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Who's Commanding Shepard in Mass Effect? (Patreon)
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Hi everyone! Thanks for your patience on this one. I've spent the last few weeks working on the biggest, longest, most analytical video in GMTK's history: Who's Commanding Shepard in Mass Effect?
Faced with the prospect of being stuck inside for months on end, I decided that I might as well focus my extra free time on a worthwhile project - so decided to make a big video about a franchise that has always intrigued me: Mass Effect.
This video has gone through many changes. At one point it was going to be a miniseries, at another point it was going to be a typical game-by-game analysis. But everything came together when I found the focus for the video: the shared ownership of Commander Shepard.
What does it mean for an RPG where both the player and the character jostle for control over the character's personality, identity, and decisions?
(I know I said before that I was planning to release multiple videos, but ultimately decided that it was better as just one. Things change a lot when I'm making stuff, sorry!)
Anyhoo. It was a big project but I really enjoyed the whole process. I'm certainly not going to shift to being one of these YouTubers who cranks out 4 hour vids on the regular (I'll leave that to Joseph, Noah, etc!) but I'd like to do one of these a year, maybe. In 2019 it was 40 minutes on Hollow Knight, in 2020 it was 50 minutes on Mass Effect, in 2021... we'll see.
I'm going to take a week off now. I haven't really stopped since the beginning of the year, and so I need a quick breather. Play some Last of Us 2, catch up on some other games, and hopefully see some family and friends... at a safe distance, naturally.
And then I'll be back for the Game Jam, and normal GMTK service.
Cheers, speak soon, thanks for your support
Mark
