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If my sources are correct... somebody on YouTube is talking about Petscop.
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Merry Christmas, this recording of Mike on an egg hunt was originally named "mike-hunt", but was later renamed to "mike2". Petscop trivia.
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I've been consistently amazed by the fans of this thing. The common experience of Petscop is mostly the product of your work, not mine. It adds accessibility to a series that I once thought had a much smaller audience. Thank you all for that.
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I think viewers understand Petscop more than I do. Because when I see it, I think about my intentions, and all this implicit stuff. And other people see what's actually there. To me that perspective seems more valid. And I can never really see that myself, which is weird.
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I posted the first Petscop video 5 years ago.
Sheesh, a lot of people watched this. And the audio is slightly out of sync. How embarrassing.
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To any indie game developers: wouldn't it be so much easier if you didn't have to worry about the player at all? So much work eliminated, not to mention stress. Make a fake game.
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The child's voice ("bye-bye", "uh-oh") is me circa 1997. Just a random fun fact. :)
Yes that was the "one thing." Anyway see you tomorrow.
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I like when people interpret Petscop in the way that's most compelling for them. I don't particularly want everyone to understand exactly what was in my head. If I did, I would have been much clearer about it to begin with.
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Regarding Newmaker references. Most of you know that this was intentional but I wanted to confirm it.
It was extremely stupid of me.
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The "quitter" stuff is the most abhorrent thing I did in Petscop. I usually hate things about my previous work, but that stuff is on another level for me.
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At some point I'm gonna run out of Petscop tweets and go back to saying "hot dog bung" twice a year, hope you'll all enjoy that.
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Maybe I'll make one of those Petscop analysis/investigation videos... 🤔
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I considered Petscop to be a first step towards the thing I was eventually interested in doing, and I'm taking the next step with my new project.
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The car door sound in Petscop was produced by opening and closing the door of the car I was sitting in. Just some completely random behind the scenes 🚗 trivia for you.
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I started a new project very recently. I'll be dedicating my time to that now. Won't be done for a long while, though.
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It's completely finished now. I want to get some distance from it before I consider talking about it. For now, I'm just gonna leave it.
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I was going to make a game that was spread across like 30 EXEs in a complex tree of folders and other files, and the programs would communicate with each other if running at the same time.
That project was going to be Petscop, which explains where this is from.
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From last year, goofing around in Blender and reducing the palette in Aseprite.
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When you play back a recording from a long time ago, say 1997, it's not happening in 1997. It's happening now, in 2019. But the people in the recording don't know that. They have no idea where they really are.
What if *you're* somewhere else right now?
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Confession, I don't really like playing video games, but I love them aesthetically, so I always wish I could buy a game and just have it play itself. Having to play a game distracts me from what I actually like about it.
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I never wrote scripts for the videos beforehand. I had outlines (sometimes just in my head). But I did all the "writing" out loud, just before recording, and often *during* recording, so you're often hearing me trying to articulate something on the fly. I think it helped.
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When I was a kid I made sprite comics with Mario assets. Then I started making my own sprites and backgrounds and using those.
Now I'm essentially making machinima with my own engine and assets. There's something amusing about this, like I'm back where I started.
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Been focusing on the new project. The beginning of a project is always a lot of fun. This time I'm making the whole thing before releasing any of it, which means you won't be seeing it for the next 500 years.
Anyway, it's related to my avatar.
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Just kidding about all that "Bill" nonsense from before. There is no such thing...
Nevertheless, here is a sprite of "Bill" that I have just made.
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So, Petscop makes extensive use of input recordings. All button presses are recorded into a file, and this allows the gameplay session to be played back identically later. Standard game engine feature but extremely useful.
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Petscop subtitles are ready.
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Also, the : ) in the channel description is about to become a wink ; )
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Tentatively starting work on the task of recreating the Petscop videos from the original input recordings, to find out just how much work it would require. So far, it seems pretty daunting. But the idea is more enticing to me now than it has been before.
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The "discovery pages" website exists, in full. At one point, I was going to release it with the first video.
But it had too many words on it, and those words said too many things, and that felt wrong. I was still figuring out the tone at that point.
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Making stuff is hard because it always sucks at first, but I need to be in a state of mind where I don't realize that yet, and think it's amazing, otherwise I'll want to stop. Then I have to realize it sucks later so I can make it better. The timing doesn't always work out there.
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At my current pace, careful calculations are telling me that my current project will be finished sometime in the summer of 2037. I hope you are all looking forward to it.
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This goes through my mind when I read viewers' comments. It's like, I don't even really have access to the Petscop they're talking about. So I take that stuff to heart, including the negative stuff, because you all know more than I do about what I've *actually* put out there.
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These "analog horror" videos desperately want to be like 5 hours long but they're always like 5 minutes.
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Working on a series that you release over time, you can't change your mind about things on a whim, because you're limited by past decisions. Now that I'm working on something where I *can* change my mind about anything at any time, I've sometimes felt caught in an infinite loop.
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I wasn't interested in making some kind of formal, official announcement, but I was ready to casually stop keeping it a secret. Didn't actually care if people believed me or not. But it blew up faster than I expected due to Nifty.
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These subtitles are requiring that I listen to myself for hours, and... I think I'll be leaving my voice out of all future projects.
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Almost every single time I have a really good idea, I have a moment of deja vu and feel like I've completely stolen the idea from somewhere. But I don't know where. And I have to decide whether to use the idea or abandon it, based on no information. It sucks.
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When I'm writing, there are times when I'm like, "I hope nobody understands what I meant by this." It's pretty bad. I have such an aversion to revealing myself in any way, yet such a strong desire to somehow include that stuff anyway.
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For Petscop I used C++ with Cinder (, not that I particularly recommend it for a project like that). For the new project I'm using C with minimal libraries, for... "aesthetic" reasons (i.e. no practical reason whatsoever).
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The first video has English subtitles now. If there are no issues here, I'll continue like this.
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I think it would be cool to see a 2 hour movie where after 1 hour the main character walks out of a house with no nose or ears and the movie ends.
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Yes, I will. It's not really the same thing as Petscop in that sense.
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I was wondering why I've been getting likes on that "I'm Winnie-the-Pooh" Mario comic recently.
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All of it means something to me, but I don't encourage trying to read my mind.
When creating something like this, I think you probably don't want to do randomness/non sequiturs, because you hope for people to have some sense of meaning and cohesion, like on an intuitive level.
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What's new in spooky web projects in the past year? Or, even stuff adjacent to that. I asked this last year, and was glad I did, so it's worth doing again.
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RELEASE THE ISO
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I'm curious. Can anyone name some examples of horror (movies, games, anything) where the characters aren't in any immediate danger whatsoever?
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My current project has gone through like 5 different titles already. I don't think I've been this indecisive about a title before. Petscop was called Petscop from day 1 and I never even considered changing it.
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Gotta make that remaining Petscop trivia last for the next 16 years until I have something else to talk about.
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If you want to see a series like Petscop where the acting takes center stage then you should probably take a look at this. I think the latest video is pretty damn good.
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The dumb story behind the "Caught" text in Petscop is that I actually wanted it to say "Gotcha", but zoned out and started writing "Caught" for some reason, and I just went with that, because whatever.
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I kinda wished I could make longer and more intricate Paul/Marvin/Tiara interactions but that engine wasn't set up to make it convenient. I needed to choreograph it ahead of time and not make any mistakes.
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Found this screenshot from 2008 where I tried recreating Windows 95 in XP. My earliest memories of using computers are probably from around 1996, so this was me feeling nostalgic for technology from 12 years ago.
This screenshot was taken 12 years ago.
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There was also a developer "journal" but I thought that was kind of lame.
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I could never work on something with a higher resolution than about 480p. Beyond that it's just an unwieldy number of pixels. I don't know how people deal with them.
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All these people saying I did not make PetScop... I respectfully disagree with their claims.
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I decided I'm going to be more object oriented from now on.
Not when I'm programming, but, other times.
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To those saying "Lego Island 2", I would prefer not to be reminded of that game, thank you.
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BTW all that old work is only superficially related to Petscop. I'm also not proud of it all. It's pretty old stuff.
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The Windows XP version of MS Paint is still the best paint program out there. Waiting for somebody to top it.
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It feels like a very small amount of skill in 3D modelling takes me a lot further than the equivalent skill in 2D art. I'm still not very good at it, but I'm getting a lot from it.
For a while, I felt like I didn't have the art skill to even begin working on my ideas.
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In 2012 I did this mockup of an adventure game/visual novel thing. I don't remember much about it now, but I do remember that the story would've had Care, Marvin, Mike, and Rainer in it.
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I hadn't done anything in 3D before Petscop and this was probably among the first few things I did in Blender.
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At one point I thought about doing livestreams instead of static videos. I don't have the courage though. Hope somebody else does that, it would really be a great way to "top" what I did and bring something new to the table.
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