Events Are Coming Back And We're Getting To Work (Patreon)

Hey everyone! 

It's been some time since my last general update and with offline events and travel coming back (keep every finger crossed), I've been hard at work planning and putting together our next projects as well as thinking about where I want to take the channel and patreon in the next year.

Upcoming Projects + More Videos

At the moment, I have about five different videos either in planning or production, including an interview with Woolie about his Guilty Gear Lore series coming next week. Some of these are gonna be short features that I'm experimenting with to fill the gaps between bigger docs, similar to the Helst video from last week. My goal for the immediate future is to have a video hit the channel every two weeks just to build some consistency in uploads and promote channel growth, as well as just shake things up a bit with my editing style. Long docs all the time can be quite draining to put together, so mixing things up a bit sounds pretty exciting for me. 

Speaking of bigger docs, though. I really want to tell the story of Skullgirls so that will be my primary focus on that front for this year. I've chatted with Rick over at Combo Breaker about doing something really interesting to go alongside a possible SG video, so more news on that as it comes together. 

Building Value for Patrons

One of the ways I feel like I can improve is by providing more content for you guys. Admittedly, I've been so heads down into things like Killer Instinct in the past that I haven't really given much time extra for patrons. That's going to change moving forward as I've switched up my production planning to build in extra content with almost every project coming up. So for example, all patrons in the $5 and up tiers will be getting an extended version of the Woolie video. I really want to provide more extra content for our various tiers, so let me know in the comments on what other patron extras you'd like to see in the future! 

Raising Funds Outside of Patreon

Speaking of Patreon, we've kept pretty good support throughout the pandemic era of the FGC, but one thing I noticed with the Killer Instinct videos is that there are some that would love to support a single project as opposed to the channel as a whole. Let's say there's a project I was striving to put together: would you be against a separate kickstarter-like approach for one project? Patrons would get any extras something like this would provide plus more as you guys are my long term supporters (separate credits, extended cuts, etc). This isn't anything set in stone, just feeling out the situation so definitely let me know in the comments how you feel about it. 

That's all for now. Expect more updates as projects come together. I'm really excited for the next batch of videos as well as what the future holds for the channel. Don't forget we have a Discord just for patrons, so check your connections and join it if you'd like to ask me any questions or just hang out. Really want to put a focus on that over the next few months. Thanks again for your continued support! 

- Esteban