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Re:Show HN: Bot Land, a game where you fight others via code by rapfaria on Sunday September 29, 2019 @05:17PM (#21109667)
Why do you have the videos unlisted?

This is amazing, congrats.

Re:Show HN: Bot Land, a game where you fight others via code by Adam13531 on Sunday September 29, 2019 @05:22PM (#21109695)
> Why do you have the videos unlisted?

Two reasons:

1. By making them public, they show up for all of my subscribers on YouTube, but I assume most subscribers on YouTube want to watch "major" update videos like announcements, recaps, etc. 2. I didn't want a new person coming to the channel to get lost in the ~800 development videos rather than seeing the important ones.

> This is amazing, congrats.

Thank you! It's surreal to have spent this long developing something and finally launch it.

Re:Show HN: Bot Land, a game where you fight others via code by hombre_fatal on Sunday September 29, 2019 @07:35PM (#21110363)
What about the two channel system that is so common on youtube? One for major productions, the other for faster-release-but-narrow-appeal videos like behind the scenes or development progress? That way super fans can follow the bonus channel without having to go through your website to find videos.
Re:Show HN: Bot Land, a game where you fight others via code by Adam13531 on Sunday September 29, 2019 @07:43PM (#21110402)
That probably could have worked, although I don't think I was the best at advertising things. :( As a streamer, I felt like one of the most difficult things to do was to alert people about news/changes for basically anything (my vacation schedule, a bug, the current task I was working on, etc.).

Now that the game has launched and my streaming schedule is up in the air, I don't know if I'll be changing anything with the YouTube channel. It's been around for so long now, and I don't think many people want to watch the past VODs anyway beyond skimming to see what's changed in that amount of time.