I've been working nonstop on this lately. Hardly had time for myself anymore, but with Mega back in shape, I have little choice.This marks the end of the game's first of five stages. Quick cutscene with a demo of the particle artist's starter combat. Some of the visuals came out way differently on the computer I recorded on (not the same one I made it on), and spells are a little lacking in audio and visuals.But working with Rai's animations was more fun than I've ever remembered animating. Even though she looks like she's getting herself off. =|The video came out in poor quality, but it recorded and that's all that matters to me. And uploading to Youtube made it worse. =<And now I'll see you all in another week.EDIT: Reuploaded as AVI, looks much better.EDIT2: And since someone asked, everything in this video is mine. That includes the music (which, admittedly, I was trying to prolong by dragging out the fight).
This looks pretty professional :)
Cool! I think the not just the music, but the sounds in general are very professional and at the atmosphere. Keep up the good work!
Oh and what did you first upload it as? I used to have to put my AVI files on Windows Movie Maker to get the sound put on, and that always destroyed the quality.Thanks guys.
The original file was AVI, but I wanted to cut out that first part (there was a crude MP3 player for those who came late), and I decide to do what I always do and edit in Windows Movie Maker. However, it was acting like AVIs were audio only and thus wasn't showing the video, and when I used an MOV file, it wouldn't let me trim it. And though WMV would, it was just god-awful quality. So my original upload was the untrimmed MOV, and YouTube killed the quality through compression.Reuploading as AVI solved all of that, and today I found out YouTube supports trimming, which was just what I wanted.Sidenote: I think Movie Maker saves as WMV, which is lossy yet bloated. That would explain your quality loss.Yep, Movie Maker files are quite low quality. Unfortunately, AVI files have a very huge file format though.
Dunno, I was getting filesizes of ~30MB on this in AVI (the four or so times I recorded it), and WMV and MOV were both in the hundreds.
It struck me as weird too. Maybe it was just the conversion process. I never actually recorded in WMV or MOV, just converted from AVI.To everyone else, sorry about the file extension talk. Looking back at my comments makes me hate myself.Transcoding definitely degrades video quality. Also, AVI is just a container, so it's possible the original recording used some video codec WMM doesn't support (which is most of them).
I'm loving this so far, I can't wait to play it!
The video was great and I really like how you've made the cutscenes feel alive.Really nice job on the sprite work too, especially with the animation.This looks cool. Like when I play it I might actually say "Cool beans" as I play.
How's the writing coming along?Only 43 days until I can play all these works of art.
Writing's going all right, Juurian, leaning more toward the unproductive side. Trying to stay focused on several things at once isn't so easy, but I'll pick it up again after the comp is over.
The tile art has been touched up too, thanks to Purianite.