I'm well aware that it looks insane up here because I still have the Macbook,
that screen the iMac's back there and then this screen, but this is
what i'm dealing with for today so I can do the stream
hello everyone and welcome to Wednesday. As I mentioned yesterday, today I'm doing a really interesting stream that uh,
I've never done before, where i'm going to be building an RPG Maker game live. I have no idea how it's going to go. Um,
there is some there's some level of concern, but I think it'll be fine because
again, it's super casual.
I have only used RPG Maker, if i'm being honest, twice
in the last five years five years ago when I built that game when we showed off RPG Maker MV, and then back in
September of last year
when we went to China and I made one of the vlog days in RPG Maker.
So, it's not exactly,
you know, super fresh, but hopefully it'll come back to me as I start using it.
But i'm also not like an RPG Maker power user
I'm just a guy who had experience with it over the years,
especially whenever I was um in middle and high school. I loved it, so, uh if anyone is expecting, you know greatness
the expectation should be set lower but I... I'm fairly familiar with it. I can get my... I can get around it pretty well
So, I think it'll still be fun
and it'll still be a
A good stream. The hard part is just getting everything set up
and that goes for any stream I do over here; any of the First20 stuff, any uh
Morning. Mario. Of course, the streams are harder to set up, there's more equipment involved than Morning Mario, but
I'm setting it up now, recording this clip because the camera
is also the uh face cam
So, uh I'm gonna get it all
where it needs to go and then um
I guess the vlog will resume in x many hours
When the stream is over and hopefully it will have gone well.
Hopefully
I'm allergic to hippos. I found out the hard way after spending too much time with my first hippo, Raxi.
I'm, so sorry to hear that. I once had a hippo [wheezing]
I can't do this. I have to keep taking breaks
I gotta keep taking breaks
I get i'm getting so dizzy just trying to read the dialogue.
God it's been a long day. It's been such a long day.
Thomas says: in the middle of this epic quest, these people are just talking about the thing.
This is wild. Seriously i'm gonna hyperventilate. I need a second.
Ten hours, ten hours. Started at 1 finished at 11
That was a little longer than I thought
It would go a little bit because whenever I made the game a few years ago
It took six to seven and I figured it would take longer than that
Because I was like, well, this is going to be different because i'm also going to be interacting with chat
And I knew that it was going to be a little difficult to like
Take the ideas and work them in
but I was thinking 8 to
9
That was close
That was close. Chaz said he knew. Chaz was like "I knew from the start"
"It would be ten hours" and I was like, all right
but yeah ten hours, um...
So the good news
The good news is we made a game
We did it we made a game start to finish
There's no bad news. That's just the good news
The good news is we uh, we we made the game. It was it was definitely difficult at times. Um,
Because there's a bunch of ideas coming in and you're trying to find spots to put them
and you know
Some people's words were pretty easy to make them work. Um other people's
Were much
Harder, and you know, I definitely took the liberties occasionally with some of the words
but for the most part I tried to stick to them and um
Yeah, there was there's definitely points where it was
It was hard to uh to do certain things, you know
I would take the time to sometimes I would take a lot of time working on a thing
and then other times there was just a lot of words that had been in my list for a while and i'm like I
am not finding anywhere to put these
So I would do like these really bizarre like lore dumps
Where I just I would talk at length either in an NPC or like something you would read
It would just have like this really bizarre
Message, you know would include some of the the words that people sent in
but
You know we did get through a game and uh by the end it was playable, um there
I did so I did this a little differently than how I would normally do this if I was doing it
Not live if I was not doing it live and I was actually making something
I would test a lot as I went
And I didn't do that. I just tried to be really thorough in you know, the stuff that I was
doing the the programming for
And trying to make it perfect
As best I could so when we got to the testing phase it would just be pretty smooth
And honestly for the most part it was there was actually not too many issues, but there's a few
Um, but we you know, we got through it and I think the most important thing
Is that I laughed harder
than any day
this year
I laughed so hard
Like i'm sore from laughing and probably also short from talking for 10 hours. Um
I cried multiple times laughing just because
The stuff that was written was ridiculous. And and by the time we got to the end where we finally were like, all right
Everything's set. We're going to actually go through and like do a little play test
Oh my god
It was a reminder of stuff that we had written like earlier in the day and to see it all flow together. I was
I was losing my mind. Um
Chat was laughing so hard
And it was just a good day
It was it was a very very good day. It was very very funny. This is the sort of thing that
I would not do very often
But would I do it again? Yeah
I totally would um, it's a it's a big commitment to stream for 10 hours
But I got to tell you the day really went by like that I was so into it and it was so
Yeah, I stayed busy
um that the the hours really flew by
and uh
It was just it was enjoyable
It really was now it's not done done
Like it's it's basically done. But um, I stopped short of doing like the very very end
And my plan
Is uh off camera i'm gonna write the very very end. So basically the very last part of the game
And then i'll, uh, i'll probably do another test play on my own time just to make sure everything is fine
and then i'll export the game and uh
My plan is to release a first 20
Where I play through the game similar to how I did five years ago with RPG Maker MV
And when I do that I'll also release this VOD
This 10-hour VOD which shows the creation of the game start to finish
And then I'll release the game, so people can actually play it themselves
and uh
Hopefully they'll enjoy it
Hopefully they'll they'll have fun with it. But um
Man what a day
What a day
It's 11. It's a little after 11 now
And um I gotta get to bed
Because tomorrow
Is Breakfast Stream
It's been it's been a hard two weeks because we did extra streams last week with first 20 and super mario
And now you know this week we did uh RPG Maker
So it's it's been it's been busy. Not not to mention last week we were busy with a bunch of other things
Too. Um, but it's been really rewarding lately
It really has I I these are there's more streams in the past few weeks than i've ever done at once
and um
It's it's something I really enjoy doing. The the big downside for me is that I don't have things permanently set up to do streams
um
On this side of the room and that's that's hard because the actual setup
Is lengthy, like to move equipment over here and then to run cables and to do all that stuff. That part sucks
but if I had things set up in such a way where
It was always just set up and I just see the button. I would be much more willing to do
Um solo stream type stuff more often just because uh, it is enjoyable. It's actually really fun
probably not for 10 hours, but
It's fun to do
All right
That's it. I'm done. I had a great one if you were there and you got to enjoy it live
I I feel like you you had
You had the best experience
You really did and i'm gonna put this on on youtube
Um, but if you weren't there and you can watch it on twitch, you don't mind i'd recommend watching it on twitch
So you have chat also
chat won't be on screen obviously for um
For the for the youtube version, so you'll miss out on that
so I think chat was kind of helpful, but you can still watch it and see me making stuff on uh
You know on the youtube version but I think getting a chance to experience the insanity with chat is is a
Really helpful experience in this particular case
and will there be things you don't understand if you don't watch the 10 hour stream, I mean
yeah, but also there's things that don't make sense anyway, so [sneezes]
Excuse me. I sneezed a lot tonight
All right, seriously i'm done. I gotta go to bed. Thank you all so much for watching
Thank you all so much for being here today. It's fun
And as always, let's meet back tomorrow
shall we [Music]