I really like the idea of having a demo right on the homepage so people can see the general idea of what Nexuiz is about. I just feel that the demo video should show off Nexuiz better than it currently does.

Real life example: I told a friend at work about Nexuiz and how it is the primary FPS that I am playing, he said he would check it out. He went home opened Nexuiz.com and the first thing he did was watch the demo on the homepage. The next day I asked him if he played it and he said "nah I watched the video, didn't look like anything special to me". He did comment on how well the main page was designed though. The following weekend during the intermission of hockey night in Canada, I opened Nexuiz and started playing. He came over and said "That looks frickin awesome". As he watched me bunny-hop, speed cap the flag, laser off walls to gain speed...etc... he asked me if he could try it out. As the intermission ended he no longer had interest in the Hockey game. He says "I wish the demo on the Nexuiz site showed me what the game was really about"

First impressions are important. Just a suggestion to have a more appealing video on the homepage to show off the beauty and finesse of Nexuiz rather than just the purty graphics it produces. Sorry if this post shouldn't be in the Development section.

Actually it's more the question of, "who wants to make a new video?"

I couldn't agree more, I'd like a more intense video as well.

We had a few people say they were going to... but no one followed through.

This is also why I refer people to the collection of clips in kyoman.

Thats what i should have done and will start doing, thanks -Z-

Asking for contributions from players will help you achieve this goal faster, stronger and build the sense of community here in the forums. Taking charge of such a project would also be admirable and appreciated by your fellow Nexuizians.

Taking the initiative I am asking all Nexuiz players to help as a group to achieve this. I may not be known by all members of the community, I have been playing for about a year at various North American servers. You can always find me on IRC. This will benefit all of us by showing brand new players what we can do with Nexuiz.

I suggest we have clips of various "aspects" of the game. Including trick jumps, CTF Captures and anything else you think would impress any gamer.

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I still have the .dem files of all records on the race server. These may show some tricks too, maybe a short clip can be taken from some of them.

You find them on http://emptyset.endoftheinternet.org/~r ... speedruns/

Well, I'm good at hyperactive editing.
This was my first try on this kind of stuff, so I can do a lot better nowadays if it comes to promotion. Like my remixed Mega Man 2 intro.

maybe we collect demos of really great games and someone (like butt or more) edit them to a video.. or Cuizis FOTY video (?)

FOTY can't be the one. For the simple reason that this game has to be appealing to as many people as possibly. So showing only "hardcore" super cool stuff that only the experienced players can do, can throw off newbies. They might think it's too intense and that they wouldn't stand a chance and die all the time.
I didn't like that aspect of Quake 3 Arena too much before and I was a newbie and no way to beat those crazy guys who hits everything every time.

hardcore stuff done by hardcores looks easy and natural , keep in mind that only purpose of this video is to make people install the game, after that they can love it or hate it but video did its job, game is on hdd and ready to play

but that dont mean you should only show tripple mid-air mortars where you both are falling into the void some balance need to be made, and dont show too much nexgun shots, they are rather boring to watch after while, quick turn, *click* and action is over ;P, and for gods sake dont show facing worlds in this movie, its sniper map made for fun and it looks bad

I would like to see the video hit touch upon all emotions. The awesomeness of a crazy frag combo. The zomgness of just missing a flag capped or get blown to smithereens. The fun of playing with friends in a casual setting (like someone just running around in a circle like an idiot just because it's funny ). Ultimate fails, amazing victories and of course, create use of weapons and physics.

I think it's important to cover key features of the game, the newest game modes and improvements in addition to frag highlights.

Don't be scared to use text either. "Check out these latest features", "radar", "improved scoreboard", "portogun", etc.

Unfortunately I don't have any time to contribute much myself, but I have a suggestion for the new movie:

What about some kind of mixture of a documentation and advertisement, i.e. being similar to a product presentation demo. With this I mean that there is some kind of moderator who is talking in english while background music is being played and gamescenes are being shown. Of course the moderator doesn't have to talk all the time, I think you understand how I mean it.

Back then when I had the idea about such a movie, I created a tree of all kind of information that could be candidates of being included in such a movie. There could probably a short version of that movie with a length of about 2 minutes at max, and a longer version for the interested players who'd like to find out more.

Such a longer movie would not only be efficient with drawing the attention of the viewer, it could, at the same time, act as "Getting started" help explaining a few elements of the game that are not always understood right from the beginning

OK, here's my list:

• General gameplay
  
  • weapons
    
    • uniqueness of the weapons (explaining what it does)
    • alternative firemodes
    • explosions triggered by other weapons (i.e. others can detonate your rocket)
    • damage through walls/floor
  • ammo system
    
    • ammo can be picked up before having a weapon for it, still gets accounted
    • ammo stacks up until unlimited (basically, till 999 shots)
    • respawn times
    • dedicated ammo for shotgun and MG, shared ammo (cells/rockets)
    • picking up a weapon gives you as much ammo as one ammo pack
    • switching the weapon is quite fast (unlike other games where you have to wait until their reload time has passed)
  • health & armor system
    
    • unlimited pickup of health and armor possible (as opposed to other games)
    • respawn times
    • describing the armor and health items (medium, small, large)
    • describe health and armor rotting, how you can prevent by picking items every 5 seconds, etc
  • movement
    
    • general acceleration through jumping
    • the powerful air-control (i.e. showing examples)
    • ramp jumps (examples!!)
    • weapon jumps, combinaion of projectiles (e.g. mortar grenade with 2ndary firemode, plus laser as a combo, or jsut usual rocketjump)
  • the maps: maybe show the different styles, tell about the number of maps, specialties, popularities, whatever you can think of
• Game modes and modifications
  
  • describing each gamemode, show examples. of course the detail of how much is described should depend on the popularity of the game mode.
  • describe the modificator system, explain a few (instagib, rocket arena, homing missiles, ...)
• The nexuiz community
  
  • mention the helpful, friendly community (forums)
  • character of the open source game: community influences the outcome of the game (e.g. polls in the AT forum)
  • mention the vivid participation of creating content by the community (e.g. sounds, models, textures, code and of course the maps) and that the content also become part of Nexuiz when being of high quality
  • mention community pages, such as the ouns wiki, nexuizninjaz and a few others
  • IRC channels
• The communities: mention the FFA scene and the competitive scene which are the 2 major ones IMO. This should create a sense of what the user is actually doing when playing. Most of the players automatically go for FFA only without really knowing the difference or the world around it. This could change it.
  
  • FFA Gameplay (explain what is meant with it, can be briefly of course)
  • competitive gameplay: Mention ladder, tourney(s), clans, competitive features like fullbright skins, shootfrom center, ready/restart (warmup), tweakability of graphics (this could also go to another part, to show that nexuiz is quite scalable in performance/looks), auto demo and screenshots

This list only contains aspects of the game or community in no particular order, it also doesn't list things that are needed for such a movie, like a short introduction or what ever. It is mainly a list of differences to other games, and shows what is making nexuiz special and worthy to play.

divVerent wrote:I still have the .dem files of all records on the race server. These may show some tricks too, maybe a short clip can be taken from some of them.

You find them on http://emptyset.endoftheinternet.org/~r ... speedruns/

A small video to introduce the new Race mode? I could make a small video when I find time.

About Green's idea:

I always hoped someone would finally do that (but I am too lazy )) )

Well, the video should probably contain an actual race lap by a good player

How's this going?

I'd like to make the suggestion of browsing around peoples youtube channels. There is a lot of quality stuff there, and assuming people still have the .dem files lying around the particular videos could be remade in a higher quality. I'm sure no one would really mind having videos borrowed.

[-z-] wrote:How's this going?

about my race "movie" (it wouldn't be something very special, just a small vid):

It would be cool if kojn and the other fast cappers ( ) would do their records too.
And Red Dragon: Try to get this Racing_Worlds record, because jlue doesn't give me a demo