The JackalMan

#DesignDiary Day 678! Making good progress on the video, and I think it's quite likely looking at a Saturday release. In the meantime, I've been sculpting in Blender for the first time, after finally figuring out how it works.

#DesignDiary Day 677! Recorded audio for the next video, but couldn't edit because I realised I forgot to record footage in advance! Got it now, and it's a short video, so it hopefully shouldn't take long to produce.

#DesignDiary Day 676! Finally started a script that I'm liking, although it's somewhat shorter than I originally expected it to be. Likely to be finished tomorrow. I've also been practicing in Blender, and I think I've finally figured out how UVs works (sort of).

#DesignDiary Day 675! Did a stream, collaborated with some viewers, had an overall fun (if short) time. I've since tried to begin writing a script for my next review, but nothing sounds quite right. Unfortunate.

#DesignDiary Day 674! Didn't get as much done today as I would've liked.

#DesignDiary Day 673! Started testing Soap for his review. I'm looking to do a stream tomorrow, which will probably be partly Crossworlds and partly testing him out.

#DesignDiary Day 672! Released a video, then got to work practicing texturing in Blender. Chose an easy model to start with, and who could be simpler than Minecraft Steve?

In today's episode of Ring Racers, I took on the Skate Cup!

Let me put its record straight: this late, second-rate Cup made me extremely irate, with its spate of courses made purely to frustrate. Abate any hopes for competent racing, or else you'll be made to wait.

youtu.be/L2Lwe8PDE50

#DesignDiary Day 671! Nearly finished with the current video. A few tweaks here and here, and it'll be done: could release it today, but I'll be leving it until tomorrow.

#DesignDiary Day 670! Finished the next video's script, and I'll be recording and editing it tomorrow.

#DesignDiary Day 669! First third of the next video's script is now complete. I'm liking how it's coming along.

#DesignDiary Day 668! Stream did well, and I enjoyed myself quite a bit. Very good numbers, and constant updates in the chat - very strong stats, and successful in-game too. Recorded footage for the next episode, and already begun drafting a script.

#DesignDiary Day 667! Happy with how today's video turned out. Going to do a livestream tomorrow, and then record the next episode's footage.

In today's episode of Dr Robotnik's Ring Racers, I took on the Genesis Cup! Far from being the exciting introduction of a new frontier of racing, it's more of a penultimate act: less Genesis, more Ephistle to Philemon.

What do you mean, "the name comes from a games console?"

youtu.be/UGox74uPt3o

#DesignDiary Day 666! Actually quite a relevant number for the current video. It's coming along very nicely, although audio is being a bit of a pain - it'll definitely release tomorrow though, as everything else is already complete.

#DesignDiary Day 665! Scripting finished, voiceover recorded, and significant chunk of editing complete. A productive day!

#DesignDiary Day 664! Recorded footage and started scripting for the next video. It's an interesting script, though I'm not sure whether everyone will like it or if it'll work as I intend.

#DesignDiary Day 663! The Archetypes video has done very, very well, which is good - makes up for all the breaks and droughts I've had over the last few months. I'm also glad that everyone's having fun with the system, as I'm seeing a lot of people try to apply it to mods they like/contributed to.

#DesignDiary Day 662! Finally, finally managed to release this video, freeing me up to do other things again. I'm excited to return to my usual schedule, athough I am currently feeling quite ill.

I've played many SRB2 mods for this channel. Inevitably, you begin to see similarities between mods in a sample set this large, and I've used these similarities to construct seven character archetypes.

Want to learn what separates the Flyer from the Maverick? Then watch on...

youtu.be/02tFSgadMJI

#DesignDiary Day 661! The next video is (finally) nearly done - only about a fortnight later than scheduled! If nothing else, having everything that could go wrong indeed go wrong in the span of one project has motivated me to follow better professional practices in the future.

#DesignDiary Day 660! The first pass edit is now finally done, for the most part at least, and I'm hopeful that I can lock in and get everything done tomorrow. That probably won't happen, but I really want to get it done by Monday.

#DesignDiary Day 659! Moving onto my laptop after a devastating crash on my PC has sped up work on the video, and I'm now 24 minutes into the first pass edit. Hope to finish that tomorrow, then I can hopefully release by Sunday evening.

#DesignDiary Day 658! 17 minutes into the next video, and completed a very successful stream, although I found out that my chat was so small as to be illegible - trying to fix that before tomorrow's stream.

I'm hoping to have the video out by the end of the week: we'll see if that comes to pass.

#DesignDiary Day 657! Hit the 12 minute mark after reinstalling JDownloader, which is already proving to be more reliable than youtube-dl ever was. Crashes are still common, but at least I can actually get the additional footage I need to continue my work.

#DesignDiary Day 656! Productive day everywhere outside of working on the next video. Progress is stalling due to Premiere crashing and youtube-dl not working - edited about 6-7 minutes, but could've done more.

Started work on the reshuffle, beginning with new overlays and thumbnails for streams.

#DesignDiary Day 655! The script is complete, and the unedited VO has come out to just over 30 minutes - a lengthy episode. We'll see how quickly editing comes along.

Today's stream was very successful! Long periods of high viewers (relatively speaking). Bodes well for the future.

#DesignDiary Day 654! Script is looking strong at 8 pages. There's still a little more to go, so I think my guess of nine pages will be about right.

I've been playing some Pokemon Red on emulator, and woof - the early-game grind to get ready for Brock is making me dream of the EXP Share.

#DesignDiary Day 653! Continued work on the script. I'm definitely at least halfway through at this point, currently sitting at six pages, but I can imagine it getting to around nine. Luckily, the video will most like be reused footage, which will save time in the editing process.

#DesignDiary Day 652! I'm making good progress on the next video's script. I'm about 35-50% of the way through it, and it currently comes out to four full pages, so it'll probably end up being a decent size.