Heading to Comic-Con?
I'll be handing out little HintShot spy badges to anyone that wants one (for free! (in this economy??))
Look for the red Spy in the hat of cards. He's probably behind you.
See you there!
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London Comic-Con...
I am on my way.
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The Making of 'Welcome to Team Fortress' is now live on my Patreon for Strange and Unusual members.
Sneak peeks to follow in the coming days.
www.patreon.com/hintshot
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Thanks for 75k <3
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For years, Valve has let the bot crisis manifest into an ugly wake-up call for what online shooters are becoming. Now is the time for action.
Sign the petition at save.tf/ and let's send Valve a message.
Don't let Team Fortress 2 become an example.
#FixTF2 #SaveTF2
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Thank you for 1 million views on Welcome to Team Fortress.
This project has blown past my highest expectations and the response continues to overwhelm me daily.
If you missed the previous announcement, the track should now be available across *all Spotify regions*, so if you couldn't access it before, you should be able to now. And a full behind the scenes/making-of video is coming soon to my Patreon. I'll post snippets of it on YouTube Shorts to finally make use of that satanic system when it goes up.
My endless thanks for the kind words you have all given over the last few weeks. I am disheartened that the enjoyment I had with this project has come to a close, but ever more excited to create whatever comes next.
Until next time,
-H <3
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Welcome to Team Fortress is now streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, and anywhere and everywhere you're listening.
Enjoy.
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...and all of the time.
THANK YOU for the INSANE response to Welcome to Team Fortress. It has overwhelmed me more than the response to any of my projects thus far and I am still trying to figure out wtf is going on. I honestly had no expectations for people loving it this much, but all the feedback and positive comments have warmed my heart to no end. <3
While things have started to calm down, I thought I'd answer a couple FREQUENTLY-ASKED QUESTIONS that I've seen in the comments. So enjoy this FAQ section while you wait for the next piece of C O N T E N T.
Q: Why doesn't Spy turn red at the autobalance section?
A: This one was asked the most. And I did experiment with this! But it doesn't look very good! Turns out turning Spy to the RED team while he's lit by big blue lights kind of just turns him a weird grey?? (I'll post a pic on my Twitter so you can see what I mean) And I wasn't into the idea of changing the lighting setup for that one section, or even really changing the Spy's colour. I liked the idea more of the Spy being the one consistent element of the piece and having some sort of control over everything around him.
Q: Where is the second slower verse? And will you make a full version?
A: I have no plans to make a full version of the song. The main reason I did not include the slower verse, which would have talked about times before TF2 started declining, was simply because I was not around for those times! I started playing TF2 in 2016, so I feel it would be unfaithful to sing about 'the good old days' when I did not in fact play the game during those days. Other than that, adding that whole section would have doubled production time, and I preferred to keep the focus on the current problems. I like all the suggestions people have had for full versions though!
Q: Why isn't it 'Welcome to Team Fortress 2'?
A: This is another one that I did experiment with, but doesn't turn out as good in practice as you might think. It sounds clunky when sung, especially at during some of the faster sections. I also preferred the idea of singing about the entire concept of 'Team Fortress' and I thought that adding the '2' might add needless clutter. I think most people understand that I am not talking about the original Team Fortress.
Q: Who sung this?
A: Me! Hello! I also wrote it, re-created the instrumental from scratch, mixed and mastered it, animated it, and edited the whole thing together. All me baby, all me. This was my public singing debut as it were, so hopefully my voice was just about serviceable enough! There will be behind-the-scenes stuff on my Patreon soon.
Q: How long did this take to make?
A: I concepted the idea about 3 years ago. Fun fact: the first line I thought of was 'Our own developers don't want us to play', and that's about the only part that remained unchanged throughout the process. I started real production on this thing right after the YER SpyTalk, and have been on-and-off working on it for about 6 months? The animation took a little over 100 hours to make (I finally hit 1k SFM hours!) and that was definitely the longest part of the process. Turns out it takes a lot of time to animate a guy sat in a chair!
Q: Can I make an AI cover/voiceover of the song?
A: I'd rather you didn't.
Q: Is the song coming to Spotify/Apple music/Amazon music/etc.?
A: YES! Very soon! The track is being delivered as we speak, so stay tuned for the announcement!
Okay, I think that's about the most popular questions answered! Feel free to ask any more questions about the project in the comments of this post, or on the original video - I'll try and answer as many as I can!
Friendly reminder to check out my Patreon for the upcoming behind-the-scenes look at how I made the entire thing, or to check out my Discord server to come hang and chat.
Once again I cannot express my gratitude enough for how this project is being received. I have never felt more like my hard work has paid off, and I will still never understand the big numbers on my computer screen. Did you know they can go into SIX digits?? Crazy. Insanity.
I look forward to creating the next thing, eternally.
Love always,
-H <3
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Tomorrow.
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New thing out on Saturday.
Patrons can watch it now.
I hope you will enjoy.
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Spy guy. Right behind you.
Business: hintshotgames@gmail.com