Weekly Update - Ludum Dare week! (Patreon)

How do you guys feel about these updates? Are they helpful to you? I notice in my stats they don't get a whole lot of views/engagement compared to my number of patrons and I figured some of that is down to people largely just trusting me to Get On With It™ but I presume you get email notified about these sorts of posts. I don't want to be flooding you guys with emails you don't care about, since I'm posting an average of 2-3 times a week at the moment.

That said, where am I at this week? Preparing for Ludum Dare 40!

I'm pretty excited as this will be my 10th Ludum Dare in a row since I first started with LD30. It's also my first one in a while I can really give full attention to as I'm not traveling to Dundee on the Monday or going to a wedding or anything else. 

I'll be streaming at twitch.tv/shaunjs all weekend and probably producing a timelapse of the footage. YouTube viewers have often asked for a breakdown/analysis of the weekend and what went well and what didn't. So I might also try that as a way of testing the waters and refining the type of content I'm looking to make more of.

In the meanwhile though I'm going to be doing a Platformer episode this week as well. On the Friday I'll only be releasing a Ludum Dare Stream announcement of some kind to my YouTube subs, but $5 folk here will get the Platformer episode as soon as it's ready. So if all goes to plan you'll get this one a full week ahead! Which would probably then become the pattern going forwards, although Christmas might well interfere.

Speaking of Christmas I expect I'll be taking the week itself off, but I doubt any more than that. So I'll still be doing videos throughout the holiday season =)

-S