History TroubledProduction / WebOriginal

* It was mentioned that a few stories in the ''MetamorKeep'' universe fell flat on their faces because of this. One author suffered a brain aneurysm, and another came down with pneumonia.

* As WebVideo/AngryJoe notes in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwTjHXiN4qw Top 10 Gaming controversies of 2014]] video, the aborted Mountain Dew Game Jam with him, LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}, LetsPlay/CaptainSparklez, [[LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}} Strippin]] and WebVideo/JonTron turned out to be this. While the concept of a Game Jam is that of relaxed, friendly competition, the team leaders and indie devs had to deal with an [[ExecutiveMeddling overbearing producer]] sent by Mountain Dew and not reined in by Maker/Polaris until it was too late. Joe notes how the producer was determined to turn the game jam into a reality show and would try to put people against each other, encourage [[ThePrimaDonna prima donna behavior]], would try to start arguments and asked sexist questions to female devs in order to create a "battle of the sexes" dilemma. Joe notes how he laughed in the producer's face over the latter's insistence that he drink [[ProductPlacement Mountain Dew]], how Markiplier looked at the producer like he was stupid when he tried to do a battle of the sexes in his team, and how Zoe Quinn and [=JonTron=] refused to turn a minor misunderstanding into a grudge plotline. Combined with arbitrary challenges, [[note]] One challenge was trying to develop the game for 30 minutes ''without electricity''. [[/note]] it proved nigh impossible to actually get work done. Eventually, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere over half the developers quit]] and the jam was shut down after ''one day''. Joe notes that production costs ranged somewhere between $250,000 to '''$400,000''' for a Game Jam that doesn't exist.

** While the [[WebVideo/TGWTGYearOneBrawl Brawl]] wasn't as bad, it still had problems. In a blog post, [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Lindsey Ellis]] said that the reviewers had yet to form [[TrueCompanions the sense of camaraderie]] that there was in later crossovers, plus, among other things, an unnamed reviewer (implied to be [[spoiler:[[UnPerson That Aussie Guy]]]]) spread lies about Lindsey's sex life.

* As WebVideo/AngryJoe notes in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwTjHXiN4qw Top 10 Gaming controversies of 2014]] video, the aborted Mountain Dew Game Jam with him, WebVideo/{{Markiplier}}, WebVideo/CaptainSparklez, [[WebVideo/{{Yogscast}} Strippin]] and WebVideo/JonTron turned out to be this. While the concept of a Game Jam is that of relaxed, friendly competition, the team leaders and indie devs had to put up with an [[ExecutiveMeddling overbearing producer]] sent by Mountain Dew and not reined in by Maker/Polaris until it was too late. Joe notes how the producer was determined to turn the game jam into a reality show and would try to put people against each other, encourage [[ThePrimaDonna prima donna behavior]], would try to start arguments and asked sexist questions to female devs in order to create a "battle of the sexes" dilemma. Joe notes how he laughed in the producer's face over the latter's insistence that he drink [[ProductPlacement Mountain Dew]], how Markiplier looked at the producer like he was stupid when he tried to do a battle of the sexes in his team, and how Zoe Quinn and [=JonTron=] refused to turn a minor misunderstanding into a grudge plotline. Combined with arbitrary challenges, [[note]] One challenge was trying to develop the game for 30 minutes ''without electricity''. [[/note]] it proved nigh impossible to actually get work done. Eventually, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere over half the developers quit]] and the jam was shut down after ''one day''. Joe notes that production costs ranged somewhere between $250,000 to '''$400,000''' for a Game Jam that doesn't exist.

** While the Brawl wasn't as bad, it still had problems. In a blog post, [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Lindsey Ellis]] said that the reviewers had yet to form [[TrueCompanions the sense of camaraderie]] that there was in later crossovers, plus, among other things, an unnamed reviewer (implied to be [[spoiler:[[UnPerson That Aussie Guy]]]]) spread lies about Lindsey's sex life.

* WebVideo/ThatDudeInTheSuede's review of the 4th Pokemon movie had to be this for sure. Jesuotaku and Suede were already quite busy beforehand, making scheduling recording quite hard. Not all the details have been made clear, but the suicide of former Channel Awesome contributor JewWario ''had'' to have made production awkward. The final cut of the review featured JewWario's voice for about the first 3 minutes. It is unknown if it is all of the audio he had recorded or the episode, and he had to be written out using some clever dialogue. His voice is clearly someone else trying to do an impression of him during the last few seconds in order to get him out of the review.

** Similarly, not as bad as the other examples, the MAGfest review of TheLastAirbender turned out to be incredibly difficult and rushed. A detailed explanation of all the problems and issues is in the commentary, but, for starters, that shot of the DVD case with TheLastAirbender in it hitting the ground which lasts less than one second? It took them something like fifty takes to get that one shot.

** ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}''. Almost everyone involved was injured somehow, the worst being cameraman Rob Walker getting a nasty leg injury on the first day, but he was still quite a {{Determinator}} as he kept cramming himself into tight places and waiting until filming was over to seek any medical attention. Also, LordKat twisted both his ankles, which forced his role to be severely reduced, and the extremely tight four day filming schedule meant that the climax had to be significantly trimmed down, with scenes like [[NoahAntwiler Spoony]] revealing himself to still be Insano never being filmed.

* With Let'sPlays in general, it's also common for somebody to lose footage or desync. ''GO!'' gets hit with this the worst, as everybody is playing separate games so they can't use someone else's footage to fill it in. It's not unusual to see somebody's footage replaced by a black screen saying "This footage was lost", even if they win.

** It's also common for somebody to lose footage or desync. ''GO!'' gets hit with this the worst, as everybody is playing separate games so they can't use someone else's footage to fill it in. It's not unusual to see somebody's footage replaced by a black screen saying "This footage was lost", even if they win.

* On a smaller scale, the big crossover review between WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] and [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] for ''Film/AloneInTheDark2005''. To begin with, Doug Walker had lost his voice the day before Spoony and Linkara arrived in Chicago (hence the use of [[SyntheticVoiceActor text-to-speech]]). Secondly, construction work was being done outside Doug's house, so they had to film the review in Doug's basement. In addition, they didn't decide which UweBoll movie to review until the day they started writing. Spoony gives the scoop [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2009/09/10/alone-in-the-dark-noahs-commentary/ here]].

* The FanFilm series ''Franchise/{{Bionicle}}: The Next Generation'' (also known as ''Bionicle: Retold'') currently resides deep in DevelopmentHell because of this. It started out as an ambitious 3D animation film project on the BZPower forums, shortly before the forum server crashed. The project was moved to a new site, and it was decided that instead of feature-length films, they would make a series of shorts. The modeling had to be started over because the older models suffered from problems. Then, the project leaders left one by one, along with many other disillusioned members. When the BZPower forum came back, the community branded the project a futile undertaking. Since the team struggled with the 3D CGI, they held a contest to decide if 2D would be a better tool. Only the 2D team managed to get a video short done, effectively proving that the 3D angle has been doomed from the start. The new project leader then tried to sort out the whole thing and start over from scratch with more realistic goals, before leaving himself. Currently, it seems that if the project does go on, it will only produce smaller video short instead of an actual on-line series.

* ''WebVideo/AnotherDeadHero'' had himself a rough case of this with his first episode ''[[ChildrenOfTheCorn Children Of The Corn 3: Urban Harvest]]'', which due to not only computer troubles with his editing software going haywire, but also the finished episode becoming so corruptible, he couldn't save it, making it a [[LostForever lost episode]]. It took him till a couple more months before he released his first official released review, part one of ''Necronomicon: Book of the Dead''. Though, now he's kinda ran into this again, due to losing the camera he used to film the episode and the next two.

* The Year 2 and 3 Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses anniversary {{Massive Multiplayer Crossover}}s:

** ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' had the smoothest production time, but it wasn't without its problems. The biggest hurdle was the majority of the cast filming a 3-hour film in the span of a week, leaving little time for rest. Doug was forgoing sleep and food to finish filming and was getting very emotional while filming his scenes. This was partly due to him incorrectly assuming that he was putting the other actors through too much stress. Post-production was also troublesome, as there were problems uploading the files. This resulted in each part being released every three days rather than once a day as the previous two specials.

* Episodes of ''WebVideo/TheTimeGuys'' come out very infrequently. Going by the apparent age of the cast and by WordOfGod, filming can only take place during school breaks. This has actually worked out well; newer episodes usually come out as shorts instead of the less tolerable twenty-minte epics they were originally.

* AnotherDeadHero had himself a rough case of this with his first episode ''[[ChildrenOfTheCorn Children Of The Corn 3: Urban Harvest]]'', which due to not only computer troubles with his editing software going haywire, but also the finished episode becoming so corruptible, he couldn't save it, making it a [[LostForever lost episode]]. It took him till a couple more months before he released his first official released review, part one of ''Necronomicon: Book of the Dead''. Though, now he's kinda ran into this again, due to losing the camera he used to film the episode and the next two.

* Production on ''[[{{Moviebob}} The Game Overthinker]]'' stalled out in early 2013 due to a combination of snowstorms making it impossible to shoot the outdoor scenes that had been set up, and Bob Chipman committing himself to too many things at once (particularly an appearance at PAX East). He goes into more detail on the causes of the delay in [[http://blip.tv/gameoverthinker/i-m-sorry-but-ea-should-be-sorrier-6555721 this video.]]

* On a smaller scale, the big crossover review between WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] and [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] for ''AloneInTheDark''. To begin with, Doug Walker had lost his voice the day before Spoony and Linkara arrived in Chicago (hence the use of [[SyntheticVoiceActor text-to-speech]]). Secondly, construction work was being done outside Doug's house, so they had to film the review in Doug's basement. In addition, they didn't decide which UweBoll movie to review until the day they started writing. Spoony gives the scoop [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2009/09/10/alone-in-the-dark-noahs-commentary/ here]].

** Doug Walker and Lewis Lovhaug have both referred to their crossover review of ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'' as a cursed review. Several introductions were filmed and scrapped (in one instance, the footage filmed around the same time as the ''Alone in the Dark'' review was lost), and it kept getting pushed back after Walker did a Top 11 countdown of the stupidest moments of the ''Superman'' film series.

* The FanFilm series ''Franchise/{{Bionicle}}: The Next Generation'' currently resides deep in DevelopmentHell because of this. It started out as an ambitious 3D animation film project on the BZPower forums, shortly before the forum server crashed. The project was moved to a new site, and it was decided that instead of feature-length films, they would make a series of shorts. The modeling had to be started over because the older models suffered from problems. Then, the project leaders left one by one, along with many other disillusioned members. When the BZPower forum came back, the community branded the project a futile undertaking. Since the team struggled with the 3D CGI, they held a contest to decide if 2D would be a better tool. Only the 2D team managed to get a video short done, effectively proving that the 3D angle has been doomed from the start. The new project leaders are currently trying to sort out the whole thing and start over from scratch, but with more realistic goals.

* The Year 2 and 3 ThatGuyWithTheGlasses anniversary {{Massive Multiplayer Crossover}}s:
** ''{{Kickassia}}''. Almost everyone involved was injured somehow, the worst being cameraman Rob Walker getting a nasty leg injury on the first day, but he was still quite a {{Determinator}} as he kept cramming himself into tight places and waiting until filming was over to seek any medical attention. Also, LordKat twisted both his ankles, which forced his role to be severely reduced, and the extremely tight four day filming schedule meant that the climax had to be significantly trimmed down, with scenes like [[NoahAntwiler Spoony]] revealing himself to still be Insano never being filmed.
** ''SuburbanKnights'' was even worse, with [[ExposedToTheElements the weather causing so many problems]] that DougWalker was fully prepared to scrap the whole thing, until everyone banded together and convinced him they were willing to get the film done whatever it took.