What is Coming and What Has Come

A number of things have actually happened recently to talk about, and there might be another later this week.
First up, To the Moon started going public today. Such a good game and such a shame the audio is so broken. Fortunately it looks like this will not happen with its sequel, Finding Paradise, when I get to that because the Alternative build allows window size to be changed on Windows. (I also discovered late that there is an Alternative build for To the Moon as well.)
Second I have done and processed the recordings for Metro Last Light Redux, so they are up and scheduled to start releasing on July 23, following the Monday-Thursday schedule.
Third, and perhaps the most significant, is the release of all of the Agony recordings I have (currently, might do more). What makes this significant is there are of the review playthrough for when I reviewed it at Overclockers Club. It is also the first time I did not need to purchase the key for the game; it was provided to me as stated in the YouTube description. Not sure if this will happen again, but we'll see. There are still plenty of games in my library I want to do recordings of, but I do like the idea of getting new games to record and review like this in the future. This time there was just a very nice convergence of things that made this possible.

Some Quick Updates

Have some updates to share, including that To the Moon has been recorded and uploaded. Those videos will be going live after Bastion NG+, following the Tuesday release schedule. Even though it is a one-a-week release, I also recorded the heart rate overlay because it is an emotional game, so maybe things would happen.
Unfortunately to record To the Moon not at 640x480, I needed to run it in a virtual machine, and while that worked, the game audio is bad. There is nothing I could do about that. My microphone also went bad, which I did not realize until after I recorded four videos, so I did what I could to clean up the recordings, but there is still only so much that can be done. Now I have a new, and what should also be a better quality microphone, for future recordings.
Oh, I also made custom thumbnails for the To the Moon videos, which is something I might continue to do in the future. (Technically these are not the first videos with custom thumbnails, but you haven't seen the others yet...)

Dark Souls 2 Starting Next Week

Tomorrow the last Metro 2033 Redux video goes live, which means next week Dark Souls 2 starts releasing! Unfortunately I have not finished recording Dark Souls 2, because of other, more time sensitive projects coming up (including one I really need to get back to) but I have recorded enough to get through May. I should be able to get through the rest of the game this month though, but for now, the playlist is incomplete. In fact I need to get through it in May, because I should be back at work in June, losing a lot of potential recording time.
Anyway, after Dark Souls 2 will be Metro Last Light Redux and then Dark Souls 3. Don't have a plan for after that, but there are plenty of games in my library to go to next.
Also, I will hopefully have something pretty cool coming up in some weeks. Not sure if it will come together, but we'll see.

Metro 2033 is Up

I do so enjoy the Metro franchise of games, so it is hardly surprising it did not take me long to complete the recordings in Metro 2033 Redux. It does leave me looking forward to Metro Last Light Redux, but unfortunately I will need to get Dark Souls 2 done before that (and some number of eye-tracking only recordings). Hopefully it will not be as grueling as the first game, but at least I have a number of weeks to work on it. Well, those weeks will be interrupted by some other things, but I will get it all done.

First Update of 2018

Been busy so I hadn't fully realized I had not posted anything here in the form of an update, so here it is: I have finished Dust: An Elysian Tail and all of its videos are up and scheduled now. Dark Souls is taking longer but I am making good progress. If I am lucky maybe I can finish by the end of the week, but regardless I have plenty I can upload before Monday, when I need one to keep to my schedule.
To make things a little easier on myself, I think there are two changes I am going to make to my process. One is dropping the highlight videos for every video. Not all videos have a moment to highlight and always forcing myself to find one is kind of annoying. Then working to upload and schedule them is another layer of annoying. The other change I am considering is to just upload the CSV files I have for the heart rate data, instead of pasting it into a Google Docs sheet and then formatting it. Honestly, Google Docs is a pain to work with in this way because of how long it takes for the formatting changes to be applied, so this will really ease things for me, especially as then I will just link to a folder with all of the data instead of each individual file.
In a way these changes are already in effect, as I never cut out highlights for Dark Souls (didn't have the time to previously) and failed to put up the heart rate data for the six videos I made last year (just forgot to do it then). Now I am formalizing these changes some. I might change my mind about either or both in the future though (could see myself doing the sheets again, as I have more time, but probably not the every-video highlights).
Any way, there is an update on things.
(PS. You can expect a lot of frustration from me over Dark Souls, if that is something you might enjoy seeing. Only thing is my frustration will turn to actual anger at times, and so is not very amusing.)