Announcing my new thing! (Patreon)

Hello! I'm back after a nice big break. I got married, had a holiday, and played some video games. As promised, Patrons weren't charged for August - part of my guarantee that you'll only pay me when I release content.

I also started production on my new GMTK series: Developing*. And this evening I'm releasing a quick update video to announce it to the world. You can check it out now. 

Basically, it's a series about me making my own game. Each episode will be one step in the journey - episode one will be about learning Unity, episode two will be about prototyping mechanics, episode three will be... well, I don't know! I haven't got that far yet!

As I say in the video, this is all super new for me. And so I'll need to adjust how I work to compensate. Currently I'm thinking that I'll work on the game for 3 days a week and work on videos for the other 2. Let's see how that goes!

Also, other videos are coming. An episode of On the Level featuring one of my favourite games of 2021 should be out next week - it was a mammoth 2 hour interview again, so getting it down to a pithy 25 minute watch has been challenging! I'm almost certainly doing a Boss Keys on Metroid Dread. Plus, classic GMTK episodes are coming soon, too. Other projects, like the Design Icons podcast, are probably 2022 affairs.

Busy busy!

For now, I wanted to give a huge thank you for sticking around. This has been a strange year for me - I've struggled with motivation, purpose, and identity with my channel. But this feels like the right direction. 

Cheers

Mark

*Thanks to GMTK Patron Eir on the Discord for the name idea!