21:09:33 +0000 UTC
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Phew. Alrighty. Now that we're finally done with that list video, it looks like we're kind of in an inter-video limbo as we wait for the World Anvil competition to finish up (on the 13th). When we get there, we'll start sharing peeks of the process behind the forthcoming short story.
For now, though... more merch!
We're much of the way through the creation of our first bookmark at the moment, which I'll share more of in this week's Progress Update. There are two other pieces we'...
2018-10-08 21:16:55 +0000 UTC
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This video is long overdue.
In January of this year we opened a GoFundMe campaign for my mother who was (and to some extent still is) going through some terrible times. Because of the cascade of events and how much she was giving in terms of time and money to help the people around her stay afloat, her life was falling apart.
We didn't expect much when we opened the campaign. I remember telling Chloe that I'd be shocked and elated if we even broke $5,000. Imagine our surpri...
2018-10-08 21:01:55 +0000 UTC
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This week you guys are getting a peek at how I tweak my thumbnails! It's actually a pretty rigorous process, so there's a bit to see here! Who'd have thought something so small could take such a great amount of effort to produce.
It'll be another TEN DAYS before we get to begin any kind of work on the short story, so we'll be working on other stuff in the mean time. Some of the filler material are items long awaited by the team and the community both, so color me excited!
...
2018-10-04 23:52:07 +0000 UTC
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We have finally released the second video in our worldbuilding series with World Anvil!
If you want to join the worldbuilding competition and haven't yet, check out World Anvil's video guides here: http://bit.ly/TFCompetitionGuide
2018-10-03 23:35:40 +0000 UTC
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If you've unlocked the Name in the scrolling background text reward, prepare to find yourself in the text of the upcoming video! It'll be out within the next 24 hours!
Here. This should help you navigate:
Happy hunting!
—Benji
2018-10-03 07:18:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello and happy Tuesday, all you helpful humans!
I'll begin by saying that this week has been a vast improvement over the last several. I'll get into why deeper into the body of the post, but suffice to say that things are going to be far more positive this time around, which is a change we welcome.
I also wanna say before I get into it that I'm going to try and keep this one fairly short. I wanna save time, because provided I get enough work in this evening, the new video i...
2018-10-02 21:00:24 +0000 UTC
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Hello, fellow humans!
We had an interesting discussion with our mod team on the Discord yesterday that lead us to an interesting revelation and a question to follow up. It seems that our Custom Avatar reward has not been all that popular, considering the number of people who have unlocked it and failed to redeem it or redeemed it and never used it. It also requires a bit of time and effort on my end that might better be spent elsewhere.
So, the question:
2018-10-02 02:01:21 +0000 UTC
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Sorry guys! We're right at the end of this video's (ridiculously long) production cycle, and there's really only one final piece of the process to share: the thumbnail creation process.
So expect a timelapse + commentary on Thursday!
Thanks for everything. We're so stoked to finally get this thing to you guys. This might have been the longest, most fraught video production cycle we've been through.
Just a few more days now. Stay strong!
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2018-10-01 20:50:55 +0000 UTC
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It's only in the concepting phase still, but I thought I'd share with you guys what it looks like just to get there. Artistic collaboration is a super, super intense process.
Also, apologies if I'm a little tired and rambly this time around. We'd just returned from a patreon creator meet-up in the city, which was super fun and we'll probably be telling you guys all about in this Friday's livechat.
Hope this is enjoyable for you guys! Let me know your thoughts!
Seeya on Fri...
2018-09-27 20:46:09 +0000 UTC
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