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Offline Professor Paul1290

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Bullet gifs!
« on: January 30, 2016, 03:33:52 pm »
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?
« Last Edit: January 30, 2016, 09:30:41 pm by Professor Paul1290 »

Offline nas1m

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Re: Bullet gifs!
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2016, 03:40:25 pm »
Nice :D! I think you might really have something here.
Definitely the most suitable material i have seen yet to describe SR in a nutshell!
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Offline tombik

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Re: Bullet gifs!
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2016, 03:51:05 pm »
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.

Offline Misery

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Re: Bullet gifs!
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2016, 04:49:46 pm »
This... this is awesome.

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

Offline Pepisolo

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Re: Bullet gifs!
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2016, 04:57:51 pm »
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.

Offline Darloth

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Re: Bullet gifs!
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2016, 05:42:45 pm »
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?

Offline PokerChen

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Re: Bullet gifs!
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2016, 07:45:18 pm »
This is pretty good.

Offline Professor Paul1290

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Re: Bullet gifs!
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2016, 09:37:54 pm »
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.


Offline Logorouge

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Re: Bullet gifs!
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2016, 11:50:27 pm »
That looks very cool. It makes me want to buy the game...and I already own it! :P

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Re: Bullet gifs!
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2016, 11:54:37 pm »
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.
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Re: Bullet gifs!
« Reply #10 on: February 09, 2016, 12:04:37 am »
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.
« Last Edit: February 09, 2016, 12:06:53 am by Professor Paul1290 »

Offline mrhanman

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« Reply #11 on: February 09, 2016, 12:35:05 am »

Offline Draco18s

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Re: Bullet gifs!
« Reply #12 on: February 09, 2016, 02:33:43 pm »
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.

 

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