Now that the obvious is out of the way, I suppose some explanation is in order. This blog is intended to work in conjunction with my YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/EmeraldSuzaku) to provide all sorts of Let's Play-style goodness.
While the main video content will be uploaded to YouTube, this blog will serve as an outlet for additional news, discussion, announcements, and other things related to the YT channel. Essentially, anything that doesn't make it onto the channel will pop up here, as will announcements of new content for the channel.
The Roadmap
For the moment, the YouTube channel has a limited amount of content, and it's been a while since the last update. I'm working on a pseudo-relaunch, and the first steps have been taken--the channel has been renamed, and the general plan has been laid out, and this blog is now online. I'm also in the middle of encoding a roughly hour-and-a-half-long video for the Space Marine Let's Play. I plan to finish that LP out to give myself time to get everything straightened out for the new format.
The goal is pretty simple. I aim to provide regular updates in a more structured format, taking full advantage of YouTube having removed the length limit on my videos. I'd like to update a couple days a week, with a total of 2-4 hours of new content. Exactly how practical that goal is has yet to be determined, but we'll see.
While I'm finishing Space Marine, I will also be ramping up to the first actual Travelogue--the game has been chosen, and will be announced closer to the first upload. I estimate that Space Marine is roughly halfway complete, which would imply that I still have another 4-6 hours to go. The more I suck, the longer it will take, so let's hope I find some skill somewhere in there :P
Ultimately, the Space Marine LP is a learning experience. It's been getting me used to VirtualDub and AVIsynth, for example, as well as tweaking my audio setup for audio capture. As such, updates will likely still be irregular as I continue to tweak my process and experiment with other things. The goal is to have everything basically set before I start in earnest. It turns out that the editing process takes just as long--if not longer!--than the playtime that generated the video. And that's not even counting the encoding and uploading that I let run when I'm asleep or not home. If something doesn't work out, or settings need adjusting, or something else rears its head that I don't notice until after I upload, it's rather time-intensive to fix. So, please bear with me while I streamline things.
But anyway, enough about that. That should give the whole two of you that stumble across this place an idea as to what's in the pipe, and the direction things are intended to go in the future. I'll type up another post specifically addressing the new Space Marine upload in a bit.
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