Hello everyone and welcome to the first post in our AML Spotlight series. In this series we will spotlight each of our shows from the AML Showcase 2020 and implore you, dear reader, to give us feedback on them by taking a quick survey (and/or commenting on the post). Without further ado, we present…
The video above was our complete showcase that we aired on various places around the internet this past September: The AML Showcase 2020. Meaning today’s spotlight is on the showcase as a whole.
When this thing—whatever it is—first started, we didn’t have
a nice and neat showcase in mind. Originally, we were just going to post the
separate videos on YouTube. However, during the two years of work on the showcase,
a lot changed, and a lot grew. We never expected to have enough content for a
showcase. Besides daybreak psychosis everything was originally about the length
of an episode of Kit, but as we worked everything grew.
I don’t recall the exact moment we decided to do the
showcase, but I can guess, and I guess it was sometime around mid-2019. We
realized we had a lot of content, especially with the dual versions of the Mild
Education episodes and the Child 2 Bonus video. The decision to do the showcase
wasn’t as simple as saying, “Oh, yeah, let’s do that,” though. Snitching
together this beast meant we would need to resub it… somehow.
We had decided after completing the initial Kit pilots that
subtitling these videos was important to us. It made them complete. So, if we
were going to make a showcase, it too needed to be subbed. Which meant 1 of 3
things: 1) Abandon this crazy idea of doing a showcase because subbing this beast
would be way too difficult, 2) sub it with are then current method (which was
greatly improved from our original method) but would take an impractical amount
of time, or 3) improve our method (which would add R&D time). We choose
option 3 and got to work.
On a side note, it probably doesn’t make sense why subtitling
was such a venture, but it just was. We may do a future post about it because
we have a lot to talk about when it comes to Subtitling and the AML Showcase
2020 (and no, that’s not a new show).
Anywho, the final piece of the puzzle was where do we put it.
Initially, simple—just YouTube. But then 2020 happened. First, something good.
We got fiber internet which meant we could do a lot of things that simply weren’t
possible before. Then, a lot of bad stuff. No need to go into detail. We all
got a 2020 and bad stuff tale. However, one of the side effects of the 2020 Bad
Stuff™ was not only us watching a lot
more of Twitch but also watching a lot of non-gaming related Twitch content for
the first time. Which turn gave us two ideas: 1) We could probably premiere this
showcase on Twitch and, 2) we could probably do a 24-hour stream. We did both
and it was fun!
Wow, this is long. The spotlighting was supposed to be like a paragraph, maybe two. So, I’ll end it here, but not before telling y—NO! Daring you to take our General Survey on the AML Showcase 2020 and let us know what you thought of it. Okye, okay? Bye-bye.
AML Showcase 2020 - General Survey
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