Originally posted by /u/alpinemesh
Hi everyone, it is me again with the attempts to produce videos about Kittens Game. I got the general sentiment the last time that watching a let’s play is not too entertaining because there is nothing spectacular to look at but I just could not stop :)
Elevator pitch: Are you a beginner and just don’t know yet how to survive your first winter without too many casualties? Maybe you are a seasoned player that wants to help a friend to get started? This video tutorial has all the answers to the very basic questions and a tiny bit more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhEcvK1MZ_E
It has two parts. The general explanation of what incremental games are and what is the point of them, and a hands-on practical example of getting started with a very first run of Kittens. I am sure that most people here don’t need it anymore, but you may use it to get your friends play and enjoy it, which was my initial intention.
featherwinglove
So, a more serious reply now. First, it is really hard to make an incremental game interesting to watch, and I appreciate your attempt to do so. I also appreciate that you’re fairly good at the game. Nearly every 'tuber I’ve seen play incremental games and make videos for YouTube are painfully incompetent at the game. You’re good at both playing and making the videos, and gratz, you’re the first such 'tuber I’ve seen! (This would include me; I tried to do unique stuff, and at the time, no one had made a Swarm Simulator video, so I did so. Is that why YouTube banned me? I have no idea. But I had a house fan cooling a laptop with a dead fan, a dollar store microphone and Audacity doing the noise filtering, so it was one of my worst videos from a technical standpoint. Also one of my worst performers in the metrics.)
Factorio vids are a dime a dozen, and it is interesting to watch. So if there’s a niche modpack or strange way of playing that interests you, that could be a way to get some people coming to the channel to check out the Kittens stuff. Sorry, I’m not going to watch much of it because not only do I bore of watching Kittens, I tend to bore of playing Kittens eventually, usually take several months off, the inevitable purring craving returns, and I blow the old game flat because something new like policies has appeared, and I want to have a fresh experience. Now, if you do the burner thing, split down to yellow belts with the individual machines, or this happens. I’ve noticed even vanilla speed runners using red belts have a tendency to split down to yellow for the machines and inserters because it’s cheaper. Ah, the simplicity of Kittens…