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?