I came up with the dumbest idea ever

[rubikscube]

Instead of just playing for fun, we should make a awesome video that teaches newbies about it including a new advertisement, a tutorial thats not from last year, more than 2 results when searching from youtube, more than 10,000 views. i bet this will result in a awesome advertisement campaign if we can get this at a gaming website.

First, we need frags, you heard me, some footages of super ownage IN THE VERSION 3.060 with expansion, then we organize it then PROFIT

[RCIX]

So you're saying a Community Advertising Campaign? Interesting. I could provide some footage though i don't have a YouTube account or anything interesting like that...

[ShadowOTE]

I like the idea. Maybe some shots from co-op games? And with the devourer golem. OM NOM NOM!!!

[SmileyFace]

It's not a dumb idea, but it's a difficult one.

The strength of AI War is its tactical & strategic depth, which is tough to show in a video. Even the official trailer is very text heavy as it shows off the brilliant tactical AI. I believe this is because a bunch of icons/tiny ships moving around, with no commentary, is unlikely to teach people anything about AI War.

To be honest, there are already top-notch videos on youtube, including the trailers and Chris' 1-minute pitch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQzkoh56diA. After that, a viewer might want to try the demo, in which the tutorials do a good job of communicating how the game plays. It might be more productive to link to these existing movies in various forums and write more reviews, in more places. Wider exposure is a good thing.

[x4000]

I am all for fan-made videos -- and really appreciative of the sentiment here, too.  I think that having some different perspectives on presenting the game could be really valuable for bringing in new players, for sure.  It's not something I would ask for, but if people want to do this (since you brought it up) we're of course extremely grateful that you'd even think of it.

: ) does have a good point about about how difficult it is to show the game in a really tactical light, though.  This is something I've been thinking about myself for a long time, obviously, and you can see a definite progression in my own videos as I think I've gotten better at it.  But it's definitely not really fully "there" yet.  I do plan to do more videos, probably when we release a Mac/Unity version of the game in the July/August timeframe (current plan), and then of course a trailer video specific to the next expansion early next year, too.  Whether I do some more training videos or not, we'll see -- it all depends on my time availability, really, as to what I will be able to do myself.  The game is constantly changing, and so that adds some extra complexities in there, but I think the current training videos are still quite applicable as far as what they present information-wise.

But yeah, having something more brief and more exciting that really conveys the idea of AI War and gets people excited about the game -- a really awesome trailer, in other words -- is something that has eluded me...

[RCIX]

I feel that something that should be focused on in the video is the give and take between the player and AI: perhaps a shot of some ships raiding a planet, then a warp coming in and being defeated, then claiming and constructing stuff on that planet (at high speed), then a CPA coming along and wiping out the planet, etc. etc.

[rubikscube]

I feel that something that should be focused on in the video is the give and take between the player and AI: perhaps a shot of some ships raiding a planet, then a warp coming in and being defeated, then claiming and constructing stuff on that planet (at high speed), then a CPA coming along and wiping out the planet, etc. etc.

I always loved 300 frigates longrange super fast speed ownage

[rubikscube]

as for the old ones, i believe 2.0 versions including 5 months ago versions are not good enough to show the new graphical and the new expansion.

if we post on youtube, we should have many different videos and tutorials including raiding, advance tactics and the final home planet raiding, as for the tutorial, i don;'t know when it was made but it can use some expansion, imagine it introduces every ship, player suggestions and many other

[RCIX]

*lightbulb*
One of the things we need are videos briefly depicting the optimum use of some of the more exotic ships (like paralyzers, bombards, and autocannons).