RFC: project: The Dom3 TV saga

[Horst F. JENS]

RFC The Dominoins 3 TV saga

Based on Tifone's inspiring youtube thread, i toy around with an idea:

Having a big dom3 game where every player record and comment his turn, his evil plans and his emotions while watching battle reports with an webcam. Webcam and dom3 battles/strategy map shall be recorded with screencast software (like recordmydesktop).

The videos of each player are sent to a "TV Master" host who can add extra comment (like a sport moderator in TV), edit and release a summary video clip of the turn. This summary video clip will be broadcasted to a large audience, possibly with links to the individual videos of the players.

My prototype example can be found here on youtube, clearly demonstrating that youtube is not a suited platform for this task due to the video encoding/resolution, at least for the battle replays. Youtube would still be an ideal platform for the webcam clips.


Goals:
+ having fun
+ show off
+ earn fame
+ increase number of dom3 players worldwide
+ see your enemy's face while he loose his army to your SC
+ free marketing for illwinter/shrapnel (those guys deserve it)
+ free marketing for your own actor skills/ in-film advertising
(example:i run a teaching game-programming business)
+ for non-English players: enjoy promising death and destruction in a
heathen lingo that your enemy will learn the hard way
+ for English players playing versus non-English: Enjoy hearing
"You killed my God!" in as many languages as possible
+ act out the little surpressed wannabe god in your soul in front of an worldwide, applauding audience while keeping your own social life innocent and intact.
+ see the effect that bribing and backstabbing has on the face of other players.


Questions:

*any video-sharing platform with good codec/quality and minimum of ads ?

*any clue of how to mix webcam with dom3 on windows (i recorded on Linux)?

*any clever idea how to maintain competive multiplayer gaming, producing videos and not giving away too much information to other players ?
--Maybe making 2 different kind of videos, one for other players (showing only webcam, but no dom3 info; and another video with full dom3
--Maybe releasing videos only after the game is over ?
--Maybe letting each player decide how much of his map he shows during screencast ?

*anyone interested ?

-Horst

[lch]

Originally Posted by Horst F. JENS

*any video-sharing platform with good codec/quality and minimum of ads ?

Try http://www.viddler.com

Originally Posted by Horst F. JENS

*any clue of how to mix webcam with dom3 on windows (i recorded on Linux)?

VirtualDub, or Windows Media Studio or what the name was for WMV

[llamabeast]

I enjoyed your trial video Horst.

Edit: I should mention that these days I'm in permanent panic mode because I'm writing up my PhD, so it doesn't cross my mind to actually join in with any constructive projects! But this was fun to watch.

[MaxWilson]

I can't help thinking that a *small* Dom3 game would probably be more fun to watch than a big Dom3 game. Say 3-4 people at most. Otherwise there are too many "characters" to keep track of.

Starting "in medias res" worked out well in your other video, you might consider doing something similar with this one. (Or maybe just follow the lead of the "Artifacts" Dom3 game going on in the MP forum right now, and start out every nation with some thematic artifacts.)

I'm not a candidate for the video, though. (I don't play MP.) Good luck.

-Max

[Horst F. JENS]

Thank you for the answers and the links, guys.
viddler looks fine, will explore it more.

Maybe I will start with an test project including a very young player and me allied against a few AI's on a small map. That means we will speak German and i will have to make English subtitles.

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by Horst F. JENS

Thank you for the answers and the links, guys.
viddler looks fine, will explore it more.

Maybe I will start with an test project including a very young player and me allied against a few AI's on a small map. That means we will speak German and i will have to make English subtitles.

I would watch that.

-Max

[theenemy]

Nice vid! Read my comment on utube.

P.S. U spelled dominions wrong

[Horst F. JENS]

Thank you. I corrected the spelling.

[Gandalf Parker]

Apparently I can host video with no problem. Just linking to the file allows your computer to manage it at your end for viewing.

Using a video sharing site however will protect the file from being downloaded (stolen, at least by most people), and allow the file to be viewed in flash altho lately I know more people who turn off flash than I know people who have no viewing software on their machine.

[Dectilon]

Recording your face isn't really necessary :P

It's a good idea though. I'd love to see a sort of VLP of Dom3