Vortex Wars

Bladesam wrote:I would LOVE to see this match! Hopefully the ability to observe a match will be out before it.

After reading n-th post like that I thought about YT. Why won't we just organize some matches, record them and put on YT? One of players could record or he could just surrender right away and record without influence on the gameplay. Or that could be some mod recording as a spectator. We could even go a bit further. Why not to get a room on some TeamSpeak server for matches and record that as well with video? Or simple late-binded or live commentary? I've done live commentary in my Let's Play videos on YT, that's not so hard! ;D

Or promote the game through a CGI video we can post on youtube?

Second the motion for a mod recording the match and posting it on YouTube! The question is how long does vyor survive?

I think about uploading something on regular basis. Once a week, month or so. Its not that much of a problem. Personally I'm fan of YT channels with commentary videos like HDstarcraft. Guy records SCII replays and speaks about the match, players and their movements.

and it might also help with fixing some bugs if you happen to get one while recording

Unless you're planning to make very fast moves against people that will also make very fast moves, you're wasting people's bandwidth by uploading a vw match, as the games tend to be very slowly, and people's attention span, these days, varies between 3 and 5 seconds.

BelgarionRiva wrote:Unless you're planning to make very fast moves against people that will also make very fast moves, you're wasting people's bandwidth by uploading a vw match, as the games tend to be very slowly, and people's attention span, these days, varies between 3 and 5 seconds.

lol true.

BelgarionRiva wrote:Unless you're planning to make very fast moves against people that will also make very fast moves, you're wasting people's bandwidth by uploading a vw match, as the games tend to be very slowly, and people's attention span, these days, varies between 3 and 5 seconds.

If there would be life conversation between players recorded (TeamSpeak? Ventrillo?) it could be fun as it is. Also life-commentary could fill the "boring" parts when players think. Speeding up a video and adding commentary later is a valid option as well. Thats why I've started this topic. To consult what would be best if such project would start.

Joriom wrote:

BelgarionRiva wrote:Unless you're planning to make very fast moves against people that will also make very fast moves, you're wasting people's bandwidth by uploading a vw match, as the games tend to be very slowly, and people's attention span, these days, varies between 3 and 5 seconds.

If there would be life conversation between players recorded (TeamSpeak? Ventrillo?) it could be fun as it is. Also life-commentary could fill the "boring" parts when players think. Speeding up a video and adding commentary later is a valid option as well. Thats why I've started this topic. To consult what would be best if such project would start.

All very interesting propositions, but they will also probably require hiring one or two people just for the YouTube thing (Live-commentary would have to be added later and can take a lot of work on a long match; speeding the videos would require watching the entire thing first, deciding which parts are boring and then edit them, etc.).

Xtermy wrote:All very interesting propositions, but they will also probably require hiring one or two people just for the YouTube thing (Live-commentary would have to be added later and can take a lot of work on a long match; speeding the videos would require watching the entire thing first, deciding which parts are boring and then edit them, etc.).

I'm not talking about daily videos. Once a week or even a month is still fair enough, trust me. We could always speed up WHOLE video and let it be normal speed or even slower in some "crucial" parts (not longer than few seconds). Late-binded commentary takes max twice as long as the video. From my experience recording 15 minutes video with LIVE commentary takes: ~20m (recording) + 5-15m (sound noise reduction, etc), + 15-60m (video processing) + 1-4h rendering (quality/CPU) + 0,5-8h sending (connection/quality). You could add 15-30m of recording commentary. Every weekend or twice a month its not much time for a voluntary Youtuber.

Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheJoriom (not the latest video, some of earlier ones)