mastodon 4.7.3I make videos and other weird stuff, mostly about adventure games.
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The binge-edit of my King's Quest videos is finally on PeerTube! https://spectra.video/w/oWE44tymtdYc6irVMEGCek
YouTube is at it again.
Gotta be real, I was not expecting a Space Quest shoutout in a video about The Amazing Digital Circus, but here we are. https://youtu.be/kyQ39XVbFso?t=436 (timestamped for your convenience)
PeerTube version of the King's Quest mega-edit is coming but of course it's being a bitch about it, too. I guess we can add that onto the pile of things that have gone wrong for no discernible reasons recently.
FIXED! A 4 hour mega-cut marathon of all my King's Quest videos for your binging pleasure — now with no sync issues! Plus:
• Properly zoomed FMVs (KQ6 and KQ7)
• Audio balancing
• Pathetic e-begging from the originals removed
• Deleted scen in KQ4
Binge here: https://youtu.be/_XxJrOeOBg4
Something went very wrong with the export of that binge video. The timeline in DaVinci is synced up correctly, but the end result video isn't. So I'm re-rendering it and will upload a new version in the morning.
I mean, why should anything work properly. That'd just take the fun out of everything.
The quest to upscale graphics from the ol' AGI adventure games (Space Quest I+II, King's Quest I+II+III, etc.) continues with impressive results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Yp9S23ICo
Under A Killing Moon remake Kickstarter is live now! This is a grounds-up remake of the classic 1994 FMV game (and one of my favorites). https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/texmurphy/tex-murphy-killing-moon-rising
Perhaps you would care for a 2½ hour about the arguably least-fondly-remembered — and, sadly, final — entry in the Gabriel Knight series? Well, OneShortEye has got you covered... extensively! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgNKT5FQpWc
Thanks, YouTube, I hate it.
I hereby retract my admiration for this project after @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net discovered it was most likely vibe-coded.
I wish people would stop leaving me requests or recommendations for games to "do." I know that probably sounds ungrateful, but it's not like I'll be running out of games to cover anytime soon, and the only way for me to stay motivated is to do what I want when I want.
Sorry for the repost, but (engage whiny mode) I spent a lot of time doing interviews with these developers and putting together a Making Of documentary, so... if you have any interest in 90s FMV games and the development process, please have a look at this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjaLilGWm_k
Why are Minecraft's default keybinds so fucked up? Since when is Shift = crouch and Ctrl = run? Is this the mirror universe?
The last couple of streams I did, including tonight's stream with Earth Must Die and Foolish Mortals, are now on my 2nd channel. I will turn them into YouTube-friendly videos at some point but these are the full VODs: @sqhdump@youtube.com
Gonna play the EARTH MUST DIE demo tonight because this Steam disclaimer sounds right up my alley.
Usual places:
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/spacequesthistorian
YouTube: https://youtube.com/spacequesthistorian
Streaming a few random games this evening, including a text parser game that promises a "fuck with" command.
Usual places:
https://twitch.tv/spacequesthistorian
https://youtube.com/spacequesthistorian
Did some video editing last night after a few weeks of almost complete burnout. It felt good to finally do something again. I should do more of that. Kinda feels like we might be back on track. 🤞
Going live now with GameDev Gore: My failed attempts at making adventure games. It's gonna be an exciting cavalcade of bad graphics and questionable interfaces.
YT: https://youtube.com/spacequesthistorian
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/spacequesthistorian
Here's a fun idea for a stream: "Gamedev Gore: My failed attempts at making games." I'll take you on a tour of the many prototypes and unfinished adventure games I've made over the years. Most of them with weird UIs and bad graphics. Look for a time later today.
Yup, we're back with more Monkey-Island-meets-Broken-Sword this evening.
Usual places:
https://twitch.tv/spacequesthistorian
https://youtube.com/spacequesthistorian
Gonna stream more of Foolish Mortals this evening because I got a new mic and I'm eager to see how it performs in action. Oh, and the game is alright, too, I guess.
Usual places:
twitch.tv/spacequesthistorian
youtube.com/spacequesthistorian
The livestreams will continue until morale improves! Going live now with Innocent Until Caught, a game that seems to very much wish it was Space Quest but quite clearly isn't.
Twitch: twitch.tv/spacequesthistorian
YouTube: youtube.com/spacequesthistorian
A bit of casual streaming this evening. A short indie horror game with a unique visual style called The Music Machine.
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/spacequesthistorian
YouTube: https://youtube.com/spacequesthistorian
Why is Microsoft so spectacularly terrible at everything they do? My son and I can't go a week without one of our Microsoft account logins shitting the bed, and they blasted this shit INTO SPACE?! https://www.techradar.com/computing/software/i-have-two-microsoft-outlooks-and-neither-one-is-working-artemis-ii-astronauts-have-the-most-relatable-complaint
Doing a mid-day test stream of a jank-ass game I found in my Steam library. This is just a test of some mild equipment change so don't expect anything mindblowing.
Twitch: twitch.tv/spacequesthistorian
YT: youtube.com/spacequesthistorian
TIL the iconic Tom screams from Tom & Jerry were done by William Hanna himself. As in, the one half of Hanna Barbera. https://youtu.be/Yqbl2QIYDPg
Gonna monkey around a bit with Innocent Until Caught this evening. I'll try out the Amiga version and see if I can record & import the music from the PC version for... purposes. 😏 Join me and be frightfully bored.
Twitch: twitch.tv/spacequesthistorian
YouTube: youtube.com/spacequesthistorian
No stream today or tomorrow, I'm afraid. But I should be back on my bullshit with Innocent Until Caught's bullshit on Friday, if all goes well. I still refuse to keep a "stream schedule" 'cos I know it'll end up stressing me out. But... 👇
A warning to anyone who still wants to play/stream Maize: The stock music they used for the dance scene will get you copyright flagged. I guess that whole 3 hour playthrough video I did, of which their music is played for less than 2 minutes, was all for them.
Fix your shit, YouTube.
Seeing as today is the most obnoxious day of the year, I will be staying off the internet until the smoke of try-hard bullshit clears. Enjoy your day.
I am nothing if not inconsistent. Fuck it. Let's finish this garbage.
Twitch: twitch.tv/spacequesthistorian
YouTube: youtube.com/spacequesthistorian
I saw someone recently moaning about why these lads with the long noses, Angine de Poitrine, have been blowing up so massively lately because "they're not doing anything new." This Short pretty well sums it up, I think. https://youtube.com/shorts/xJpWBSBs9AY
Edited highlights of my Maize playthrough pt. 3 is up now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJwyj9zYB9M
I finished the game this evening, so if you want the whole game spoiled for you and don't mind sitting through an entire stream VOD, it'll be up on my 2nd channel (youtube.com/@sqhdump) in a few minutes.
Gonna play a bit of a game that was sent to me back in Dec. last year: The End of the Sun. Apparently we get to set fire to shit.
Usual places:
https://twitch.tv/spacequesthistorian
https://youtube.com/spacequesthistorian
The good news is we got digital sound effects working in Innocent Until Caught! The bad news is... well... you'll never guess.
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/spacequesthistorian
YouTube: https://youtube.com/spacequesthistorian