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Re: Let's help the guys out! Video Texamonials HERE!!!

Posted: April 08, 2012 • 10:31 pm
by Frank
Good show David :)

You know what would be great? Instead of a mere montage, if they turned portions of the vids into Vidphone conversations.

Hell, we ought to stage and script some parts of them so it fits into the montage, with Chris ''interracting'' with some of the convos. Newcommers won't get it, but I'm sure anyone who's played the game would get a good laugh out of it. There's enough time to pull it off if we get it organised.

Re: Let's help the guys out! Video Texamonials HERE!!!

Posted: April 08, 2012 • 10:42 pm
by Sai
Frank wrote:You know what would be great? Instead of a mere montage, if they turned portions of the vids into Vidphone conversations.
A vidphone interface is a great idea :lol: It could have the names of the people on the top right in green as if Tex is selecting to call each of them. And maybe the dialogue options that appear bottom right in red could be the questions that people have answered e.g. "What appealed most to you about Tex Murphy?" etc. I stumbled across this thread where Electron Stu made a vidphone interface:
http://www.unofficialtexmurphy.com/mess ... f=1&t=1197

Re: Let's help the guys out! Video Texamonials HERE!!!

Posted: April 08, 2012 • 10:45 pm
by Fred Buer
This is a great idea. Well done, Frank!

-Fred

Re: Let's help the guys out! Video Texamonials HERE!!!

Posted: April 08, 2012 • 10:46 pm
by Frank
Badass, Sai! Exactly what I had in mind!

You know it would be great. Someone, get a hold of the man upstairs!

Re: Let's help the guys out! Video Texamonials HERE!!!

Posted: April 08, 2012 • 10:50 pm
by Sai
Even if it wasn't scripted etc. (assuming it'd be tricky to organise) I think it could work very nicely as just an interface. If I remember right, during usual gameplay in Tex Murphy I think you mainly just selected questions on the bottom right and then they'd automatically answer rather than Tex directly interacting back via vidphone himself though during some scenes that did happen. Either way, it'd be very cool to see something in that vein as it'd make it unique to the Tex Murphy series.

Re: Let's help the guys out! Video Texamonials HERE!!!

Posted: April 08, 2012 • 10:52 pm
by Frank
Yah, I just got overly excited for a second, and figured it might be worth it to re-record some portions, with a vidphone convo in mind. Either way works with me!

Re: Let's help the guys out! Video Texamonials HERE!!!

Posted: April 08, 2012 • 10:54 pm
by Sai
Heh yeah it'd be cool either way, great idea. Be sure to send it in via their contact page, they have a category for Kickstarter suggestions and they responded to me when I hadn't expected a reply so hopefully they'll get back to you.
http://bigfinishgames.com/contact

Re: Let's help the guys out! Video Texamonials HERE!!!

Posted: April 09, 2012 • 6:27 am
by booty1983
I could test this out with my video editing, and take some clips from the vid phones, insert another shot from my video camera, and use a still of the actual vid phone from the gameplay and see how it works.

Re: Let's help the guys out! Video Texamonials HERE!!!

Posted: April 09, 2012 • 10:15 am
by Sowden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqUDE34CC90

I did one like that years ago, but Electron Stu made a better one. I'll be shooting mine this week :mrgreen:

Re: Let's help the guys out! Video Texamonials HERE!!!

Posted: April 09, 2012 • 1:40 pm
by Demonlawyer
:oops: Thanks guys :)

I love the vid phone idea too - sounds fun.

Re: Let's help the guys out! Video Texamonials HERE!!!

Posted: April 09, 2012 • 4:06 pm
by Frank
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmAF8pEG ... e=youtu.be

Whoopsie! Maybe not the testimonial Tex would want to hear!

Now if only I knew how to put that in a vidscreen capture :P

Re: Let's help the guys out! Video Texamonials HERE!!!

Posted: April 09, 2012 • 4:10 pm
by Texstarter
He doesn't owe us money, we owe him TONS of money, and he owes us a game. :-)

Re: Let's help the guys out! Video Texamonials HERE!!!

Posted: April 09, 2012 • 4:55 pm
by AC
AWESOME idea.

I've seen a few of the video tex-timonials and they're great, but what we really need is SOUND BITES - short, zingy comments that we can easily edit for the KS video.

In keeping with the vid-phone idea, how about responding to questions like these (feel free to add more) as if they're "Ask Abouts":

Why Tex Murphy should come back?
Describe Tex Murphy games in 20 words or less?
Your favorite thing about Tex Murphy games?
Your favorite line, joke or scene?
Your favorite gameplay sequence?
Who would enjoy playing Tex Murphy games?

Let's get a bunch of these sent in to Big Finish - we'll be working on the video this weekend!

Thanks for all your support!

Re: Let's help the guys out! Video Texamonials HERE!!!

Posted: April 09, 2012 • 5:29 pm
by plumgas
ha , my favourite line is in overseer " tex talking to delores"
tex says "you mean dropped him off at the bridge"

Re: Let's help the guys out! Video Texamonials HERE!!!

Posted: April 09, 2012 • 5:46 pm
by LordRapture
I cant find a camera!! NO!!