Is this thing on? How do you write again!? It feels like an age since the last post , but it has only actually been a month. I’ve got some more changes to announce, yes I know “pick a schedule already!” Let’s just get into it!
So as you know, I’ve been MIA from the channel for the last month or so. During my time away, I’ve been planning out series, recording videos, and trying to work out an upload schedule, making sure I hit the ground running when the channel makes its comeback. As the title suggests, I’ve landed on the tried and trusted ‘3 days a week’ schedule, with videos going out on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for the foreseeable future. These will likely be around 6pm in the UK still, but that’s TBC.
As for which series go out on which day, here’s the twist. There’s no set schedule! Instead, videos will go out pretty much when they are ready. This means some weeks will see a variety of games played, whereas others might be devoted to a single game. Holding together a schedule was the worst part of the channel previously, especially when it came to playing games I had no interest in playing that particular week. I’d rather videos were well planned out and even more well made, rather than just fulfilling an obligation to play Football Manager on a Tuesday! This does also mean some weeks may see only one or two videos if there isn’t enough content. On these weeks, single videos will go out on Wednesdays, with 2 videos going out on a Monday and Friday. This could switch to Tuesday and Thursday, but I don’t want to clash with the day job too much.
Now for the games list. This may be subject to change but for now I’ve settled on 4 main games, with others popping up every now and then. The main games are:
OpenTTD
Transport Fever 2 (TpF2)
Planet Zoo (PlanZoo)
Cities: Skylines (C:S)
In terms of finished content, I have 3 episodes of TpF2 ready to go, one episode of the M4J Network Overview (with one still to produce), one main M4J Network Video, one PlanZoo video recorded but not yet edited, and a plan for a new city in C:S. I went a bit OTT on that last one, screenshotting the map and planning out pretty much every district, main road and even the overground railways!
Like I said, other games may appear from time to time. I’d love to get back into streaming random games again, but right now we’re still in the process of moving and so my desk is not setup for streaming still. Eventually some of the games listed above may also be streamed too, but right now I do see them more as video content rather than streams. Likewise if I feel like running a short series on a particular game, that may take a slot a week until it’s finished. These will be short series, 10 episodes or less on a story-driven game or just a quick build in something like Prison Architect. I like this idea of a more fluid schedule, it gives me freedom to get creative but at the same time gives you all a hopefully more consistent flow of videos. As always, I’m interested in any and all feedback, so feel free to drop your thoughts either in the comments here or join my Discord and get involved in the conversation there.
For now though everyone, thank you all for reading. I know I’ve been gone a while, but hopefully it’s all been worth it when the new videos start arriving. This may be in the coming week, it could end up being the week after, but I have enough content now for 2 week’s worth of videos so I should be able to stay ahead of the backlog until the end of the year. If you haven’t already, please do go back and like and share some of my older content, it helps out the channel and right now seeing increasing growth would be awesome.
Besides that, enjoy your weekends and until next time I will see you soon!