WSNPP: FunChillWesnoth youtube vids

[sarom]

Woo, I found out about Ladder and I'm going to join it xD.

Ok moving along, I've been thinking for a while about hosting Wesnoth videos on Wesnoth games. However these are not just your ordinary Wesnoth games, rather I'm going to make them interesting.

Basically I will set a challenge every week or two that players must abide in a multi-player game by such as "You can only recruit horsemen". Of course you do not have to participate but this will just make games interesting.

After you win or lose your game, you can send the replay to me at dndsarom@gmail.com where I will watch the replay and make one hour long episodes with the best replays I got sent with commentary on tactics, unit usage etc. I would then post links in the forums or the WSNPP blog.

This is just an idea but what do you guys think?

[Caphriel]

Don't try to make all the videos some arbitrary length. Some replays will be shorter, and some will need much more commentary than others. If you aim for some an arbitrary length, you'll end up doing a lot of filler commentary on the shorter, simpler videos, and possibly leaving out interesting discussion in the longer ones.

[sarom]

Fair enough, say 5 replays max per video? Anyhow the point is, should I do something like this and are you wesnoth players willing to participate? Otherwise there is no point in doing this.

[Rowanthepreacher]

Yes and yes. I don't know how often they will be used, but I don't doubt they'll be invaluable should someone wish to watch them.

[sarom]

Well that's 1 out of the possible thousands of wesnoth players, .

[Crendgrim]

Fair enough, say 5 replays max per video?

Well - how long do you want to make your videos? You should be aware that if they are getting too long nobody will watch them. IMHO it'll be better to make one video about one (or maximal two) game(s).
Besides, if you have too many different games in one video, the people who watch your video will get confused soon. It's hard to see who is playing who and what's going on at that certain point.

And last but not least, I'd like to suggest you to look how neki's doing this: http://youtube.com/brutalwesnoth


Crend

[Caphriel]

Given the proposed name of the channel, I suspect he's already aware of neki's videos

[sarom]

Given the proposed name of the channel, I suspect he's already aware of neki's videos

You got that right

Well - how long do you want to make your videos? You should be aware that if they are getting too long nobody will watch them. IMHO it'll be better to make one video about one (or maximal two) game(s).
Besides, if you have too many different games in one video, the people who watch your video will get confused soon. It's hard to see who is playing who and what's going on at that certain point.

I see your point there, I'll think about it. Most games would normally take some time but I'm guessing that some of these fun games won't take long. It'll depend.

[sarom]

Ok, so there are 150 views to this thread. Wooohoo now let's see if there is some interest in this idea.

On the blog I've started a Poll. Visit the blog to vote: http://wsnpp.blogspot.com/

I look forward to your answers

[Crendgrim]

sarom:
Okay. Regarding your website, I've got much trouble reading it. I think you should create a better-fitting layout.
Maybe I'm using the wrong browser for some things, but this is how it's shown to me: (FF 4.0 Beta 12; 1920x1080. At the edges I've cropped a bit from the background to make it smaller)

click for large version

So... first of all, your background. It has way too much contrast, so it's distracting people from the real contents. I think you should try to put the contrast down (maybe use a darker yellow, for example).
Besides, there's the title. Blue on top of a yellow/red/black mix - not a very good idea Hard to read again.
Then, your logo. Well - it's okay. However, you should try to make the white border around it transparent to make it fit better in your layout.
The next thing is the menu bar. In my opinion, a two-line-menu bar with only 5 items is looking too complicated. You should better try to shorten the titles and put it all in one line.
Only two things left, I think. The first of them is the blue font below your blog posts ("0 comments" for example) which is really, really hard to read.
And finally there are those boxes left and right. White on light grey isn't nice to read as well as light grey on lighter grey (on the right - in German it says "Stimmen bisher" which will mean something like "votes until now" - and in the poll result bars).
I think that's all. Please keep in mind that this is all meant constructive to give you an impression of what's looking not so good.

So ... Keep on It's a great idea.


Crend

[sarom]

Thanks for your feedback Crendgrim. I'll get Zaine on redesigning the artwork and background and I'll get the blog fixed ASAP.

[sarom]

Redesigned site up and going, edits such as our own background and htmls setting will come soon. Yes we're too slow I know.

I haven't managed to fix the grey font underneath the gadgets and polls yet but I will somehow fix it up, hopefully by next week. Zaine will fix the WSNPP banner image and make the background transparent and we'll fix any other issues that come to your minds.

Hope the new design works!

*Our target number for our Poll on FunChillWesnoth must reach at least 30 [may change] 'Yes' for the idea to go through. Spread the news and share the fun!

(I will also post the next PWP and NWP guides later next week. Got a few major exams and projects to do, sorry for any inconveniences.)

[Rowanthepreacher]

How dare you!

You think you can just ignore people you've never met that play a game you like, just because you've got "exams"? Without PWP and NWP (yes, both of them), I can't feed my starving children. You cad.

[sarom]

*Feeds the children with paper containing PWP and NWP*