I would personally say that an hour and a half is a bit on the long side - my thoughts is that 30 - 40 minutes is a good episode length
I agree - an hour tops is what I aim for generally, but even with copious edits the episodes can easily end up going well over that. I think it's mainly the nature of the series - I'm playing a full rank in one episode, and they're all levels I've never played before. My first attempt at solving levels is almost never my best (as you've clearly seen!), so these episodes are largely me scrabbling to put just about any solution I can find together, and I often spend far longer on levels than I actually need to.
Two things occur to me here: 1) Maybe it's worth me taking a quick glance at each level first before recording, so my subconscious can get to work on a solution for the levels which are the least obvious, and then the recording will be quicker and the episodes therefore shorter. However, 2) I think that doing it this way might take something away from the fact that what you're seeing in these episodes is me taking the levels on for the first time! Maybe there's been enough of that so far, though...
What do other people think about this? Your opinions do matter, please share!
Also, each episode takes well over 2 hours to film and then probably double that to edit. It's a lot of work, so...
I've put up a poll to get an idea of viewership of the series so far.If people are enjoying the series, then I'll continue with
the full list of packs in the OP. If not, or if interest is fairly low, I might limit it to 8 or 10 episodes and just choose a few more that I definitely want to cover in this series.
Either way, my next video series is definitely going back to the shorter format of my
Pause-free Playthroughs! - these were
much quicker to film, edit, and of course watch. I think shorter videos are better suited to my presentation style as well.
Then again, I could well be overthinking all of this. Comments, discussion and feedback are, again, very welcome...