Bullet gifs!

[Professor Paul1290]

I think I might have kind of accidentally stumbled across something, I thought I'd share.

Ok, so someone saw me playing Starward Rogue on Steam and asked what the difference was between that and Binding of Isaac.
Obviously, that question is not easy to explain very quickly right away so I got an idea.
I quickly got one of my recorded Hard mode attempts, shoved it into Imgur, and got some gifv files out of it.

http://i.imgur.com/kuqVHQA.gifv

http://i.imgur.com/JjFGt6k.gifv

Accidental instant sale, didn't quite expect that.
So on a hunch I linked them in an IRC I frequent and a Discord chat, more positive reception and I didn't have to even explain all that much.

So yeah, I know this really anecdotal, but maybe this is something worth trying more of?
I mean, what separates Starward Rogue from most other "bullet-hell dungeon thingys" is that it actually has some degree of pattern design, not just the "spew a bunch of slow moving projectiles and call it bullet hell".
In that sense, this sums up the "why Starward Rogue" question in a very quick and easy to present way.

So perhaps make more of these? What do you guys think?

[nas1m]

Nice ! I think you might really have something here.
Definitely the most suitable material i have seen yet to describe SR in a nutshell!

[tombik]

Definitely a good idea. I am not sure whether gifs can be uploaded to the storepage, but if they can, this must definitely be there.

[Misery]

This... this is awesome.

I think you have indeed found a good way of pointing out some differences there, yes indeed.

[Pepisolo]

Yeah, great idea. Starward Rogue really has legit shmup/bullet hell sensibilities that can be hard to explain. These gifs pretty much sum it up.

[Darloth]

Well you can certainly put multiple videos up on the store page if you're the developer, so maybe just some smaller showcases of the boss fight bullet patterns, as well as some of the larger enemies like the Demesne?

[PokerChen]

This is pretty good.

[Professor Paul1290]

I guess in that case this could become a thing.

I'm pretty sure some of us already have some good recorded footage to extract short gif clips from, we could probably start posting that as a source of promo material.

Imgur's Video to GIF tool is pretty quick and easy for this:
http://imgur.com/vidgif

There are other applications out there of course.

[Logorouge]

That looks very cool. It makes me want to buy the game...and I already own it!

[Cinth]

While this is all kinds of awesome, I am going to stick to just streaming and posting to YouTube.  Feel free to you my vids though.

[Professor Paul1290]

A couple extracts from Misery's videos.

From Wallmaster Normal:
http://i.imgur.com/6OAdKjo.gifv

And from Crystal Mother, Misery:
http://i.imgur.com/XnI1hM9.gifv


Also, note that Imgur generates regular .gif versions along with the .gifv, just take the "v" off the end to see them.
They're not performance friendly at all, but they're there.

[mrhanman]

From Wallmaster Normal:
http://i.imgur.com/6OAdKjo.gifv

This one is mesmerizing.

[Draco18s]

Also, note that Imgur generates regular .gif versions along with the .gifv, just take the "v" off the end to see them.

You should only need to do this on mobile.