Craft of Ambience

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of being a guest on a Gothic 2 Let's Play by german Youtuber ‪@HochkoenigYT‬ and the episode has now just released! ✌️😁

🙂 If you wanna listen to some smalltalk around Gothic 2, the Remake and other stuff you can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCLx2...

New content for this channel coming hopefully soon! Real life and some health problems are keeping me busy right now unfortunately 🥲

2 months ago | [YT] | 40

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New video release!!

Been hard at work the last couple of months putting together a new essay video. This time analysing the different approaches of art style between the original Gothic and the Remake as well as some very interesting references I stumbled upon when researching 18th century paintings, which one of the main concept artists for Gothic 1 specifcally mentioned as a major inspiration in past interviews.

And also sharing some of my hopes and worries for the upcoming remake :) hope you guys dig it!

You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYajM...

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6 months ago | [YT] | 20

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UPDATES & UPCOMING GOTHIC CONTENT

- New upcoming mix will be a bit of a revisit of the Old Camp Soundtrack. Wanted to create a new one that includes a few more tracks of the G1 Soundtrack than just Old Camp one on it's own :) You can also download the image in Wallpaper size on our Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/hXzV4vrdB8

- Thanks for all the support on the secondary channel! The first big video has been performing very well and even somehow made it's way to Kai Rosenkranz himself who even commented :o 🧡

- New content for the secondary channel is also underway. I have starting writing a new script and researching for more documentary style content around the early years of Piranha Bytes and how their special vision for Gothic formed

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9 months ago | [YT] | 98

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My first "non-ambience" Gothic content is finally here ❤️
You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n70E...

Thx for all the support so far :)

10 months ago | [YT] | 48

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Fellaaaas we got a big release day tomorrow!!!

6 long months of hard work will finally see the light of day in a mini documentary about how the devs of Gothic 1 managed to create a game that is still considered a blueprint for an immersive RPG experience (even more than 20 years later!).

I go into detail about how the original dev team around Mike Hoge managed to create something that the later Pyrana Bytes team seemingly chased for years and years, but where never able to truly replicate with their later franchises Risen and Elex. All packaged in the best I can offer in terms of editing, vfx, animation and sound design <3

I hopefully bring up a view points you haven't heard yet and analyse a few key points like quest design, world building, game design approaches and the importance of how the game handles NPC vs Hero characters. We also take a quick look at how some of those features contrast to what the modern developers of Witcher 3 focused on and in what areas Gothic 1 can still hold it's own nevertheless, even though it's a much older(!) and technically inferior game :)

The Video will be dropping 3pm (European time) on the secondary channel here: youtube.com/@craftofambience2

Don't miss it!

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10 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 70

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New Gothic Content coming next week! A 12 minute Essay Video on Gothic 1 which will be released on the secondary channel ❤️ Subscribe here if you don't wanna miss it: youtube.com/@craftofambience2
Put all my heart into it the past 6 months and tried to bring the best onto the table I can offer in terms of editing, animation, sound design and story telling. Let's hope it pays off :p

10 months ago | [YT] | 93

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UPDATES & UPCOMING GOTHIC CONTENT

- New Ambient Mix coming soon titles "Innos guides us". Not 100% sure which tracks will go into this but probably a lot of the G3 tracks I haven't covered yet :)


- Something I've put a toooon of work into the past months is the update to the The Discord Server. It now features a detailed roleplay and economy system where you can climb up the ranks and guilds of Gothic 2 while building up your wealth and collecting better and better quest rewards after you have become a citizen of Khorinis, or joined the Thieves Guild for example. We also have various funny Gothic characters as bots that join into conversations and talk to you in an appropriate style according to their character traits in Gothic ... AND also a 100% custom made and animated emoji set of various Gothic characters. It might just be the most elaborate Gothic themed Discord server out there? (Maybe?)

Here's the invite link if you wanna check it out https://discord.com/invite/hXzV4vrdB8


- My video essay on Gothic 1 is by far the most elaborate and time consuming project I've ever worked on for youtube for months and months and is now around 80% done. I've tried to bring something new to the table that you hopefully haven't seen yet in terms of analysis and also editing / sound design. You can check out multiple sneak peak clips of it on the Discord Server as well :)


- The Gothic 1 Audiobook I was woring on is not forgotten but will probably be released after the Remake when there is a bit more general attention floating around for Gothic 1. In the meantime I will probably focus more on video essay content around the original Gothic Games as that doesn't make that much sense to release after the Remake is out.

Anyways guys thanks for sticking around and being a fan of the channel! Exciting when I can finally release some of this new stuff :)

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1 year ago | [YT] | 116

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Patka98 just dropped a great article about fan re-interpretations of Kai Rosenkranz's Gothic Soundtracks, also mentioning this channel among some other super talented people. 💛 You can check it out here: https://gothic.org.pl/en/fanart-en/wonderful-world-of-gothic-music-a-review-fan-arrangements-of-kai-rosenkranzs-music/

1 year ago | [YT] | 46

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Screenshots from the newest video currently in producton for the secondary channel: youtube.com/@craftofambienceandatmosphere

A documentary style video essay titled "Why Gothic 1 exceeds at immersion even 20 years later" 💛

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1 year ago | [YT] | 70

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Channel update and new Gothic Content:

I've been thinking about making videos around the lore, theories, or analysis about Gothic 1 or 2 for a while now. Especially the ability of the earlier Piranha Byte games to craft a special kind of atmosphere and immersion still fascinates me today. So today finally marks the launch of a secondary channel which will be the new home for video essays centred around this.

First up is a short little video what the Gothic Remake could potentially look like if it was more faithful to the design decisions and art direction of the original Gothic.

youtube.com/@craftofambienceandatmosphere

Hope to see you there! 🧡

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1 year ago | [YT] | 91