Trinket Milestone 3

The dungeon’s popularity is plummeting! Only the Slime can make it fun again. Lots of magic sodas are needed to get the job done.

Had a ton of fun researching gameplay since May. At the time when we were planning it, the goal of this video was to showcase some gameplay elements I had in mind, weaved together to demonstrate the tone promise of the game. No one could plan these ‘ideas’ on paper. I had to make it real. And now you know.

It was intended to be in much shorter forms. Unsurprisingly, I feature creeped it into a different dimension, and my movie-maker persona also co-took the wheel. Very proud of the small story in the end.

This is not the most promotion-efficient format but I have an artistic responsibility to do whatever I like 🙂 Numbers are terrible on twitter rn (v.s. the effort), but getting a million views on bilibili for its more content-friendly algorithm. Feels fitting.

Edit: It had been a slow climb, but this video turned out to be one of my most recognized piece. It became All-site Hottest Top 1 and Weekly Rank Top 1 video on BiliBili, putting me at 90k followers. It also kickstarted my Youtube channel ( +20k subs in a month and I only had 10k to begin with). It’s sad that twitter is indeed in a dying state. It was the only platform I felt comfortable chatting about the more technical side (besides discord). The cycle of stuff dying. What can you do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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