I made a teaser video for my upcoming game Akuchizoku the day before yesterday. An interesting experience, since I didn't think my computer would be up for the task.

I figured I'd let people know how to do it. The first thing I did was scale the game down to 25% of the real screen size in GM. This apparently makes the game run slower, but I didn't notice any slow down on my computer. Probably a good idea to scale the game down to about the resolution you're aiming for to upload (if you're going for youtube hosting or something similar).

Then, I used a freeware application called Camstudio to capture the video. It's an absolutely awesome tool, for a freeware program. It allows you to record in Div-X/Xvid on the fly, if you don't want to end up with a five gigabyte videofile on the harddrive.

Then I used VirtualDub (also freeware) to resize the video, synchronize the audio to the video and compress it to a more reasonable filesize for uploading. (Virtualdub is quite lovely, have been using it for years. Get some filters and you can do nice fade-in and fade-out effects, add in watermark logos etc etc.)

Finally, I tried three different host for the video file. Youtube was fast to upload to, but it took a good six hours before the video was available for viewing. I also tried google's video section, but uploading was slow and without a proper progress bar. Finally I tried 123video.nl, which was a bit harder to navigate as it's in dutch, but it was fast to upload with and took only fifteen minutes or so before I could view the video. Also allows you to embed the video on your own site. Definitely recommended.

So, feel free to give it a view on the official site of the game. And while you're at it, why not get a pre-order?

man i am going to have to install windows for this one. looks totally killer.

pros - nice pixels
cons - it does not always respond to the spacebar

I'm loving the old-school tunes in this, definitely suit the look and style of the game. Looks like a lot of fun, cactus! I'll definitely show my support and donate my share, but unfortunately I don't have access to an online payment method right now, otherwise I would :)

Instead of VirtualDub, try VirtualDubMod.. its the same program but you're able to save the audio from the video. You can then compress this to mp3 and have an even smaller video when you load it back in.

http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/

VirtualDubMod and Nandub are both "better" than VirtualDub, but there's not much need for it unless you're going for advanced stuff. Normal VirtualDub can export audio/video separately, and mix any video and audio stream (of supported formats) together. I think the difference is that Nandub can produce matroska and ogm videos, and include subtitles that you can turn on/off. Plus some extra codecs are supported or something like that. It was a while since I looked into it though :P

I think I've said enough about how much I'm anticipating this game. That Camtasia Studio tends to halve my game's fps, same with Fraps, so maybe doing some of those tips won't require a video speed-up :P

cactus!

did you wreck into the ground?

man, you stink!

:P

Yeah, well.... :-[

I'd lie and say that it was planned, but it was actually the first time I played the game in 25% resolution (160x120), and I didn't see what I was doing all that well

I'm not that good at shmups either, but the game is a lot harder than I make it seem in that vid.

Awesomeness, Cact. I haven't been able to find any hori shooters for a looong time that I'd love. This looks like it'd definitely fill that void. =)

You're the king of shooters. Heh. Oh no, better clarify that a bit: you're the king of linear (one-directional) shooters. Pug'd be the kind of free-form shooters. Yes.