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• 9Jun 07

  I'm back

  Did some one go when I was here
  • Posted Jun 9, 2007 11:20 pm GMT
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• 14Oct 06

  Which game was most overrated?

  I think Halo:Combat Evolved

  9.6? It looked lick your modern FPS

  • Posted Oct 14, 2006 9:47 am GMT
  • Category: Games
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• 23Sep 06

  How to make a game guide

  [In  progress. If you have any helpful tips, then please contribute.]
  
  Since a lot of people are asking how to make video guides, and we just have information scattered around the whole forums, I thought a topic about it would be helpful.
  
  What you need:
  
  Games, Console, PC: Handhelds are a bit harder, but some of the older handhelds have emulators you can use instead.
  
  S-Video Cable: You will probably be needing a converter cable. To go from Analog to S-video. These aren't very expensive, and some consoles even have S-video cables you can buy for the system.
  
  
  Video Capture Device: You have a couple options here. You can get a USB Video Capture Device, which is the easiest and potentially cheapest, a Video Capture Card, which is essentially the same, just inside your computer, or you can get a gaming bridge which allows you to play your console games onto your computer.
  
  USB devices can cost anywhere from US$40 to US$500, a capture card can cost from about US$50 to US$400, and a gaming bridge will cost around US$90. There's lots of different hardware so you can search for those on your own.
  
  (Of course if you're recording from your PC, you don't need this. You can simply use recording software to record your gameplay.)
  
  Video Editing and Compression Software: You have a lot of options here too. You'd be better off buying some good software, but I know that most of you don't want to pay. So, you can either get some of the free software out there, use the 30-day trials for others, or get it some other way.
  
  Software:
  Adobe Premiere
  Ulead VideoStudio
  Roxio VideoWave
  Apple final Cut
  
  Free software:
  Fraps [ http://www.fraps.com/ ]
  Windows Movie Maker [ www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx ]
  Zwei-Stein [ http://www.zs4.net/ ]
  Wax [ http://www.debugmode.com/wax/ ]
  VirtualDub [ http://www.virtualdub.org/ ]
  
  
  Instructions on hooking up and installing all of your hardware and software should come with everything, so I won't go over that. Nor will I go over recording it, since I believe that shouldn't be too hard.
  
  So we'll move right on to...
  
  
  Editing and compressing:
  
  After you've recorded your gameplay video, you need to work on editing it. You are mostly in charge of what you want to edit. Although, I'm sure this goes without saying, but, you want to keep the downtime in your videos to a minimum. Viewers don't want to sit through 10 minutes of you missing a hard jump, falling down a cliff, and retrying. Same goes for long periods of time that you spend sorting through your inventory or looking at a map. You also want to split it into chapters. How you want to do that is up to you.
  
  After you've edited your video and have it presentable, you need to compress it and then encode it into .WMV format.
  
  
  
  ____________________
  That's all that I can think of right now....am I missing anything?

  Please give me comments
  

  • Posted Sep 23, 2006 9:50 am GMT
  • Category: Games
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