200 Subscribers!!!

Hi All!

I finished Uni on June 8th, took a brief holiday with my family, and had a week off from working on anything creative. I check YouTube almost every day and noticed the sub count continue to grow while Liam and Frank ran the channel as A.I. Industries.

Liam admitted to me on the 15th of June, before we recorded one of my Friday Night Fun videos, that the fact that the channel has been dormant for the past month is entirely his fault. Who can blame him. The guy has 14k subs! His work is very good and the AIM channel has been growing, so there haven't been any negative effects of neglecting the channel for a bit.

Nevertheless, we have a Majora's Mask recording session scheduled for Monday the 25th. If we don't discuss plans for AIM tomorrow (working on comics), then we will probably do so at the recording session. My thoughts currently are to do something to celebrate 200 subs, officially reintegrate Frank into the channel and rebrand ourselves as AIM again (hopefully with a new logo). I also want to revive Quasar, maybe A.M. as well. I want the three of us to have some discussions about how we're going to go about this new era that almost certainly awaits us.

We've been through a rough patch for the past four years, largely because of Frank's availability. It's broad to say that. Views have been up and down on occasion. In mid-2016 we declared ourselves officially IM and renamed everything. The first downturn in views, subscriber growth, and watch time was in 2016, followed by an incredible 2017 in which we skyrocketed from 47 to 113 subscribers. The trend continues in 2018 when we have now reached 200, a bigger growth than in 2017! Almost every year before 2017, we created a new show because one of us was unavailable. In 2013 we created IM, in 2014 AM, 2015 with AI, and 2016 with GM Industries. During a tough year for myself one of the things that I stuck to was uploading videos for AIM in 2017. However, this year is the first in my entire YouTube career (since 2010) that I stopped even making videos. I don't like centering the channel around myself, but this was obviously a key factor in the year so far.

I look forward to our Monday recording session. It will be a breath of fresh air after some head-down-bum-up time in the earlier part of this year. The road ahead is still foggy, but I have confidence for the time being. I always love to try new things so you'll never know what sort of stuff we might cook up in the time ahead.

Bye All!

Poke'mon Colosseum begins!

Hi All!

We were going to do Tomb Raider 2, but that didn't work. So we're doing Poke'mon Colosseum instead. The recording session got interesting fast. My favourite episode is episode 3. It will be out on the 25th of August.

Another thing that happened recently is we did a 4 year Anniversary video. I was drunk, so things got funny pretty quickly. If you're interested in how AIM came to be then that is the video you should watch as well as the Year in Review video we did at the end of last year.

 

 

Also because Sonic finished I was thinking maybe I could do a Best of Sonic Adventure DX video or make the next channel trailer because I get the feeling we're due for a new one.

 

Also, because fuck variety (I will write also another fifty times if I had fifty more things to say/), in the 4 year Anniversary video we briefly spoke about how the blog isn't regularly updated. If you think this blog is bad you should look at mine. We have a Twitter account, but for the most part it is just updates on when we upload videos. I prefer to receive emails from YouTube whenever a new AIM video comes out.

 

That's about it. We need to record more Left 4 Dead 2 and probably Quasar. Obviously at some point we will need to record more Worms for when Poke'mon Colosseum ends. Ok cool.

 

Bye All!

Friendship Over!

Hi All!

Last night we recorded the end of Synergy. At the time we were recording, Akirasora's family were preparing to move houses. What this means is that he won't be able to upload episodes of Quasar for the week while he and his family sort out moving into the new house and setting everything up.

Meanwhile I will be re-uploading old episodes of I.M. Industries. Synergy will still be uploaded as usual and so too will Sonic Adventure DX. So in simple terms the schedule is the same except there will be more I.M. Industries. This is only while Akirasora is re-establishing himself.

Bye All!

Why Quasar's background on the channel art is green.

That's a long title.

Hi All!
I thought I should do this post because some of you from the future may wonder the thing on the title.
Here's why: (Changed for correct spelling and punctuation)

I choose green because, from a graphic design standpoint, having distinct alternate colours helps greatly in defining each series. I choose green specifically because it's bright and very different from the other two.

None the less here's what it looks like with the other 3 colours.

 

Bye All!

Possible Paradox

Hey all!
It's Mabeanie and today I've been working a bit on a Quasar Trailer. Shhh!!!
Anyway, it involves time travel and I think I have written it improperly.

Quasar, coming soon...

Hi All!
Born out of Project Chocolate is Quasar; three views of the A.I.M. members trying to accomplish the same task in the same game. Commentary will be assisted with a topic to discuss and hopefully it will all be fun.

Also, I think that the faces on the logo look cute :3
Bye All!

Project Chocolate needs more things!

Hi All!

So today Ihasnotomato came over to my house and we recorded a bunch of Sonic Adventure DX for I.M. Industries. One of the things we spoke about during this day was Project Chocolate, so here are the main points:

• Name: Ihasnotomato wishes to change the name to something more official.
• Concept: He dislikes the idea of it being two guys playing the same game and not really doing anything specific, but he did like the idea of one certain goal that both players would be trying to achieve.
• My thoughts: I like Project Chocolate as it is, but I'm always welcoming to change. Change is fun.  With 2015 AIM being more professional and consistent I want the series we run to be specific and enjoyable, and changing the way Project Chocolate works is certainly a possible way of achieving that. My problem is that the series is one of our most popular ones and changing it could ruin that for the series.

So my ideas include integrating a Q&A part into the series where we answer questions sent by fans, and a game show idea which is actually limited to that; a "game show" rather than being anything in particular. It was also a bit of a joke suggestion.
If you have any ideas, feel free to voice them. Meanwhile we will continue to think about it and hopefully have some new version of the show put together by the time the next episode of Project Chocolate comes out.

Bye All!

We Need a Plan B

Hi All,
I've been playing around with the picture I last put up on the blog of a schedule which may or may not happen. We've tried, but I can't upload Game Dev Tycoon Part 2 until Frank's given me his view. I can't start doing my behind the scenes of Project T.O.M. because Liam hasn't given me access to his finished episode. So we have some IM Industries recordings which will probably be the only thing going up. I fully intend to upload the Top 10 of July as soon as the month ends which is Friday of next week.

• Monday - Frank (Project Chocolate)
• Tuesday - Liam (Project T.O.M./IM Industries)
• Wednesday - Mabeanie (IM Industries/Project T.O.M./Game Dev Tycoon)
• Thursday - Sims 3
• Friday - Nothing.

This schedule will start working next week on the 27/7/2014.
Bye All!

Upcoming Projects and Who's Editing Them

Hi All,
Let's just dive into this!

Upcoming Project - Who's Editing Them
Project Chocolate Editor - Frank (Akirasora)
Game Dev Tycoon Editor - Mabeanie

Liam has already done his Making Of for Project T.O.M. so that's his work done. The Top 10 of June will be up in the second week, sorry. The Game Dev Tycoon second session will be up the Wednesday after that and Frank should have Project Chocolate edited by then and so that will be up on Monday, Thursday or Friday depending on how soon he finishes the editing. Then there will be my second making of for Project T.O.M. Here's a picture:

 

The first yellow is the last part of my first making of.

So it looks like we're gonna have to do a lot of recording for AIM. Mainly because the tennis just doesn't cut out the whole month. We need at least 10 videos to have a good month.

I'll let this sink in and brew.

 

Bye All!

~Mabeanie

Updated Channel and Thoughts of a New Series

Hello all,
It's Mabeanie here to tell you that I've updated the channel to the new layout.

Yes, I know the layout is awful.

I personally am not fussed, although it does limit the amount of art displayed on the channel page itself and instead shows more of YouTube than we'd like.

So there is a new Banner that I tested on my own channel to make sure it works before updating the AIM one. There is also a new list of playlists including the Minecraft series, Behind the Scenes and the Versus series.

Might be limited to those but I've made myself a rule that I can't use YouTube on days other than Friday and Saturday.

 

Meanwhile we are thinking about a new series where we do things while recording.

it will divide the viewers yes but then people could go, "oh yes, I get to see ihasnotomato's tf2 inventory"
or "I get to see how Mabeanie does those epic edits"
or "I get to see Frank pick his nose"

~Mabeanie, 3/04/2013 6:43pm 

That's it for now, bye!

~Mabeanie