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I made a video about my 2023 progress developing the procedural landscape for my game The Big Forest.
It's my first ever video in a "classic YouTube format" with intro and outro, channel branding, background music etc. I'd love to hear what you think!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxMwggFQRQM
#ProcGen #GameDev
So for reference, this video was a huge success.
I've had my YouTube channel for 16 years (64 videos) and it's accrued 1500 subscribers over that time. Then this new video had 1000 more people subscribe over a matter of a few days.
And while a few old videos of mine have more views (>100k vs 22k for the new video), those views were accrued over time as well. The views per day (or per week; doesn't matter) is an order of magnitude higher for the new one than anything I've done in the past.
My point is: I decided to try out "the classic YouTube format" and put just a little bit more effort into editing and presentation than I usually do, and that seemed to be super effective.
But I still made the video in just two days. I used solely existing footage I'd already posted to social media over the past months. Wrote a script and recorded it, and spend half a day picking music (which I can reuse in future videos). Oh, and I use DaVinci Resolve for editing; it's free and powerful.
@runevision I'd seen all your WIP posts here, but I still enjoyed the summary. It feels well-paced. 
Hey @Christina, check this out! More YouTube competition for you. 
@julian @Christina Thanks, I'm glad to hear that!
Oh, and I think devlogs are quite different from tutorials; no competition there 
@runevision Love it! The four audio sources solution looks clever.
@aras Thanks!
And yeah, I not surprised you've become predisposed to like anything with point clouds in it ;)
@runevision dunno if related :) I loved the visualization where the audio sources are placed and how they move
@runevision also, whatever you do with videos, for the love of everything please never to a thumbnail with a “face doing weird expression over actual content”
cosmicvisitors @runevision I really like the landscapes. One comment for future improvement, when you added the water stream, some tree trunks look unnaturally placed, because the stream does not expose the roots or create any algae around the trunk. Maybe something to consider, but it looks great already.
@cosmicvisitors Thanks! Yeah I'm aware the trees don't look good when the bottom part (or lack of it) is exposed. I've so far postponed finding or creating better tree models in general, since it's a whole big topic of its own...
@runevision ooh really looking forward to watching this later!
@runevision this looks amazing!
@runevision really great work, nice to see all the work you’ve been posting collated in one video
@sinbad Thanks! I might use this format again since it’s more approachable than making an entire YouTube-sized video of original content from scratch. Only took two days (excluding the logo animation, which I made long ago). I have another more original video sitting unfinished since last summer, which I spent several weeks on and had to take a break from.
@runevision it bumped out of nowhere into my YT feed - watched, very nice video ;)
@wonziu Oh nice, and thanks!
Yeah on the third day of being out, the YouTube algorithm really seemed to pick up the video.
@runevision I think it was Sunday for me, but I can be wrong ;)
I just watch lots of random gamedev stuff. I liked yours because there was no crazy over the top montage, making it hard to follow and annoying for me despite the content itself ;)
And I followed your journey here, so it was nice to see it in nicely condensed video form.
I don't really like short tik tok format - and on the youtube shorts are very hard to watch - I can't make timestamps or both read comments and watch (comments under these kinds of videos are usually pretty useful).
So yeah - it was really nice and informative.
Hope to see more ;)
@wonziu Heh, I hear you, I tried to give TikTok a chance based on promotion recommendations, but my brain can't handle the bombardment of stimuli there. And so, of course I can't make good TikTok content myself either, when I fundamentally don't get along with the medium.
@runevision this "trend hunting" is a big problem for me - lots of great creators are at the mercy of algorithm and it affects their videos to the point it makes them hard to for me to watch ;) And I don't blame them - it is really hard to stay afloat when you make money from youtube.
Anyways - your video was really refreshing: it made the topic even more interesting, pace and commentary was on spot - I really enjoyed it ;)