BitfighterVideo on YouTube

[karamazovapy]

I've created a channel on YouTube for the video capture I'll be doing from now on. I've got the first hour of the BBB uploaded. I used a junky codec for this first section, so the video quality is lower than it will be for the next five hours. (Still looks decent if you max out the resolution to 480p in youtube.) What I've done (and will do for the rest), is break the footage up by game. There's also a fun little lobby clip in there. Go wild!

http://www.youtube.com/user/BitfighterVideo

If it wouldn't be too much trouble, please list the players in each game.

[karamazovapy]

The scoreboard appears in every video, so players get credit there. Otherwise, that's a lot of extra work to do to get these online. If anyone would like a pretty 800x600 copy of a particular game, I'll upload to a filesharing site. Second hour of BBB play is nearly up.

[watusimoto]

If anyone wants to nominate a favorite for inclusion on the home page, please do so here. I picked one I liked, but will change it if there is a better one.

[watusimoto]

Ah, never mind. I figured out how to feature random videos. _k, if you upload more, please send me the urls, and I'll add them to the front page.

[karamazovapy]

Since there's already a decent selection available, I'll wait until I have the remainder uploaded and send you a final list.

[watusimoto]

Perfect! I really like having the videos on the home page. I think it will help get new players interested!

[watusimoto]

Only 27 more posts to go to overtake you...

Awesome! If we want to steal your footage to use in our media, may we?

[karamazovapy]

Of course. Like I said, if you want any specific games in the original format, just let me know.

Awesome! If we want to steal your footage to use in our media, may we?

Well, since we all helped make it, the footage is at least 1/21 ours.

[karamazovapy]

Hours 1-4 are now up. I cut the Tangle Box video because I was doing a bunch of other stuff during that game. It's lame watching one stationary ship for extended periods of time, and occasionally the edges of other windows popped up in the capture area. I also cut some little bits out of an otherwise worthwhile Curly-Q video because of unrelated windows. That's what I get for multitasking!

[karamazovapy]

ALL SIX HOURS ARE UP!

[karamazovapy]

Figured out how to do audio - check it out -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijsI8564Pak

[watusimoto]

Personally, I think music would be better, but that would be a lot of music to pick out...

[karamazovapy]

I can add music pretty easily. The upshot is that as long as there isn't any music, nobody hates it.

[karamazovapy]

New cool kid video with game sounds and chiptune soundtrack -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAO1UKpCOVM

epic 1v2 on bobdaduck's CTF, blocks, featuring _k, sam686, ws, and special guest, cracatoa.

[watusimoto]

I kind of like that music... gives you a sense of what the game would be like with music.

[sam686]

New cool kid video with game sounds and chiptune soundtrack -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAO1UKpCOVM

epic 1v2 on bobdaduck's CTF, blocks, featuring _k, sam686, ws, and special guest, cracatoa.

I recorded a video at the same time, showing the same thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZYF11BlWHI

epic 1v2 on bobdaduck's CTF, blocks, featuring _k, sam686, ws, and special guest, cracatoa.

Special guest? I was there for what, 30 seconds?

Oh, and I LOVE the music!

[karamazovapy]

Thanks to sam686 and dumb luck, we had two different people on two different teams accidentally capture video of the same game! As a result, I've made the coolest bitfighter video ever. Both videos, synced, side by side. Funny how the lag changes perception from time to time... Watch it in 720p!

youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wQ9U3IUyxk

download:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2XCE61I4

CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.

[karamazovapy]

A 72 year old with a youtube channel devoted to adult dance classes friended bitfightervideo.

Awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Belvederean

A 72 year old with a youtube channel devoted to adult dance classes friended bitfightervideo.

Awesome.

That's not random at all...

[karamazovapy]

And another milestone for BitfighterVideo on YouTube...

In less than three weeks, we've had over 500 video views! Huzzah!

[karamazovapy]

BitfighterVideo has been up for three weeks now. We've had over 550 video views. The forums have also picked up 6 new members since the launch. I'd be curious to see if there's been any noticeable traffic to bitfighter.org from youtube. A significant number of our plays have come from the embedded player on the main page.

[watusimoto]

I'll take a look at that when I get a chance. In the meantime, I've noted a lot more game activity since the big battle contest. Whether that is youtube or something else I don't know.

All videos include a bunch of great statistics on their YouTube page. Click on the little arrow next to the view count. For example, Blocks SidebySide shows that 27 views came from bitfighter.org. It may not be exactly what you're looking for, and you can only do it by one video at a time, but it's still pretty cool.

[karamazovapy]

I know all about youtube's Insight function, what I'd be curious to see is if there's traffic going in the other direction.

[karamazovapy]

In the past week alone, BitfighterVideo has gotten over 200 video views.

[karamazovapy]

BitfighterVideo has well over 1,000 video views and two new vids from BBB2!

With snazzy chiptune soundtracks:
Hedge Maze
Underground

Hedge Maze has some wicked Hounds team flag passing.

[karamazovapy]

Hedge Maze SidebySide posted - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljBJh2jPR4E

Available in HD!

[sam686]

Hedge Maze SidebySide posted - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljBJh2jPR4E

I do like that music.

Underground Side-by-side http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hKArrTLxM4
This is my first time making it side-by-side.

[karamazovapy]

Nice effort. Now that I've made two, I have to debate...which is best...sync the clocks, sync the announcements, or sync the sound effects? The world may never know...

[karamazovapy]

FINALLY got around to assembling some 3B3 video - here's a pretty awesome rabbit vid in glorious 720p:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Mq61YF4vM

here's the close game of triple threat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb9DX3JO_jU

triple threat sidebyside:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNsVPA0429U

all with soundtracks!

[karamazovapy]

Fun fact - over 3,500 video views on just 53 videos!

Also, added playlists for sidebyside videos and soundtrack videos.

[karamazovapy]

New video from 3B5:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfS81ysumS0

Available in HD with a Kills/Deaths/Ratio Counter and a soundtrack that rocks harder than your grandma. Check it.

[karamazovapy]

New Video from 3B6! Might be time to rethink your Nexus strategy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YIR6QW5LKs

Also from 3B6 - capturing the flag in the fraction of a second between the laying and arming of a mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6CGIVONxfo&

Both videos in lovely 720p, as always.

[karamazovapy]

I'm happy to release the "Official" BitfighterVideo Season 1 Soundtrack. Included are the 16 audio files used as backing tracks to the first year of BitfighterVideo's gameplay clips. Note that all files are used under a Creative Commons License, and that the format is .ogg - compatible with Bitfighter 016's built-in audio support! If you have trouble playing .ogg files normally, I suggest downloading VLC Player.

https://rapidshare.com/files/555964921/ ... dtrack.zip

(I also suggest headphones, for maximum awesome!)

[ZoombeR]

wait, are these by you?

[karamazovapy]

The songs? No no no. They're all from 8bitcollective. However, they're all available under Creative Commons License for use and distribution, so long as you don't charge any money and give credit where credit is due.

[bobdaduck]

On track 3, currently.

Man, I'm as much for retro as the next guy... but did you have to go clear back to atari-pacman days?

However, these are rather good. They fit with the game fairly close. They all have the right feel, even if I don't think the beeps sound quite right with the game. You could have done much worse. Good job.

[karamazovapy]

It's been ONE YEAR since BitfighterVideo went up on youtube.

Stats!

Videos:
56

Channel Views:
1,815

Total Upload Views:
6,397

Subscribers:
13

Friends:
7

[ZoombeR]

56 videos? Are they all from the BBB, just seperated into hours?

[sam686]

Total Upload Views:
6,397

If there is very many views, then why don't I hardly see any new players in Bitfighter? I don't think existing players will watch the same 56 videos over and over again.

[ZoombeR]

Total Upload Views:
6,397

If there is very many views, then why don't I hardly see any new players in Bitfighter? I don't think existing players will watch the same 56 videos over and over again.

thats about 114 views on each video. Remember, we have a big community, even if they aren't very very active. Way over 100 for sure. This seems likely, when you put it in smaller numbers.

[Little_Apple]

If Bitfighter was more like this, it would have more views.

[ZoombeR]

however much cute kittens are, i dont know how they will make people want to play bitfighter, rather than just watch cat videos.

[karamazovapy]

56 videos? Are they all from the BBB, just seperated into hours?

I uploaded every game from the first BBB individually because there weren't really any bitfighter videos on youtube at the time. Once those were up and sam started uploading all his stuff, I took a different approach with the channel.

Most games aren't worth watching. Instead of uploading everything, so that the one or two really fun-to-watch matches would get buried under hours of dull video, I decided to upload only those one or two videos. I also started to add soundtracks and side by side gameplay videos where the second perspective added something significant to the experience. My goal with the channel is to present a variety of really great games that are exciting to watch and show off the best of what bitfighter has to offer.

Traffic has come from bitfighter.org and these forums, but some of the videos have been linked or reposted in forums around the internet. Youtube has an Insight function that let's you see where the views originated. There has also been a fair amount of traffic derived from searches for the chiptunes or musicians I've used for audio.

As an interesting side note, the google code page indicates that version 015a has received over 3,000 downloads. Where are all those players? I don't know, but I'm positive we forum users didn't rack that number up on our own.

[Little_Apple]

however much cute kittens are, i dont know how they will make people want to play bitfighter, rather than just watch cat videos.

Did I say it would attract players?

[ZoombeR]

As an interesting side note, the google code page indicates that version 015a has received over 3,000 downloads. Where are all those players? I don't know, but I'm positive we forum users didn't rack that number up on our own.

I think this may be the result of users, including myself, downloading that copy more than once.