Production update 2025-02-06

Hi!

Oops, I haven't been updating... I'm sorry about that. On the bright side, while normally, whenever I don't update, it's because I have been in a slump and having a hard time making progress on the video, this time, things have been going for the most part rather swimmingly.

Let's have a look at what happened since the last update, and the cool news I have to share. First of all, the production schedule!

As you can see, I am... basically finished!

So, does that mean the video is coming out on the 7th, like I promised?

Well, not quite. Tomorrow (actually today here as I write those lines) is my birthday, so I'm taking the day off. I'm most likely going to put the finishing touches over the weekend, which means I plan on releasing the video sometime between February 9th and 11th ish, which brings me to the first good news.

Early release on Patreon

I'll be putting out a fully ad free early release for Tier 2+ Patreon members!

I want to be fully honest. I could have sugarcoated it and said "I am doing this purely out of the kindness of my heart to thank all of you" but 1. that would be disingenuous and 2. I don't want to create expectations that videos will be released in early access for Tier 2+ Patrons from here on out.

The main reason why is pretty simple: I'm working out a sponsor deal with Displate that will require the video to come out a bit later in February - I don't know the exact date yet but it's almost assuredly within the next two weeks. But the video will be ready this weekend, so it only makes sense to make it available ad free for my most fervent supporters.

I'm going to do this whenever the situation makes it convenient, so it will most likely happen again in the future.

Other good news?

The other good news will have to wait. I was hoping to be able to talk about it a couple of weeks ago, but unfortunately, I'm still waiting on the final steps to make it happen. What I will say is that it's gonna be a fun collaboration on a YouTube channel bigger than mine that some of you probably already know and enjoy, but is not speedrunning related.

Music

Thanks to my brother, I will have four new pieces of music to release with Part 2! As you know from a previous update, I decided to split it again, so there will be a Part 3. Aside from maybe one piece, and the Ending theme I recorded but haven't used yet, there probably won't be any more music coming out for Part 3.

Cool stuff I made

Congratulations! You've reached the part of the update where I talk about the cool stuff I made. I had fun in Manim this time, and I really like how much I'm starting to get the hang of things. What I'm doing is still using about 0.01% of the library's power, but being more at ease with it means that I can make it do exactly what I want and start using it for storytelling purposes.

You know I had to talk about THE Fungi rainbow coin.

 Someone is making a move on the leaderboards!

Showing what happens to a golden banana when it first loads thanks to the free camera in the practice ROM.

The best name for a level route?

Showing how much the run has improved in 5 years.

And putting into perspective some insane individual level times.

Fun little time capsule!

Talking about void maps.

We're getting into the insane tricks.

Climactic zoom in.

That's it! Expect the early release sometime in the next 3 to 4 days, and I'll be announcing the public release date later this month. Once this video's done, I'll be starting Part 3!

Talk to you soon!