Happy New Year From RestlessBloom !
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2024 is here and so is the time for our seasonal blog update. This post is our official update to viewers on what content to expect next on our gaming channel and we have some exciting announcements for our viewers. We’ll also take a look back at some highlights of the year at the end of the post.
New Ultrawide Content
Our channel has been sharing videos in all formats to our viewers, and a new horizon is ready to be explored. Ultrawide videos are displayed in a 21:9 ratio that is used in Cinema. For viewers with the Ultrawide monitors, this will mean we will have content that will fill your wide screen! The wider field of view should be a fun experience for any device, that will bring a new feel for gaming experiences to all our viewers. We will still continue to share videos in 16:9 and the vertical 9:16 shorts as well to have something for everybody.
There are a couple of Ultrawide videos released already for Sims fans. And this year we will be sharing a special edited series on Skyrim utilizing the wider display! Don’t expect anything this season, but we’re also excited to revisit Cyberpunk’s Night City for some fun Ultrawide shots in the future.
If you are watching on a standard device, Ultrawide videos will appear slimmer in design, but still present a wider field of view in the images
What to expect in 2024?
I think we can all agree 2023 was an absolute wild ride for gaming! In fact it was so overwhelming, we couldn’t even play games fast enough, never mind edit them.
We did promise Cities Skylines fans we’d be sharing content on its recent sequel, and that is still a plan! Paradox will be seeing a double feature this year as they have caught our attention with both Cities Skylines 2 and their upcoming life simulator, Life By You where will be sharing some footage from their early access.
These games mentioned will all be shared as videos that will have been recorded and edited before making it to YouTube.
On live stream, we will back this year to share the original Life is Strange and Tell Me Why, both by the French Studio Dontnod.
We do have some more plans for games we’d like to share, but we’ll keep some secrets with us for the next seasonal update 😀
Fans of our other series can also expect some new content too, so don’t worry!
Sims is the type of game we will always go back to, and we even have some projects in editing at the moment.
Changing how we Share
In the last year, we have made quite the audience on the shorts feed, where we’ve learned a lot in the process of editing and experimenting with new video ideas that we plan to expand into longer formats.
Our last blog post did already touch on this update, our goal going forward to change how we catalogue our library for viewers.
To keep it simple, Lives and Shorts are going to continue as they have been, and videos will be seeing some new updates, such as the Ultra-wide formatting, and new projects that we’ll be recording off screen and bringing to YouTube with more editing than is possible from trimming a live stream.
YouTube’s editor now allows us to perform hundreds of trims to a video after sharing a live stream! So this will allow us to continue the gameplay videos we’ve currently shared on the channel in the Live Stream section and allow for an even higher quality of content to now fill the video section.
2024 will be a transitionary year for our content where we will be finishing out series like Mass Effect and Hogwarts Legacy on their weekly release schedules while integrating this new style of content.
Community
For some fun we asked our community to see how you game. You can find future polls either on your own homepage or by checking on the community tab on our channel page
Understanding the Release Schedule
We have been sharing our videos on a weekly release schedule for most series. This will continue with any series we have already started in 2023 or earlier. We’d also like more freedom in our schedule to show new projects that will be filling days we have ended weekly releases for. Just a reminder, any game we feature on our channel always has a chance to see more content in the future too
Our current release schedule will continue as we finish what is on schedule
| Sunday : Mass Effect Trilogy | |
| Monday : *Weekly Schedule closed, still possible to see new videos | |
| Tuesday : Life is Strange Series | |
| Wednesday : Hogwarts Legacy | |
| Thursday *Indie Day *On break, we’ll highlight more indie games throughout the year | |
| Friday : Starfield | |
| Saturday : Off |
We mentioned a few new titles we’ll be sharing with fans in the section above and in addition to this and the schedule you can expect to still see videos from the Sims series, Riders Republic, Session, and Grand Theft Auto
New Games to the channel
We’re very excited to dive back into Skyrim again featured at the top of this post. The latest release by Bethesda is something we have also started to share on the channel. Starfield we have been streaming on Twitch where we’re able to edit our videos before they’re shared to YouTube! We already have a good headway into the playlist and some shorts videos for fans of the game.
Starfield videos have been releasing every Friday and we even are still playing our first play through now, so there will be videos still being made after this post.
Sims 3
Our channel first started sharing content from The Urbz Sims in the City which has found a very friendly community of you who also loved the early 2000s spin off. Slowly over time we are trying to share more from the series on the channel. And the transition from last year has us going back in time again to the Sims 3. We aren’t ready to share our video series yet, but we’ll also be visiting the Sims Medieval for what is our first experience!
In 2023 we created lots of new content for Sims fans in our Sims Shorts Series for fans of Sims 4 and more Urbz Sims in the City content
Baldur’s Gate 3
Voted Game of the year and undoubtedly a fun new experience for gamers, we explored the fantasy RPG last year in what’s now a completed playlist of our first experience. Although we shared them in live streams we have gone through all the footage with hundreds of edits per video to share the best video we can. We learned the hard way with this series, that YouTube videos over 6 hours are too long for editing XD So there are two videos in this playlist where you will see the raw videos to see the difference our edits make
We share this experience playing a co-op adventure. For the viewer we have sped up all of our decision making, failed paths, and any loading that may disrupt a viewing experience. It is possible we may share more videos of this game in the future as well as more shorts
Underground Music Mix ’23
We have began a tradition on our channel of sharing a unique playlist for each year that feature some of the music video mixes we’ve made.
Last year we shared Gaming Grooves 22 with 22 tracks from 2022.
This playlist tries to only share a few videos at most from each game we share on the channel to expose viewers to a little bit of everything we’ve worked on in 2023. And if you like a particular series, we will have more content for that game on the channel.
We’ll begin building a new 2024 playlist as we make new videos this year! And the latest playlist may add/remove and alter the order of the playlist until it is marked as complete at the end of the year
Thank You
By sharing our favorite gaming experiences it’s always fun to connect to new people who share the same interests. We don’t expect viewers to like everything we post to our channel, so we appreciate you for letting us share our favorite experiences in story telling whether or not you like the same ones. There’s a lot of negativity online these days, and creating a place to share love is our biggest goal with this channel.
Hogwarts Legacy and Cyberpunk saw a lot of controversy, yet we found most of our subscribers through these very games, so we know there’s others that feel the same and just want to have fun.
Thanks for being with us and all the best
How to Support Us
We’re not aware of any scammers who have impersonated our channel, but to make an official note to our viewers. We will never do giveaways, ask for any personal information, or otherwise reach out to you to ask for anything.
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Channel Memberships our like a cheap subscription service YouTube has designed where for a couple of dollars a month you can support us directly on YouTube. Over time we may offer some additional priced tiers to include additional content for fans. We were thinking of maybe one day removing some of our lesser quality videos to keep available only for members who would be interested in exploring more of our content. For right now, our YouTube membership only offers a $1.99 that should currently be most thought of as a donation. The small perks you currently get our a unique badge next to your name when commenting on our channel to show you as a supporter. And a few custom emojis that are subject to change and our first members can suggest any that may wish to use
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Due to a hacking incident with our PayPal, we will no longer be sharing our link as a donation in our blog posts. So simply put, all support can be made directly on YouTube 🙂
Thank you again!
Restless Bloom 
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