We're on YouTube and TikTok: how we make our shorts

Ludven now posts short videos, as @ludvenhq on YouTube and TikTok. The first one is up: why a Satisfactory factory runs slow, in 29 seconds.

The same short on TikTok: @ludvenhq on TikTok.

How a short is made

• The pictures come from the app itself. A script opens Factory Board on its demo base and draws the video frame by frame, with no screen recorder. Every number on screen is one the app shows for its demo base, never a player's real save.
• It opens on real gameplay. The first seconds are Satisfactory footage we recorded ourselves; then the app answers the question.
• The sound effects are made by code. Each cut, ring and label gets its own sound, placed on the video's own events, so there is no sample library to license.
• The voice and the music are AI. Both come from ElevenLabs. The voice is a stock voice for now.
• A check runs before anything goes out. A script measures the size, the length, the loudness and the caption, and confirms the voice and music were made on a paid plan, which allows commercial use. A clip that fails is not packed for posting.

What it costs

ElevenLabs Starter is $6 a month. One 30-second short used 511 of its 30,000 monthly credits. The music has its own limit, 17 minutes a month, so the plan covers about 30 shorts. Everything else runs on our own machines.

What we will share

After about 12 shorts we will post their numbers here: views, how many people watched to the end, and how many came on to the site. The zeros too, as on the numbers page.

Follow @ludvenhq on YouTube and TikTok to see the next ones as they come out.