HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!

Hi and welcome back.

So I've got some news and an announcement

to make, very exciting developments

happening in my life.

I've been developing a video game, had to

learn how to code and how to make games

from scratch again.

Recently I've been spending every single

day making this game and I don't really

know when it's going to be finished.

It could take a very long time, so I

thought I would just put the game onto my

Patreon and reboot my Patreon.

So basically, if you join my Patreon for

$3 a month, I'll give you access to my

game that I've developed so far.

It's not finished yet, and it's very kind

of bare-bones at the moment, but I'm gonna

keep uploading new, new versions of the

game as I've made progress developing it.

So if you want to try out the game now

instead of waiting months, or maybe even

half a year, or maybe even a year until I

finally finish the whole thing, you can

join my Patreon and you can try out the

game as I make progress on it.

And I think I would make uploads— I would

upload the new version of the game at the

end of every week, so you can see kind of

like the journey of how the game was made,

going from the beginning where it looks

kind of bare, and towards the end where it

would look more completed and finished.

And you can also kind of beta test the

game as well, I guess, and you could tell

me if there's any bugs, you could try and

help me fix any bugs, you could make

suggestions and give me ideas to make the

game better and give me some feedback.

So if you want to know what kind of game

it is, basically it's, it's a bit like a

side-scrolling 2D platformer action with

weapons, and it's going to have a bit of a

story, kind of like a storyline that

follows my storyline of going to Japan,

getting married, and it's going to have

like references to things that happened on

the channel.

Maybe even some characters from my life

could appear in the game as well, maybe as

bosses or enemies or just sidekicks you

could unlock.

I haven't really fleshed out what the core

game is going to be about.

Is it going to be a platformer, a shooter?

It's kind of leaning towards being a

shooter at the moment.

I don't really know what other features to

add to it at the moment.

I've got quite a lot of ideas, it's just

trying to figure out how to make the ideas

happen because I have to learn how to code

it into the game if I have any new ideas

that I have.

And the game is currently a PC game and

Mac MacBook Mac game.

It can be run on Mac and PC, and it has

keyboard and mouse controls.

Haven't really added gamepad or controller

controls yet, and it doesn't work on

mobile or iOS or smartphones.

I have to do that.

That will be something that will be coming

way, way later when the game is finished.

I think I'll start thinking about adding

other platforms that it can run on, but

for now it's just a PC and Mac game.

So if you decide to kindly join my

Patreon, how will you get access to the

game?

Um, basically I'm going to upload the

file, the .exe file for Windows, directly

to Patreon that you can directly download.

And I also upload the Mac version of the

game as well as a direct file that you can

directly download.

So yeah, for $3 a month you will get

access to my game as I develop it, and you

can also give me some inputs, and maybe I

could even add you into the game if you

wanted me to, or I could take some

suggestions and put those into the game as

well.

But you have to remember that it's a very

unfinished game.

I only just recently started making it.

I've spent about 8 or 9 days making the

game, and I think it looks pretty good so

far, but obviously there's going to be

problems with it and possibly bugs, and

there's not really a lot to the game yet.

But hopefully over the next weeks and

months, I'm going to start fleshing out

more of the game, and there's going to be

more and more levels, more and more

enemies, more and more items and abilities

and stuff like that.

It's been very difficult getting back into

coding.

If you have any experience coding, then

you'll know that in the beginning, in the

start, it's a very strange thing to get

your head wrapped around and to

understand.

It's very weird how you have to write out

lines of letters and random symbols and

numbers to make things happen on a screen.

And even the simplest things, like just

getting a box of text to appear on the

screen, can just be very complicated and

time-consuming to understand how to do.

And last week, 2 weeks ago, I nearly gave

up because I was getting so stressed out

about it.

I just felt like I wasn't making any

progress at all.

I was following all these tutorials, how

to make weather apps and simple apps, and

I was thinking, this isn't helping me get

anywhere closer to starting to make a

game.

And I nearly lost it.

I had to take a break for a few days from

it, and I came back, found GameMaker

Studio 2, which is a really good piece of

software.

It really makes the process of making a

game very simplified, and you just have to

start learning the basics of coding, I

guess, to start to be able to use it.

And I've been spending all day long, from

8 AM in the morning all the way until 12

or 1 AM at night, I've been pumping 15, 16

hours a day into learning how to use this

program and learning how to code again and

making the whole game all from scratch,

all by myself, without using any other

assets that other people have made has,

has meant that making this game is going

to take a lot of time, and I just feel

kind of impatient.

I don't really want to have to wait until

I finally finish the game to be able to

show you and let you play the game.

That's why I decided to do this Patreon

thing, and it's actually been really nice

getting into something I've always wanted

some kind of project or something to put

time and effort and energy into to work

on.

And I just haven't really found anything

that I wanted to really dedicate myself to

until recently.

And I was spending every day, all day,

just really bored.

Didn't know what to do.

Was just spending, wasting all day playing

video games because I had nothing else to

do.

But now I wake up in the morning and I

feel like I've got so many tasks to do to

finish this game.

And the days are just flying by so

quickly.

And it's really nice having a project.

To really focus and work on.

And even though it's hard work and it

takes a lot of effort and it can be really

stressful when there's bugs and I don't

know how to implement some kind of feature

that I really want in the game, even

though it's very stressful, it's also

really rewarding.

And I haven't had this feeling in my life

in a very long time.

And I was also struggling to find a use

for Patreon.

I had a Patreon for quite some time and

recently, well, not recently, but for over

a year I haven't really updated or posted

anything to it and it's just kind of

fizzled out.

No one, no one's really on it.

There's a couple of people still on it,

which I'm really grateful for, but I

haven't really put any content onto

Patreon and that's because I don't really

have anything to put onto it.

I don't have bonus video footage or behind

the scenes making of my content because

the content I make on YouTube is not

really doesn't really take a lot of

effort.

It's just me talking to a camera, so I

don't really have bonus stuff that I could

have put onto Patreon.

And now that I have this game project

working that I'm working on, I feel like I

can put a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff

onto the Patreon.

Like, I could make posts, I could write

posts and journal entries on how the

game's going and new things I've added to

it, kind of like a game development

journal.

If you've been watching the channel for a

long time, then you may know that back in

2015 I actually used to make iOS games,

and I knew how to code back then.

Basic— I knew basic code, I knew how to do

basic things, and I made a few iOS games.

I had this one game that I made, it was

called Tanks and Zombies, and it was kind

of like Space Invaders, but instead of

aliens coming down from the top of the

screen, zombies came down from the top of

the screen, and instead of being a

spaceship, you were a tank on a railway

track, and you had to shoot the zombies as

they were approaching you.

And it was quite— I thought it was quite a

good game, but at the time I was very

impatient, and I uploaded it to the iOS

Store, and only 2 people bought it.

I think one of them was my uncle, and I

just kind of got fed up because I felt

like it took so much time and so much

effort to make this game, and I only made

$5.

It just didn't really feel worth it.

I just feel kind of annoyed that I decided

to make this game now.

It would have been so much better if I

made it back in 2018 or 2019 when I had

more viewers.

But at the time, I was just not really

interested in the whole getting back into

coding and making a game idea.

And I could have, because GameMaker

Studio— it's not like it's only just been

released.

It's been out for over a decade.

I think 10 years ago you could have used

GameMaker Studio and made a game.

2018, I don't know if GameMaker Studio 2

was out by then, But I still could have

made a game in the same way that I'm

making it now.

It's just really annoying that it takes me

such a long time to get motivation to do

difficult things.

So if you like the sound of the game and

you would like to give it a try, even in

this very early stage, then feel free to

join my Patreon.

And I feel like I would just be a lot more

motivated if I could get a sense of how

many people would be interested in this

project.

Yeah, we'll see how it goes.

Hopefully I don't give up and my

motivation stays strong as it is now.

And I think in a few months' time, or even

if in a few weeks' time at this rate, I

think the game is going to be looking

pretty good and it's going to be getting

closer and closer to a finished product.