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[true hatch]

So I'm doing one of those 100 Day gaming challenges for Project Zomboid. I wanted to know which thumbnail looked best. Are the thumbnails too wordy? Are they too hard too read? Feedback would be appreciated.

[snow elbow]

right top corner prob

[tacit phoenix]

gotta figuire out the title first 💀

@true hatch whats the title?

or give like 3 variations of it

[true hatch]

Something like:

"Can you survive 100 days with the zombie Hivemind?"

[tacit phoenix]

i dont play the game, but would this be something people recognise? is it like an actual sprite in the game?

[true hatch]

The brains are actual icons in game, but the hexs I added myself. A hive pattern since it's a hive-mind y'know?

Is it too much?

[tacit phoenix]

the hexagon shouldent be too much

possibly something like this, where the brown blobs is a huge swarm of zombies and have your player in the middle and make the grass more vibrant

and then text saying "100 DAYS" on top
and then "HIVEMIND" at the bottom

or even just 100 days at the top

i have an image in mind that ill try to find thats exactly what im thinking

[true hatch]

I kind of get it.

[tacit phoenix]

something like this

but with the game

[true hatch]

OH! Okay. I see.

[tacit phoenix]

and then have your player with a drop shadow or something that makes it stand out

[true hatch]

Noted.

[tacit phoenix]

is it called zombie hivemind? or just hivemind

[true hatch]

The game itself? The game is called Project Zomboid. I'm just calling the challenge for the video a hive-mind.

[tacit phoenix]

i mean like the effect

is it like a hivemind gamemode

[true hatch]

Oh! Gotcha. Yeah, it's changes the zombie behavior to act as a hive-mind. Meaning every zombie the player comes across all experience the same thing at all times. They can hear, see, smell the same.

[tacit phoenix]

ohh gotcha

hmm

yea i think the title is good

although i might try AB testing using

Can you survive 100 days with the zombie Hivemind - Project Zomboid

Can you survive 100 days with the zombie Hivemind

Can you survive 100 days with the zombie Hivemind in Project Zomboid

see which varient works best

[true hatch]

Gotcha gotcha.

[tacit phoenix]

thats all i have 😄 good luck on the video 😄

[true hatch]

Big thanks, I appreciate the feedback!

[tacit phoenix]

yea np!

[tacit phoenix]

lmk how it turns out

[true hatch]

Will do.

[true hatch]

@tacit phoenix So I did your idea. How's it look?

I got the inpiration from this thumbnail:

[tacit phoenix]

hmmm more cirble

circle

the font is harder to read

as well

[true hatch]

Thanks, here's that fixed:

[tacit phoenix]

i mean like, is it possible to do this

but in a field and your character is in the center

and there is grass arouind it

although try this one as well and do ab testing

[tacit phoenix]

did you try my idea yet

trust me lol it would work better

[tacit phoenix]

did you change it yet?

[true hatch]

The thumbnail? No, it's really difficult to get a perfect ring of zombies.

[tacit phoenix]

see if you can photoshop it

its worth it

trust me

[true hatch]

I'll see what I can do.

[true hatch]

This is the best I can manage.

[covert lily]

top right is much better to look at. the others are a little to bland.

[tacit phoenix]

try to photoshop it so there is a grass circle around the player

also the font is too fonty

[tacit phoenix]

the green circle is important

[true hatch]

I'm not good enough with photoshop to figure it out. The best I could do was something like this:

I'll stick with the thumbnail I already made. I'll just change the font and maybe get rid of the hexgon brains.

[tacit phoenix]

bro im tellin you

[true hatch]

Thanks for being persistant, but video is out now. Too late to change the thumbnail. Sorry.

https://youtu.be/aaKYZX0TRHk

[tacit phoenix]

what do you mean too late to change the thumbnail?

@true hatch

[true hatch]

The video is finished and published. Why would I need to change the thumbnail?

[polar kite]

Changing a thumbnail, especially one that's higher quality and just in general better looking, can get you more impressions and clicks % of said impression score.

[true hatch]

Oh. Good to know. I'm not gonna change the thumbnail because I moved on from that project. But I'll keep it in mind for future videos.

[tacit phoenix]

That’s.. wdym you moved on from the project.

I’m so confused

[regal tide]

How is that confusing?

[tacit phoenix]

because there is so much improvement that could be made and its still possible to just make a small thumbnail edit and potentially get 2-10x more views than hes getting on the video right now

[regal tide]

Oh

[tacit phoenix]

yea

[regal tide]

by the way

would you mind if you could rate some of my content? in #1210618571042856990

[regal tide]

And I just recently started over so yea.

[tacit phoenix]

i might take a look after im done writing a video script

itl be a bit