"Holidays"

Hi All,
While I'm waiting for the Top 10 Videos and Video Of The Month of May, I realised that I haven't properly filled everyone in on what's been happening with AIM lately.

Firstly the TF2 series has gone well so far, and we've even recorded more, and the thumbnails just seem to get better every time. Definitely a good change in pace, making every video special.

Secondly there was a week of no videos being a thing, because Ihasnotomato was on holiday to Darwin for a bit (I'll embed his tweets), and now that Liam's back from holidays he has Uni stuff to work on and so he's got less time to upload videos. Our holiday times are out of sync; so when mine begin, his end.  There is more Civ 5 and Banjo-Kazooie that has not been uploaded yet, but we'll have to rearrange the schedule once Banjo-Kazooie is over and we'll definitely continue the Civ 5 game.

So just letting you know I've gone to Darwin for a week so I'm afraid there will be no uploads this week

— Ihasnotomato (@Ihasnotomato) June 11, 2016

Toot toot motherfuckers I'm on a train

— Ihasnotomato (@Ihasnotomato) June 15, 2016

Lastly, we have not been able to record more Poke'mon lately because I've been involved in my house's renovations and so there's no full day to set aside. We might be able to arrange recording sessions for a few hours a day, but the problem is that I'm not in charge of the renovations and so I can't predict or arrange for the renovations to not take place. I can merely seize opportunities as they present themselves. Meanwhile, anything online multiplayer will be a better choice, so maybe more TF2 or Gmod or something.

Sorry about there being no @aimindustries videos in the last few days. @ihasnotomato is back and we're hoping to record some more tf2 soon.

— Mabeanie Beanie (@MrMabeanie) June 25, 2016

More TF2 on its way next week! Pretty revolutionary actually.

— A.I.M. Industries (@AIMindustries) June 25, 2016

So for me they're not really holidays at all.

Bye All!

Holy Show: New Stuff

Not a fan of swearing.

Hi All,

There will be a new show on AIM next week featuring Ihasnotomato and I playing Team Fortress 2. The thumbnails will be amazing:

Oops, I need to fix the second one. They look freaking awesome and are colour contrasted, just to prove that doing Art wasn't a total waste of time in High School.

That's pretty much it.
Bye All!

Just a little update

Hi All,

It's been a while and a few things have happened so I thought I should do an update to let you all know what exactly is going on.

I went to a party with Liam on the weekend just gone and he acknowledged that he missed a day of uploading Civ 5. He did upload that weekend's episode though, but I wonder if he plans to upload the one he missed. In the video manager it shows that he attempted to upload two episodes; episode 13 and 14 of Civ 5. I don't know what went wrong, but obviously 14 failed and so he had to upload it again.

We've both been very busy with University, as its the end of the semester and so stuff's getting tense with major assessments and tests. Nevertheless we are both approaching the last assessments we have to do and from what I heard from Liam coupled with my own study situation, we should be able to do another recording session either late next week or the week after, depending on when my only exam is.

I did get worried that we weren't getting any views on Poke'mon Colosseum and so I thought that we should try to draw more attention to the series. It took a few days for all the episodes that didn't have any views to increase to 1 view, so I'm satisfied.

I don't know how many episodes of Banjo-Kazooie are left, but the number of episodes we have left of any series are one of the key factors in determining what we record as well as where.

That's everything. I did tweet about a few episodes that we've uploaded which I thought were pretty good, so I'll embed them in this post.

Bye All!

I like this episode. https://t.co/JkECQwkYwe

— Mabeanie Beanie (@MrMabeanie) May 17, 2016

New stuff

Hi All,

Yesterday I went to Ihasnotomato's house where we recorded some Banjo-Kazooie for AIM as well as Cooking with Kylo Ren; the first skit for STAIM WAIM.
While I was there I made him make the new AM logo and now I have just applied it to the blog background.
It feels like there's a lot to talk about, but there isn't. STAIM WAIM skits will come out when we think of new ideas. Banjo-Kazooie will be uploaded in addition to Poke'mon Colosseum and Civ 5. We have no plans to record more Banjo-Kazooie as we only played it because Ihasnotomato needed to get back up to where he was at in his Let's Play, but he didn't really feel like doing so.

Bye All!

PS: Liam's thinking about making a new AIM logo.

Ihasnotomato editing Civ 5

Hi All!

It has certainly appeared that I edit and upload pretty much all of the AIM stuff at the moment because it's all recorded at my house. This changed on the day we last recorded Poke'mon and Civilization 5 when Ihasnotomato offered to edit Civ 5, which will be an interesting thing to see happen. He has a different editing style to me and at the same time the recording session was very different to the last one, so I certainly look forward to seeing his episodes.

Thanks and Bye!

Lessons of the Top 10 Videos and Video Of The Month series

Hi All,

The purpose of the Top 10 series has always been to evaluate our progress as a channel and reflect on what works and what doesn't as a way of explaining why thinks worked out the way they did.

It also serves as a historical series that shows the past and allows us to reflect on the present and more recent past. In addition it functions as the only video series any subscriber would need to watch as it features the best moments (according to us) in every video we upload each month.

Finally I have decided to analyse all of the Top 10 videos and see where we fell short. Here are my conclusions:

• We need to upload at least 10 videos per month.
• We need to upload a variety of videos; meaning a full schedule of AIM, IM and Quasar at least.

The best month for us was August 2015 when we did the 4 year anniversary video with it reaching 18 views and having 10 videos uploaded that month.

The worst month was November 2015 where we uploaded 3 videos, all of which were IM Industries and the number 1 video reached 2 views.

We will continue to do the Top 10 videos.

Bye All!

Probable A.M. Industries logo

Sweet Jesus, 2016 Channel Art Complete!

EDIT: I posted these pictures before I asked Liam to fix the spelling.

The Trapinch Trilogy

 From Poke'mon Colosseum - ep. 36: Tysplosive Controversy
Credit for Trapinch 3: http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss252/ChocoboKing2009/Trapinch.jpg

I Don't Know

Hi All,

On Saturday I uploaded the first episode of Civilization 5. It's done really well so far with 15 views last time I checked. So that's probably going to be #1 in the Top 10 of February. Because it's done so well I don't know if we're doing the wrong thing with sticking to our unofficial schedule of Monday Wednesday and Friday being Poke'mon and Saturday being Civ 5 and later on another game we recorded on Sunday.

On Sunday we got to talk to Frank, and luckily Liam recorded a bit of our conversation before we lost connection with him. We didn't discuss AIM stuff with Frank, and since then we haven't heard from him.

I'll do the Top 10 of February on the weekend depending on if YouTube has calculated everything or not. I've picked the location, so it should be fairly easy to do.

I'm back at Uni now, but that shouldn't impact uploading too much because I'll be home most of the time.

That's pretty much everything.

Bye All!