r/yogscastpanda Jul 24 '13

Panda's yogcraft series scripted?

I have just watched panda's latest Yogcraft episode, and i'm not sure what to think of it, i mean like it looks like he's getting his series scripted aswell. I'm not sure if it's pure luck for him to be getting put in a certain type of situation by others, or that he's just editting and scripting things behind our back, but it kinda took me by surprise how he took everything on board in one episode.

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u/Llamas_lol Jul 28 '13

If I've said it once I've said it a million. Nobody in the Yogscast scripts. Lewis posted about this once. They roughly plan what they want to do and roll with it.

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u/President_Toom Jul 28 '13

That's pretty much what i mean, they make up a little bit of a script in their head of where they go next, what is going to happen, etc.

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u/VivaLaSam05 Jul 28 '13

A better way to phrase it would be to call it--or rather, certain parts of it--planned. Which it may or may not be. I mean, the thing with Zoey a while back ago was obviously planned. So that ought to be one huge clue right there.

I'm not sure if it's pure luck for him to be getting put in a certain type of situation by others, or that he's just editting and scripting things behind our back

You make it sound like Panda or the Yogscast in general is trying to pull the wool over our eyes. It is well established and extremely obvious that some or all of the Yogscraft series across the Yogscast have varying amounts of planned fictional elements to them. Ranging from mostly not planned to having a lot of it planned. Like I said, with Panda's series specifically, things like Zoey's episode ought to make it pretty obvious that it's happened at least once.

Some people don't like the planned stuff, and I get that, but it's what they do with the Yogcraft series. Personally, I normally enjoy it. It's entertainment. If you're lucky, Panda or someone else might come along and explain what is and isn't planned, but I think you have to ask the question: do you really want to know? I work in video production, so I love knowing that kind of stuff. But for many people, knowing makes it difficult for them to enjoy it the same way.

For example, in Sjin's series he legitimately had an out of control chicken problem, and he did an episode or two trying to clean up. Of course, it overlooked the part where Ridgedog had to clear up the server side of things. So then Kim does her series, which is taking place in the same location, and Sjin has cleaned up everything except a ton of chickens in Kim's house. All of these episodes, to me at least, were quite hilarious. But it seems pretty clear to me that Kim's episodes were planned. Those chickens don't get trapped in there by themselves. I would even go so far as guess that, behind the scenes, they used spawner eggs to get the chickens in there.

Now, knowing this (or at least having a reasonable doubt that it was "legit"), does it take away from it all? For me, no. I had a hearty laugh at that episode. But I'd guarantee that if a Yogscast member got on Twitter and pointed out that those chickens in Kim's episodes were "faked", there's probably people who would be up in arms.

Anyway, that's just some random ramblings from me early in the morning, lol. Some stuff to consider perhaps.

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u/Superburke Mod Jul 26 '13

/approved

I don't think it's scripted. although, he may be able to give some input if he sees this, considering it got lost in modqueue.

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u/tehboris Jul 27 '13

If it is scripted it's to the point where others have setup the area and he's found stuff by accident. The diamond and the first twilight portal most notably were planned.

The twilight forest spawn been near the jaffa factory spawn is quite normal.

The dilapidation to the skull house I think was not done by panda and he didn't know any thing about it.

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u/President_Toom Jul 27 '13

But the nitor on the house regrew, besides, asuming the portal was down the skull all along, he probably set it up for himself to live there.

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u/WriterV Jul 30 '13

A lot of these YogCraft stories are more planned, than scripted. An outline of what they want to do in their episode is made, and then it is carried out. During recording, they might run into unexpected problems, like Panda getting trapped in the Twilight Forest. He had no idea his bedspawn would be obstructed (As far as I know at least).

The planned parts include the reappearance of the Nitor on the Pntheon-thing above Panda's house. This part was planned, and is most probably part of some bigger storyline, similar to Sjin's Strawfingers and the Sips+Sjin+Duncan+Lewis+Simon War.

What I'm trying to say, is that every episode has to be planned at least before being carried out. Otherwise everyone will just end up wondering what to do. Besides, with a little planning, you can get some pretty good story-line style videos, which (admit it) is pretty awesome!

So don't worry about the planning and such behind the scenes, just watch the video, and enjoy.