Video Game Story Time

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Hi all!

We're working hard at trying to come up with some new kinds of content. This week or next week, we'll be releasing our first attempt at an opinion piece which will hopefully not be totally hated.

In the meantime, we've also been working on a video for PlayerUnknown's Battleground, which should by fun. Here's the half-finished first illustration for that video.

We thought you might like to see the sketch layer and the finished layer together for comparison purposes. The sket...

Battlefront II Video

Okay, so this one is...interesting.

We don't normally do such confrontational videos, and it feels a bit odd to do one that's, if anything, about a game that went wrong, rather than right.

That said, Kotor fell in love with the opportunity to make a bunch of Star Wars references. This one has been a lot of fun to make, even if it's outside our usual style.

We were down to the wire making this one. BretonStripes has been sick, so her voice wasn't up for recording most of this week....

Battlefront II Video Preview

Hi all!

True to our word about posting all content to backers at all levels, here's a picture from an upcoming video.

It depicts EA closing down Visceral Games. Kotor has written a very dumb video that he's slightly embarrassed about that tackles the recent Battlefront II controversy. While it's not as uplifting and inspirational as most of our stuff, it's been fun to essentially do a Star Wars parody that frames Star Wars fans as a rebel alliance, fighting against EA's greed by boycotti...

With Regards to the New Patreon Payment Controversy

Hey all, just wanted to send a quick message in light of Patreon's announcement that they'll be charging more per backer. This pertains particularly to backers at the $1 level.

From now on, Patreon expects each backer to pony up a 35 cent transaction fee for every creator they support, plus a percentage that goes straight to Patreon. This means that you'll potentially be charged $1.37 instead of $1 if you're backing us at a dollar. Similar fees apply to larger donators, but they're not as big ...

Pokemon Yellow Storybook Review

Hey all!

So here's our latest video, which has taken a long time to get right. It doesn't have a thumbnail or description yet, but we wanted to get it to you ASAP!

Fingers crossed you like it!

WIP Video

Hey all! We're really busy at the moment, but we thought you might like this little sneak peek at an upcoming video! Thanks for everything, keep being awesome!

The Story of Skyrim (Part One)

Apologies for two weeks of videos that weren't ready in time to go out early for $5 supporters. We'll make it up to you soon, but seriously, this video was finished about twenty minutes ago, we couldn't get it to you any faster!

It's been a busy week. BretonStripes was working away from home in different parts of the country for three days, so we threw this together in record time so that we could make it in time for the Switch and VR release of Skyrim.

Kotor ran an informal poll on Twit...

Story Book Etsy Discount Code

Hey all! $5 backers should have just received early access to our new video, a storybook review of the SNES Classic Mini. For the rest of you, the video should be live some time this afternoon/evening.

We have some physical books printed for anyone who wants one, which are up on Etsy for purchase. As a special thank you to all of you guys for your support, here's a discount code that should knock approximately $2 off the cost of the purchase:

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SNES Classic Mini Storybook Review

Hey all! So this took a long time to make, but it's finally here - our "review" (if you can call it that) of the SNES Classic Mini, filmed as an actual storybook reading.

Timeliness is not our strong suit, and we've been moving house this past month so everything's been really chaotic. But, finally, the video is done.

We're not sure if we did the best job of filming this, the camera angle is a bit dull, but we're learning and trying new things, so hopefully it came out okay.

For al...

Super Mario Odyssey Video

Hey all! Look at us being all topical and on time! That's a rare thing indeed!

Here's our video on Super Mario Odyssey, a day early for $5+ supporters. We very nearly didn't get this done in time as we're moving to a new house this weekend and everything's been crazy busy. Wish us luck!

Long Blooper Reel

Hey everyone, Kotor here to apologize for the delay in getting this out to you. Breton Stripes has been kicking me up the butt for a while now trying to get me to finish the audio leveling on her blooper reel - the problem I ran into was because the clips all come from different recording sessions, they all have different audio levels and some background noise.

Hopefully I've fixed it up enough to make it bearable. In my personal opinion, the video gets funnier the longer it runs for. The good...

Cuphead Video!

Hey all, here's our latest video, a little early for some of you.

We've had a really busy month with moving house, renovating our new place, BretonStripes working away from home, and various bouts of sickness. Thanks so much for being patient with us as we've worked to get out this video.

Hope you enjoy!

Thumbnail (not a video just yet, sorry)

Hey all,

The convention went okay last week, we got to meet some fun people and had a good time, but we're not going to reveal our SNES mini book just yet. We've all been a bit under the weather this week so now's not the time to try making a video that involves doing any filming.

Instead, we're working on a more traditional video, about the development of Cuphead. The audio is recorded so we're just waiting on Kotor to finish drawing the pictures, but in the meantime, here's the thumbna...

New Video/Book Sneak Peek

Hey all!

We wanted to apologise for not being able to get a video out the past few weeks. We've just bought a house and we've spent every available second trying to renovate it, plus Breton Stripes has been doing more work than normal with her day job, plus Kotor has been swamped with his freelancing. It's been a perfect storm of craziness that hasn't let up at all over the past few weeks.

To make up for it, here's a little look at our next video, a storybook review of the SNES Classic M...

How Satoru Iwata Saved Earthbound

Hi early birds! Here's the next Video Game Story Time, presented to you a few hours ahead of everyone else getting to see it!

This video will go up this evening, once we've had a chance to add a description, custom thumbnail, captions, etc, but here it is, nice and early, for you. Hope you like it!

We're thinking of doing a few more Satoru Iwata videos, as well as a more in-depth look at Earthbound, in the near future. Let us know (either here or in the comments) whether that's something...

Video Image Files

Hey $10+ subscribers! Here's a quick note to let you know that we've updated the Google Drive folder that contains all the videos' images. Have fun with them!

Super Secret WIP Undertale Video

Pssst! Here's a secret video. Don't share it around.

Over the past few months we've been working on a video about Temmie Chang, one of the artists who worked on Undertale. Temmie's been really wonderful, granting us an exclusive interview and kind of executive producing the video, giving feedback on various things.

We've made the above video, which is a draft, and there are a few things Temmie wants us to change before it goes live, but this is basically almost done at this point. ...

Sonic Mania Storybook "Review"

Hey everyone! Here's our latest video, coming to you, the lovely $5+ patrons a few hours before the rest of the world.

This was a very personal project by Kotor, who's been left with feelings after playing Sonic Mania that he really needs to get out of his system. We'll go back to doing regular videos next time, we promise!

Thanks so much for being wonderful, your support means a great deal to us. Catch you later!

The Story of Sonic Mania

Hi everyone, long time no see! Sorry for our period of relative quiet, we've been really busy lately, with some time spent with our family and elderly relatives, and with lots and lots (and lots) of day job stuff getting in the way of things.

Plus, this video is the biggest one we've ever made, so it took a week longer than we'd hoped. We had been planning to get this video out the week before Sonic Mania arrived, but it'll have to do.

Kotor is frustrated that he still hasn't had a chanc...

Once Upon a Time in Hyrule

Well this took a lot longer than expected.

We go into detail in the description on YouTube as to what delayed this video, but it's finally here! Hopefully you like it and don't think our changing Zelda canon is sacrilege. We're a bit nervous about it.

This will go up on Friday, but here it is a little early, for you, because we appreciate you.

Once Upon a Time in Hyrule Sneak Peek

Hey all! Super huge thanks to those who shared their opinions yesterday. I've been working on this funky art style, learning to try and emulate the look of the Wind Waker intro for our next video. It's actually pretty hard to nail it down, I'm a fan of nice, straight, clean lines, so anything that involves being sketchy is awkward for me.

I've decided to go for a kind of hybrid look, a little of Zelda, a little of my own style, but it's been fun to experiment. I may add some watercolour to thi...

Your Opinion Is Requested

Hi guys! Kotor here!

So we're working on a bit of a different video this week to help us catch our breath. People seemed to like our entry for the RiME contest a while back, so we're thinking of making a similar video loosely based on the standard Zelda story.

I've been playing with different art styles to try and make this video stand out - I want something quirky and storybook-esque that, I'll be honest, might be a bit quicker to draw than one of our standard videos. The hope is that, ...

Stardew Valley

Hey all!

Here's our latest video, all about Stardew Valley and its creator, Eric Barone.

One of the issues we run into with our videos is that we worry that, by telling the stories of individuals, we make it seem as if video games are the product of one key visionary. That's very rarely true (eventually we want to broaden things up and show how multiple creators benefit the same game), but in the case of Stardew Valley, it's pretty accurate. Eric Barone did pretty much everything in the...

Half Life: The Story of Gabe Newell and Valve

So by complete accident, we finished out video on the early days of Valve just as the Steam summer sale started. It almost seems deliberately topical!

There's no description or captions yet, and until tomorrow (Friday) this is going to be an Early Bird dealy, but here's the video! Enjoy!

Early Access Video

Hey guys! It feels like ages since we made a proper Video Game Story Time video, and it's nice to be back in the saddle again after some time working on contest entries, and, of course, our own Patreon.

We'd like to give you a nice early look at our next video, which you helped fund, several days before it goes up for the public as a whole. We haven't quite finished all the uploading steps yet, so there's no captions or description or even a custom thumbnail yet, but we figured we'd get this o...

Child Labor (WIP)

One of you at least thinks they've figured out what video we're working on now. This should make it a little more obvious and hopefully confirm your suspicions! You'll notice that this picture has had some colouring work done by a very talented little artist. It obviously won't appear in the final video, but we thought you'd like to see it!

WIP for the future

Hey all, Kotor here!

It's a warm, sunny day, BretonStripes and the baby are asleep, and I'm sat drawing for a future video. This one won't be finished for a while and there'll be a few more in between, but I thought you'd like to see it. Super mega bonus points for anyone who can guess what game this is for, but I don't think you'll be able to figure it out!

Once Upon a RiME Early Access

Hey guys! Kotor here, with an early video!

RiME just came out today, and while we don't currently have a device that would play it smoothly, I've been keeping an eye on it for a while - I always like to track down family friendly games that don't rely too heavily on combat and can be shared with a toddler, and this one looks pretty great!

I must have looked at a video of the game one too many times, because Facebook started displaying a load of ads about an art competition that's running...

RiME Contest Entry

Hi all! So tomorrow is the release of RiME on a bunch of systems, and they had a creative art contest that we loved the look of, so we made a special video telling the story of the first ten minutes of the game in a storybook format.

We're holding off on the release of the video until after the contest winners have been announced at the start of June (although we might make it available for Early Access patrons at the start of next week), but in the meantime, here's the first image from the vi...

Megathanks!

Hey everyone, 

Huge thanks to you all for supporting our channel! We are super grateful for all the positive feedback and amazed at the response to us setting this up. You guys rock! I maintain, we have the nicest commenters on YouTube!

Sorry there's been a bit of a delay in sending this message out, we chose a foolishly busy time to launch with lots of family birthdays and events. Kotor is working on the promised bloopers reel (check out the teaser trailer if you haven't already) a...