If everyone’s doing video podcasts, why aren’t we?
Everyone says the same thing. “You’ve got to do video.” Apparently if you’re not on YouTube or TikTok or whatever else people are scrolling through on mute, you don’t exist. Doesn’t matter how sharp the conversation is. Doesn’t matter how good the content is. If there’s no footage, it’s invisible.
We’ve heard it. We’re not ignoring it. We’re just not rushing in.
There’s a reason this started as an audio-first project. We wanted to get the format right. Get the tone right. Build a system that works without breaking every week. Adding video on top of that, while we’re still locking in structure, pacing, and production? That’s just inviting more problems. And not the fun kind we can joke about in an episode.
Video isn’t just “stick a camera on and hit record.” It’s lighting, framing, camera quality, compression, upload schedules, and about fifty other things that take time away from actually making the show. And let’s be honest, we don’t need four badly lit heads in rectangles talking over each other. That’s not content. That’s surveillance footage.
Most of us aren’t exactly desperate to be on camera either. We didn’t get into this for self-promotion. We got into it because we’ve been around games long enough to have thoughts that go beyond the usual cheerleading. That works better in audio. It’s stripped down. It’s focused. And it’s easier to keep consistent across time zones, work schedules, and general life chaos.
Then there’s the editing. Audio is already time-consuming. Video multiplies that. Suddenly you’re worrying about jump cuts, dead air, eye contact, lip sync. You spend more time polishing than creating. And when the result is just a slightly more awkward version of what we already said clearly on mic, what’s the point?
We’re not ruling it out forever. There might be a future where we do special video episodes. Developer interviews. Roundtable discussions. Maybe some behind-the-scenes stuff when we’re not all knackered. But it won’t be the main thing. The main thing is the podcast. The conversation. The tone.
There are thousands of active gaming podcasts. There are hundreds of thousands of YouTube channels trying to do the same thing with video. Most of it blends together. We’d rather focus on making something sharp and sustainable before we start worrying about camera angles.
This project is built around clarity and honesty. If we add video, it has to help with that not distract from it. Right now, it would just get in the way. So we’re staying focused. Making the show better instead of more “visible.” Visibility can come later. Quality can’t.
And if it turns out that people won’t listen unless they can watch something too? That says more about the state of attention spans than it does about this podcast.
Do you actually watch video podcasts, or just let them play while doing something else?
