MrBiffo

EARLY ACCESS: ROCK STARE ATE MY HAMSTER

Sorry I never got this to you sooner, but this is the last Let's Play of the Digi Level 2 hiatus (for now anyway) - as next week there'll be a brand new proper ep of Digitiser Level 2! It's a good one. And we should have it with you Monday/Tuesday-ish. 

I SHARED THE WRONG VERSION WITH YOU!

That was still unfinished... This is the right one. Minor differences, mind.

UPPER TIERS EXCLUSIVE: RETURN TO NIVVIN'S PRANNY

Hello, you lot. Thought I'd share an early sneak peek at the next ep of Digi Level 2. This has been far, far too much work for what amounts to four minutes of the episode... But aaaaaanyway... 

This was from the day when main camera was out of focus, so  I was going to abandon it completely, but Sanja insisted it was too good to lose.

I'm glad she did, because it features Mr Hairs - who's otherwise not in the main series, and it gives a nice injection of chaos. Fortunate...

MONDAY UPDATE

Morning, y’all. Happy happy Monday.

So, this week is primarily a ‘Digi’ week for me – which means, among other things, getting properly stuck into the next ep of Digi Level 2.

The final three episodes are going to be tricky, because they all require additional filming. Some of it we’ll be doing on greenscreen, but we’ve also got some location filming to complete.

We’ve hopefully lined up a rather exciting location for the final episode – fingers crossed – t...

EARLY ACCESS: THE HOBBIT - Mr Biffo Plays

All this video game content is making our head spiiiiiiiin! New 'other'-type video soon. In the meantime, here's Sanja and I eventually getting around to playing The Hobbit on the Speccy (following the usual 15-minutes of waffle). The waffle was so severe that there's actually some outtakes coming tomorrow for the Upper Tiers...

SAVE THE DATE

Sorry. Last update for today.

Specifically, save these dates: 21 Sep–22 Sep. Or the 21st at least. Sanja and I have been invited to be guests of honour at the teletext 50th anniversary celebration in Cambridge. I'll be on at least one panel. Details will follow, I'm sure, but it might be a nice...

EARLY ACCESS: BIFFO & SANJA PLAY TABOO (NES)

I guess we're doing Let's Plays now! We're bridging the gap between episodes of Digi Level 2 by looking at some of gaming's weirder history, starting with this pointless exercise.

According to urban legend, Taboo managed to correctly predict the deaths of several players. Can we use it to learn whether World War 3 is imminent? Sanja joins me to find out! Again: the footage in this video is NOT gameplay!!!!! Probably.

We won't be doing a premiere, but this will be going up for ever...

DIGI AUDIO UPDATE!

If you've been missing her angelic tones, there's plenty of Sanja in this podcast ramble, in which we talk about our plans, what we've been watching, listening to, and playing... and explain why we've not managed a BYAMPOD of late. Brain... not... working... 

MONDAY, MONDAY...

Morning, Patrons! Happy Monday. So… I got a bit burnt out on Ep 3 of Digi Level 2. Which is an understatement. I was baaaaaadly brain-mashed towards the end of last week.

Plus, we’ve really, really missed doing our regular Digi videos, and we’re getting a touch of cabin fever, so one of our out-and-about vids will be the next thing you get from us. We also owe you a Q&A, so we’ll aim to get that shot too. The regular vids are relatively easy to edit compared to Digi Level 2,...

OUTSIDER ART?

Hello, Upper Tier Patrons. Been a while since it was just us, and I thought I’d have a rummage around in my head, and share with you what I find. Been a while.

I’m kind of knackered. I slept until 9.45 this morning – which is unheard of for me. The edit of Digi Level 2 Ep 3 really took it out of me, and it didn’t feel so much like sleep as more shutting down for repairs.

Anyhow… I’m starting work on Ep 4 – the assembly is done, though there’s a new intro still to f...

EARLY ACCESS: DIGI LEVEL 2 EP 2

Morning, Patrons! Well, here’s Ep 3 of Digi Level 2. As I’ve said elsewhere, this was a debilitating edit, and – though it’s my favourite one of the series thus far – I’m not entirely sure why.

Certainly, the music video was a challenge. As was the intro section. And then there was too much smoke in the Hall of Games with Dan, which made it a headache to grade. And there was some complex animation….

None of this is a complaint btw. I mostly do this to myself, because...

MONDAY RAMBLEWAFFLE

Happy Monday, gang.

So. Feeling a tad overwhelmed as we start a new week, juggling Digi Level 2 while simultaneously trying to get day job work done. Basically, pretty much every waking hour I seem to be doing one or the other. Or running around for my mother. Or – last Friday anyway - being a “hair model”.

That was a novel experience. I hadn’t anticipated that I’d have to stand in front of an entire class of students and “give them a twirl”. I mean, I was old enough...

THE ONCE AND FUTURE DIGI

Hello, gang. Thanks for sticking around for another month.

So, another week at the Digi Level 2 coalface. I hope you’re enjoying it, even if it wasn’t what you originally signed up to Patreon for. We will get back to the regular stuff soon enough – BYAMPOD, the main channel etc. We're desperately missing making our little travel/history vids.

So, thanks for bearing with us.

Sanja’s currently finishing her assembly edit of Ep 5, while ...

DIGI: INTO THE FUTURE

Happy Monday, all. So, Ep 2 of Digi Level 2 is out in the world now. The first week since Ep 1 dropped has been a rollercoaster. 99% of it has been highs. I don’t know if that means it’s been less rollercoaster than railway viaduct, but you get the gist.

Ep 3 will be delayed while we get it finished. There will be something going up on Sunday – I *might* do a Let’s Play as an experiment, but we’ll see.

Aside from anything, I want to give the first two (three, if you incl...

DON'T WORRY!

Hola, you lot. Thank you for all your nice words on my post earlier. I'll try to reply to them all if I can over the weekend. I just wanted to say... honestly, it's no biggie ultimately. Not for us. We're fine, and it's not going to take away from how blown away we are by the reaction to Digi Level 2. 

We were just getting comments here and there about the person in question - which began on FB, and then one on Kickstarter, because Episode 1 had come out. He's in Ep 2 as well, whic...

UPPER TIERS BLOG: A DIFFICULT POST

Ep 1 of Digi Level 2 has done well. I wasn’t sure, what with it being on a new channel, but as I write this we’re heading to about 7,000 views in less than a week. That’s not earth-shaking by the standards of many, but for us it’s a lot.

More importantly, the reception to the first episode has been overwhelmingly positive. I hadn’t expected that. Digitiser The Show was well loved, but as many people hated it as liked it. I expected much the same for Level 2. Maybe more so, giv...

EARLY ACCESS: DIGI LEVEL 2 EPISODE 2

You weren't expecting this so soon were you? Well... surprise! Here you go: In our Pong special, we look back at the early days of games consoles, and Binatone's Pong clone. We also debate ZX Spectrum games, Quang reveals the rarest Sega Genesis/Mega Drive of all time, and Biffo subjects Gannon and Larry Bundy Jr to Pong For Real...

Hope you like it!

This will be early access until SATURDAY, so watch it quick if you want to see it early, because once I schedule it you'll no longer...

PATREON EXCLUSIVE: DON'T HATE ME

Morrrrrning, Patreon chums.

So, Digi Level 2 is on almost 3,000 views, having gone up at 6pm last night.

Suffice to say – while I know that’s still a pittance compared to lots of our peers - our regular videos don’t get that many views that quickly. Given we’re putting Digi Level 2 out on what is essentially a new channel, we’re pretty pleased with that. You lot do love your old games.

Sanja and I have been talking in recent days, and we’ve enjoyed this project e...

TONIGHT - IT HAPPENS!

Happy Sunday, Patrons! Just a reminder, for those who haven't seen it, that DIGI LEVEL 2 episode 1 goes live at 6pm UK time TONIGHT.

Gannon and I will be in the chat/comments during the premiere, if you want to come and say hello.

We'll have an exclusive sneak peek at something from Ep 2 on Patreon this evening...

WE'RE RUBBISH!

Hello, Patrons. Well, apologies for being rubbish.

Hopefully Digi Level 2 is going some way to making up for our lack of regular videos. If you’ve watched the first episode you’ll see what a monumental editing task it is, and we’re both working on different episodes.  

Alongside that, I still need to work, so I’m juggling the two, which isn’t leaving any time for...

EARLY ACCESS: DIGITISER LEVEL 2 - EPISODE 1!

Well, here it is at last. Hope you all enjoy it. 'Nuff said.

THE EVE OF RELEASE

Hello, you lot. Right! Sorry for the silence this month, but we've been working very very hard on Digi Level 2.

Ep 1: almost done. Will be with you early tonight or tomorrow. Or you can wait until Sunday to revel in the whole premiere thing.

I just posted the below for backers, but thought you'd like to see it too:

So here we are. Ep 1 of Digi Level 2 will be out within the next couple of days for backers. It’s very close to being done. There’s one tiny thing left to fil...

LONG SHOT HELP REQUEST

Do any of you have access to an MB Microvision? If so, do you think you might be able to capture some footage of the screen? We have one, but it's so old that the screen is very, very faint. Not a dealbreaker if not, but email digitiser2000@gmail.com if you think you can help.

ALL THE NEWS

Hey y'aaaaall.

So, just to say… it’s looking like January might appear a bit light on main channel Digi content and BYAMPOD.

Basically, we were intending to film and record this week, but we’re deep into getting Digi Level 2 completed, and we’re on a roll with it (if you were on the Biffo’s Brain call the other night, you got a sneak peek at some of the animations). Having discussed, we’re reluctant to break off and lose momentum, at least until Ep 1 is done (current a...

GAME FOOTAGE HELP UPDATE

Hello all. Just a quick one to say hang in there with the game footage stuff. A LOT of you responded with offers of help, so it's going to take me a while to go through all the emails. I'll try and give as many of you as I can a chance to help. Need to finish some work tomorrow, but I'll aim to get back to everyone by Friday. If you've not heard from me... don't panic. It's just going to take me a while to work out exactly what I need, and who to ask for what.

Thanking you all! You're a...

URGENT GAMING HELP NEEDED!

Sorry - inundating you with posts today. Quick request: I need help capturing game footage, across a variety of formats. 

I'm not bothered about it being on the original hardware - emulation is fine - but would anybody be up for helping with this? I can farm it out to a few of you so you're not overwhelmed. I can't afford to pay you - sorry, I know that's shit - but obviously we'll give you a credit on the episodes, and find another way to repay you. 

Send us an email at...

DIGITISER2000 - BACK UP

Alrighty. I listened to the feedback: Digi2000 is back up! Minus the offending post from APRIL 2017 FOR PITY'S SAKE. 

I'll be putting the new eps on there, though I'll probably be giving a written behind-the-scenes commentary on here and Kickstarter. 

Anyway! Thanks for the advice. See? I do listen! 

EARLY ACCESS: DIGI LEVEL 2 - THE PREQUEL

And so, here we go... this is just the tip of the iceberg, of course. This will be going out for everyone later this week, but you get it early. The Digi Level 2 prequel... 'Frrrg Rrrrf!' - perfect for those of you missing Supernatural World!

WHAT'S COMING YOUR WAY...

Hello, gang. Hope you all feel rested after the last couple of weeks. As Christmases go, it passed without too much stress. After all the build-up and prep, we managed to take some proper time off over the last week, and it was much needed.

So! Onwards!

We're aiming for the first ep of Digi Level 2 by the end of this month, but there should be a sort of 'prequel' later this week on the n...

HAPPY NEW YEAR - QUESTIONS WANTED!

Hello, gang. Hope you all had the Christmas you needed. Ours was about as quiet as they're ever going to be. We ended up cooking pretty much all the food on Christmas Eve - including the turkey - and that made Christmas Day a lot more manageable. 

Also: some of you were just stupidly generous and kind to us - you know who you are - and we're very, very, very grateful for the gifts we got from you. We got a bit emosh in fact. THANKYOU. Again.

Aaaaanyway. We want to start the 2...