The video has taken about a week longer than planned due to quality issues (and because my “week” is only the gaps in between my day job). I currently have about 20 thousand frames (because for technical reasons I save the video as BMPs for editing) to shrink, crop, select, reconvert, fade into each other, add music, etc., etc. Realistically that could take another two or three days. I’m highly aware that this is July already, and I think a higher priority is to finish the essential dialog in the game so I can send it for testing. I don’t want to ask people to test and make suggestions but then say “by the way I want it back in two weeks.” So I’ll put the teaser video on hold for a week in order to get the test game out, then go back to finish the video this time next week.
Oh, and a bit of news: the teaser video will include one segment from Genesis of the Gods, just to whet your appetite. (The rest of the video will be from Les Miserables and the Divine Comedy, as I want it to act as an advertisement for the whole project). I haven’t seriously started working on Genesis yet of course, but I do have one animated sequence I made years ago that would fit very neatly.
More tomorrow (or the next day)!
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C. // July 4, 2009 at 6:11 pm
“Accursed Nimrod, WHOSE name is a byword for monstrous pride”, even?
(sorry, all I can see is the screencap here — I can’t wait to see the video!)
tolworthy // July 4, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Yes, I’ll need to grammar check the dialog
The video will be up in a week – maybe sooner if all goes well.