Game Making Video Contest
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Game Making Video Contest
I know most of us are all contested out, and I know the RGC contest is coming sooner or later, but I also know that contests have a way of motivating many of us.
I propose a Game Making Video contest. The idea is that you continue working on whatever game you were already planning on working on, but you use screen recording software to record a few short segments of yourself working on your game (possibly with commentary) and then upload them to Youtube. Many of us have done this before, so this shouldn't be anything too difficult or new, just this would emphasize recordings of game creation, not game playing.
For example, I plan to record myself fixing some Wandering Hamster bugs, and adding some new content.
I don't know how a voting/winning structure should work for a contest like this, or even if it is strictly necessary.
Does anybody like this plan? Any input or suggestions?
I propose a Game Making Video contest. The idea is that you continue working on whatever game you were already planning on working on, but you use screen recording software to record a few short segments of yourself working on your game (possibly with commentary) and then upload them to Youtube. Many of us have done this before, so this shouldn't be anything too difficult or new, just this would emphasize recordings of game creation, not game playing.
For example, I plan to record myself fixing some Wandering Hamster bugs, and adding some new content.
I don't know how a voting/winning structure should work for a contest like this, or even if it is strictly necessary.
Does anybody like this plan? Any input or suggestions?
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- Red Slime
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Come to think of it, the video content could be just about anything, so long as it contributes to the game design process.
I could record myself doing all kinda stuff:
This is probably the most productive thing I will do this July. I'll try to get started when I'm back from vacation next week.
I could record myself doing all kinda stuff:
- -Scribbling ideas and designs on [s]paper[/s] I have a tablet so I guess I could do this in Photoshop instead
-Drawing, editing, and importing sprites into CUSTOM
-Tweaking maps through the map editor
-Fiddling with SFXR to come up with sound effects
-Composing game music in Anvil Studio
-Ironing out pre-existing bugs in my games
-Drafting new plotscripts
-Writing out plot and dialogue while talking about it
This is probably the most productive thing I will do this July. I'll try to get started when I'm back from vacation next week.
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Oh wow, you watch it. Yea, I try to keep things in a way that I'm not spending a large amount of time hunting things down. I also try to keep 2 copied of each of my tiles. ( just in case. ) These 2 things do however end up taking a lot of my tilemap space up though.NayusDante wrote:Wow, your tilesets are organized. Mine are not.
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Well, I've got my stream up right now if you want to see how Ustream works.
Not gonna use a mic tonight, just gonna see if I can hammer out some maps and stuff.
I'll record it and it'll still be available to watch later, if anyone feels like checking it out.
Not gonna use a mic tonight, just gonna see if I can hammer out some maps and stuff.
I'll record it and it'll still be available to watch later, if anyone feels like checking it out.
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If anybody else is using Linux, I have had pretty good luck with gtk-recordMyDesktop
...although it outputs ogg theory movies, and last time I checked, youtube's support for ogg theora was broken. That was months ago, maybe they fixed it by now.
I worked around the youtube problem by transcoding to mpeg4 using mencoder from the mplayer package (which is actually a little bit of a pain, so if anybody has any better Linux suggestions, my ears are open)
...although it outputs ogg theory movies, and last time I checked, youtube's support for ogg theora was broken. That was months ago, maybe they fixed it by now.
I worked around the youtube problem by transcoding to mpeg4 using mencoder from the mplayer package (which is actually a little bit of a pain, so if anybody has any better Linux suggestions, my ears are open)