Team Hatoful presents the Undertale Demo - Part 4

[davidn]

It's the final part of the Undertale demo! In this, we realize what we now have to do, and head to the final confrontation, which I attempt to resolve in the most peaceful manner possible.

Please have a supply of buckets for tears on standby, and curb any temptations for extreme violence towards plants that this video might unexpectedly awaken in you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1bP0dUPdEA

Comments

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

If we're doing Undertale mixed in with our next Hatoful (manga) recording, I'm certainly not going to up and leave when we get to that point -- I just don't think I'd be interested in bothering to attend a session put together for nothing but Undertale. (Which obviously isn't an issue at the moment since we're basically finished the demo, but I mean in the future when the full game comes out.)

I share your feeling about the pressure from the fans, but actually I have the opposite response -- rather than putting out regular content, I feel like we have a responsibility to put out quality content.... if I subscribed to someone, I would rather get a great video every few months than mediocre ones all the time....

I think the solution here is not to worry about the strict integrity of "team hatoful" per se..... not in the sense of "breaking up the band" but in terms of band members having side projects. I think David's got the right idea, he's doing videos alone, or with other people, as the project suits.... we've already established that five people doing Undertale was a bit of overkill anyway, so I think the way to have frequent content AND good content is to not be afraid to have smaller groups doing other things instead of feeling forced to find something that exactly all five of us always want to do. (Frankly I think applying the name 'team hatoful' to non-hatoful videos was a bit of a mistake in the first place, and just led to the current awkward situation.... I can certainly understand the desire to keep providing videos to an audience that's going to be starved for content until the next game once we're done the manga, but maybe it would make more sense to put videos like that on the tumblr as "here's some other things the Team Hatoful members are doing!" rather than "hello we're most of team hatoful even though this game isn't a hatoful game!")

[budgiebin.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean to imply that we have to keep banging out videos. Quality work is definitely the priority, I think that we just don't know our voice yet. We're pretty much two games in - that's not a lot to go on.

I think the biggest issue is that we're all very new to this and are learning what works and what does not as it occurs. Now we know that forcing roles for each member doesn't work, and we're going to have to learn what does work naturally as we eventually cover more material.

Yes, we do need to think about our name - but, do we have a better name to call ourselves?

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

I more meant, that we can "call ourselves" whatever based on the particular video and people involved (and we can mention it to the Team Hatoful fanbase too, but that there doesn't necessarily have to be a consistent name put on anything that any of us does. There certainly could be one if you prefer.... but it seems like that's the start of all this awkwardness.... like what if three Team Hatoful members wanted to do a game, with a fourth person.... is that fourth person then "in" the team? Or should we just only call it Team Hatoful when we're doing Hatoful, and everything else is just side projects that aren't related :P)

[budgiebin.livejournal.com]

Well, we started out with an fan-made name. It only came about because people wanted to talk about us. I'm okay with not really having a name outside of Hatoful things. If we want to stick together as a group, we can create a new name that's a lot more generic. But then we have the same problem we have now - getting 5 people to agree on a game to play and scheduling it.

The sensible thing to do is, ideally, to only do Hatoful stuff with our current name and branch off onto unrelated channels the rest of the time for side projects. We keep our own projects and schedules this way, but should we have something like "this is what team hatoful has been up to individually" on the tumblr page?

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

That's what I was trying to say, yes. :)

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