JUBILATION! Saturday Update!
First things first, for those of you who’ve no idea what’s going on on this page, howdy! :o)
Our friends who made their way here down the tree of links will probably know this already, but by way of introduction to the site where I am actually posting this particular update (Update? Devlog? It’s sort of a log, but I do like the term Update, gives it some kind of nebulous significance doesn’t it?), a little about the “what’s going on here” part. I’m Julesbilee, a constitutional law scholar, founder of the (honestly sort of unfounded as yet) Jubilant Party, and author of the upcoming game JUBILATION!, whose first chapter will be releasing later this year! Coming soon to an abandoned theater in a collapsing society near you! Or you can just download it and play it on your device, I guess.
Speaking of JUBILATION!, those of you who haven’t scoped it yet may want to take a look at our first teaser for the game over at https://youtu.be/59_3KrwYNyY. Go on, give it a peep. And while you’re at it, feel free to hop on over to https://linktr.ee/julesbilee and follow everything on there (who knows what might be relevant later!) then head back here for the remainder of this juicy little morsel of update.
Go on, we’ll wait. I’m sure the rest of the audience will need a moment to get over the fact that I just used the phrase juicy little morsel (twice in a row now, so you’ve got extra time).
Alrighty, everybody back in your seats?! Got your popcorn at the ready? Ringers off? Great! I mean, there’s no movie today, I don’t know why you brought popcorn. Uh, unless you watched the little movie up above, in which case why did you just get popcorn?? This feels like some kind of breach of protocol. And now half of you reading this are going to be thinking “mm I want some popcorn” and people are going to be shuffling in and out of the theatre, god, what have I done.
Well, I guess there’s hardly ever a bad time for some good old fashioned hydrogenated Iowa gold. Orville Redenbacher and his Colonel of Kernels probably thank me for my service.
So, it’s been about a week and a half since I dropped that first teaser for JUBILATION! Eleven days, that’s something right? Hmm, elevensies? No that’s 111. I’ll just check a few pages in my future and see what I decided to call this post… Saturday update? Okay sure, it’s the second Saturday since the teaser was shown. What an amazing milestone, hooray!! (Why not, that makes as much sense as anything else.)
First look got a nice little bit of interest, some eager eyes one might expect to accumulate with time and further information becoming of an actual video-game studio. But as you can see, I’ve since furnished NO further content whatsoever for the teeming masses, hungry hordes, beloved audience, etc.
And so now seemed like the perfect time to set up this little temporary residence and give you all (whoever is even looking so far) a proper update. Or rather, several weeks ago would probably have been the perfect time to set up here, and definitely the perfect time for this update would be uh, somewhere before today. But hey, one mustn't be too self-effacing when setting out to start a revolution (and make no mistake darlings, that is EXACTLY what we’re doing here), or so I hear.
Unless the self-effacery is funny of course; personal dignity is never worth the sacrifice of a good joke.
You can’t just go around missing punchlines, not in this economy.
Now the more eagle eyed and also the blind and deaf of you and just about everyone in between may have noticed that so far this update contains a whole lot of no information whatsoever, to such an extent that one might imagine some kind of popcorn metaphor working here if the author were forethoughtful enough not to make a non-sequitur joke about popcorn further up the post…
But at any rate, we should probably get into the nuts and bolts of it, give you something to actually get excited about beyond the promise of an infinite quantity of my waffling. Peel back, if only for a fleeting glimpse, the veil into which you no doubt eagerly peer, the churning maw of my shadowy organization and its seething content mills, the future objects of beholdment inching their way towards your eyes and ears.
Let’s see… oh! We’re working on a website. Well, I’m working on a website really. It’s like five people over here and mostly they’re furnishing music or helping me with [REDACTED] for the [REDACTED] when we announce the [REDACTED], although I suppose that’s way too big to talk about just yet, heheh.
And seriously you guys this site, it’s gonna be so rad.
I don’t wanna spoil too much but let’s just say there’s more to JUBILATION! Than what comes on the cartridge. Some games are best played with the use of everything that comes in the box, if you get what I’m putting down ;o)
So, you know the mysterious pseudo-mmo earthbound style twin peaks inspired city used as the home menu screen on the satellaview add-on for the Super NES?
Really, you do?! No way!! Oh, you’re messing with me. Rude. But okay yeah I figured you wouldn’t, that was a bit of a reach. Hmm… okay imagine club penguin, a mother romhack, an AOL chat room, and an old Web 1.0 blog all had some kind of multibaby together, or paired off and made babies who made grandbabies or something. This is gonna be sort of like that.
And if you have any idea whatsoever what any of that means, you probably just clicked the follow button. Thanks for that by the way! If you have no idea what I’m talking about, don’t worry, you can click the button too, it’s all very cool and exciting and your trendy friends will be so mad at you later for finding it first.
Oh, and of course there’s gonna be more animated content coming soon too! I mean, nothing special really, probably just a lot of totally ignorable promotional type materials. Nothing to do with that “everything in the box” analogy, so definitely don’t go subscribing to the channel waiting around on some kind of weird avant-garde peripheral content or story additions, there is definitely absolutely nothing of that variety churning in these here content mills, nosireebob.
(please intuit the above as some kind of very high effort eldritch abomination and definitely not just a lot of character sketches layered obscuratively over top of each other to create some enticing garbage, the author gets tired sometimes, work with me on this one)
Anything left to note, hmm.. oh, I’m gonna try to put out some speed paints soon! I finally figured out how to record those properly without the hassle of rotating footage all over the place, by which I of course mean I discovered clip studio paint’s extremely obvious button for recording that exact kind of capture. Big achievement there, very proud of myself for noticing the button. And these digi-art tools be dropping buttons out of every pocket like a kleptomaniac kid in cargo shorts in a button store, so I’m only like 80% kidding on that one.
But yeah, may be furnishing some visually interesting dev-vlogs (say that three times fast) by way of this amazing discovery, accompanied of course by whatever I happen to draw for that. As soon as I climb the additional hurdle of clearing some hard drive space to actually store and edit those videos that is. Nobody said Sisyphus had to work quick. But hey, let’s give that one a solid Soon^TM.
Oh and the other big thing of course, I am just over the moon to finally announce [REDACTED] to y’all! Though of course I can’t give myself the luxury of unredacting it until [REDACTED] also comes together, but that sure was a nifty callback to that joke wasn’t it? Really advanced stuff. And I didn’t even excessively metatextually pat myself on the back about it or anything.
So yeah, I guess that’s pretty much everything on your need to know basis bases covered for now! I’ll try to keep posting updates here semi-regularly, as well as maybe some concept art and stuff, especially in any particular droughts of other content as we pick up the pace over here at the mills in moving towards launching an actual game. But for now, that’s today’s program, thanks for tuning in!
