Random Mount & Blade Bullshittery - Update #4

Apologies for the late update folks. I was really supposed to do one last week but I fell behind because I'm a bit worried I don't have enough new information to show you. And was therefore trying to get as much done as possible for presentation.

In the editing I'm about 10 minutes and 40 seconds complete out of 25 minutes. And my focus right now is to try and get the first half available to you as a complete video as soon as possible. You can then either decide to watch it then as early-access, or wait until the full video is complete. I'll leave that entirely up to you.

Back on the 9th of February (editing day 15), I had managed to finish about 5 minutes of 25. And what I did up until the 21st February (editing day 23) was continue editing until around the 10 minute mark. After which I've been trying to quality-assure those 10 minutes. As of now (editing day 27) that quality assurance is up to about 5 minutes. And I'm hoping to finish the remaining 5 minutes this week.

Also, one of the things I've been discovering during the quality assurance is that Mount & Blade's menu system is frustratingly cluttered when viewed quickly. The character creation is a good example of this. There's so much information on screen and the human brain is hard-wired to read text (something I'm counting on to make bullshitteries more comedically effective), that I'm finding my quality assurance fixes are often not simply correcting spelling errors but are reworking things entirely for easy viewing.

For example, here is a screenshot of the original edit which shows an off-handed remark about the randomised character selection options. And then this is the same scene post-quality assurance. I found it a good idea to make a fake mock-up of the character selection in photoshop, pushing the redundant menu options to one side in order to reduce the amount of unimportant text appearing before the viewer. And there are loads of examples of this sort of thing throughout the video.

None of this stuff is mandatory of course. But I'm hoping the attention to detail pays dividends on rewatchs.

In other news, today Lulu saw snow for the first time. And she absolutely loved it! She was bouncing all over with excitement.

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