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I graduated from "Walrus Fighting University" back in 2003 with one goal in mind... To wipe the stink of walruses from the face of the earth once and for all...

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Posted by Ghosty22 - November 22nd, 2008


So... I have some news. I'm not really sure if it's good or bad...

I was looking at what I have for Chanter Tales 1.3... Usually the episodes for Chanter Tales are around five minutes long, because they can get pretty big, and history seems to support the fact that a five-minute episode will meet the Newgrounds size constraints. So far, Chanter Tales 1.3 is 4 minutes and 15 seconds long. Which means that, if I'm going to keep the episode small and manageable enough to upload to Newgrounds, I'm going to have to end the episode in 45 seconds. And I still need to include some dialog in the middle of the cartoon that I haven't added yet. I can't chop it out, because it's important for the larger Chanter Tales story that encapsulates these smaller tales. So I have to make a decision. I could try to end the story in the remaining 45 seconds, which would probably force me to rush the ending and make it less interesting, or I could make a Chanter Tales 1.4, before moving on to 2.1. I really don't want to squeeze out any details that I like, but if I make a fourth part to this first tale, the forth part might be really short and inconsistent with the size of the other episodes. I'm not really sure if that matters... But the idea "feels" weird to me.

I think that what I'll do is finish the dialog in the middle, and then start working on the part before the final "showdown" and see how much time is remaining. Maybe I can just make the end conflict more elaborate or something. In the meantime, maybe you guys can let me know what you think of the situation, and I'll decide a little later. Right now, I think I'm leaning towards 4 episodes... It would mean that I'd put an episode out sooner, but, still, I don't like that the fourth episode would be short...


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Can't you ask someone who works for new grounds to give you more space? Like look at gun chest, that file is massive.

I suggest you make, 1.4 part and add some fillers to 1.3 and 1.4, maybe tou could make them both ~2.30 minutes or something close to that.