I'm currently trying to get more comfortable with speaking English, and I'm doing this in the form of a let's play/walkthrough of Majesty: The fantasy kingdom sim

In future videos I'll edit out the loading screen and don't fiddle with the options at all. 

This is my first ever attempt at creating a video by the way. 

such a great game, Paradox even upgraded everyone on steam who had Majesty to the new Majesty HD version for free.

You english is quite good, even compared to some of the native English speakers I know

I'm still stuck with my original version of the game and its expansion (bought them both when they were new), so no HD upgrade for me

And thanks! I actually expected my English to sound a lot worse (I've never listened to a recording of when I speak English before). Hopefully I'll have time to create another video tonight, where I'll use what I learnt from creating the last one to make a better video. And I'll also do a harder level. 

Part 2 is up:

*edit* as is part 3:

Hi Fnord, thanks that is a good guide and your delivery and speech are perfectly fine. Very good in fazt and I have been a book editor and am the son of a university English Professor so I am a pretty good judge

that is a great game, i had it from when it was released and enjoyed it. Great idea.

Originally Posted By CrisGer (19 MAR 2012 2:27pm)

Hi Fnord, thanks that is a good guide and your delivery and speech are perfectly fine. Very good in fazt and I have been a book editor and am the son of a university English Professor so I am a pretty good judge

 

that is a great game, i had it from when it was released and enjoyed it. Great idea.

Thanks! Among RTSs this is one of my absolute favorites. It has such a great amount of replay value, due to its randomized levels and great unit variety. Shame about the game balance, but at least they improved that a little bit in the expansion.

Anyway, 3 more videos are up:

Your vids are great. what re you using to make them? doing a fine job. And I agree re this game, one of the good ones. Glad you enjoy it too.

Originally Posted By CrisGer (20 MAR 2012 3:12pm)

Your vids are great. what re you using to make them? doing a fine job. And I agree re this game, one of the good ones. Glad you enjoy it too.

I'm only using free software. Camstudio for recording video and Audacity for recording my voice. 

Originally Posted By Fnord (20 MAR 2012 5:26pm)

Originally Posted By CrisGer (20 MAR 2012 3:12pm)

Your vids are great. what re you using to make them? doing a fine job. And I agree re this game, one of the good ones. Glad you enjoy it too.

 

I'm only using free software. Camstudio for recording video and Audacity for recording my voice. 

Thanks Cris. I was just about to ask the same question. Ideally I'm looking for the best free video compression software as uploads where I am take forever and a Sunday.

Nice job Fnord. I'll watch a bit to see if I might like the game, even if not I think it's great to be able to associate a name, face and a voice.

Originally Posted By CB (20 MAR 2012 6:06pm)

 

Thanks Cris. I was just about to ask the same question. Ideally I'm looking for the best free video compression software as uploads where I am take forever and a Sunday.

 

 

These files are turning out to be quite large. The last one (which is 17:48min) is a 460mb at a resolution of 800*600, and I'm using the latest xvid codec for compression. 

And I have never thought about how noisy my mouse actually is, but I can hear it in these videos. 

While I'm not sure about camstudio, I use fraps and the files get to be huge, mainly because it outputs raw avi's, so the quality is 1:1, which you lose some of once you start to compress.

Virtual dub is a decent free video editor if you can't afford the paid ones, like Adobe's. Microsoft's own movie maker thing isn't terrible either, if you just wanna make some yt gameplay videos and don't need fancy editing/post-effects things.

I use fraps too and at 30 fps at full screen it chews up around 24 MB per second. Yikes! I ought to try half-screen if it's more suitable for YT purposes.

For now I have been using the free version of Prizm Video File Converter. I really haven't done much of any research on the subject so I'm open to any recommendations for the optimal output format that I should use for uploading basic game play videos. There are several choices that can be selected.

I read up on recording programs before starting, and FRAPS is supposed to be one of the best when it comes to 3d games, while camstudio or hypercam 2 (that one does not leave a watermark, it is HyperCam 3 that does) is better for 2d games, according to the sources that I could find. . File size is not really an issue for me, as I have an uncapped  100/100 connection, the only problem would be if the file turned out to be too large for youtube (how large files do youtube allow anyway? I already managed to break what I thought was the video length limit) 

Hey, this is cool stuff!  Now I really feel like playing this...

Originally Posted By Traveller (22 MAR 2012 2:54pm)

Hey, this is cool stuff!  Now I really feel like playing this...

It is a great game, so give it a shot! I got 2 people over at RPGwatch to start playing it (again). 

By the way, I really seem to have managed to capture the female demographics with my vides:

(based on roughly a day old data)

And by the way: more videos! I'm nearing the end of the core game, after that I just have the expansion to deal with.

And that is that! I've just uploaded the very last mission. I'm also in the process of uploading a video for the demo (though it is kind of slow, I just added it for completions sake). 

I might do the expansion at some point (I probably well actually). Here is a direct link to the Majesty playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL593C1FB1AA607899&feature=mh_lolz  

Do you plan to do more let's play videos? Hope so, subbed to you

Thanks! 

I do plan to start the expansion levels next week, though I am a bit worried about doing Legendary Heroes, as that is the only level in the game that I don't feel confident that I'll be able to beat on a regular basis. After that I might do Sacrifice, if my recording software plays nice with that game. 

@ Fnord: "By the way, I really seem to have managed to capture the female demographics with my vides:"

Eh? how do you mean?  What female demographics?  In the game, or..?

He means on Youtube, the viewers who have watched his videos.

Youtube tells you info about who views your video, shows you a map of ht eworld, where most oviewers come from, what % are male/female, etc.

Originally Posted By Stiler (24 MAR 2012 3:30pm)

He means on Youtube, the viewers who have watched his videos.

 

Youtube tells you info about who views your video, shows you a map of ht eworld, where most oviewers come from, what % are male/female, etc.

Ok, though I fail to see how Youtube knows whether you are male or female. (especially if you are not logged in to it, which you certainly don't need to be)  I mean, if I'm viewing a vid there, how does it know my gender? ..and how does it know a female might not be watching on an account that a male started?  Some people share accounts and or computers.  I'll take a big guess here, and guess that it defaults to male. I might be wrong.

EDIT: I'm really starting to think I should make my gender generally more visible, because people like me who hide it because of the flak you get from sexist males if they know your gender, is probably contributing towards all kinds of data like that getting skewed...  I understand 100% how people at the receiving end of racism must feel, because in many circles sexism acts in exactly the same way.  You are instantly excluded the moment they know your gender.  

When you register a youtube account you need to say if you are a male or a female, that is how youtube can tell. It won't count people who are not logged in. In fact it gives rather detailed data about viewing habits, I can see how many view each video has, from each country (counting states in the US as separate countries), the male:female distribution, how many of those views were unique and how many were returning, like:dislike trends, what videos caused people to subscribe/favourite, at what part of each video people stop watching and so on and so forth. 

Originally Posted By Fnord (25 MAR 2012 6:56am)

When you register a youtube account you need to say if you are a male or a female, that is how youtube can tell. It won't count people who are not logged in. In fact it gives rather detailed data about viewing habits, I can see how many view each video has, from each country (counting states in the US as separate countries), the male:female distribution, how many of those views were unique and how many were returning, like:dislike trends, what videos caused people to subscribe/favourite, at what part of each video people stop watching and so on and so forth. 

 

Well, you see, and therein lies the rub:  if you have a couple sharing a PC, chances are that the Utube acc. will be registered in the guy's name and that they just stay logged in for their Utube viewing.  I don't even remember what my Youtube password is, so I'm never logged in when viewing vids, so it's automatically not going to count me and other like me who can't be bothered to log in on their own accounts.

...so to me stats that rely on the account stats are reather moot, because they don't actually tell you who is viewing the vid, only who's accounts are being used to view it. 

Originally Posted By Traveller (25 MAR 2012 7:28am)

Originally Posted By Fnord (25 MAR 2012 6:56am)

When you register a youtube account you need to say if you are a male or a female, that is how youtube can tell. It won't count people who are not logged in. In fact it gives rather detailed data about viewing habits, I can see how many view each video has, from each country (counting states in the US as separate countries), the male:female distribution, how many of those views were unique and how many were returning, like:dislike trends, what videos caused people to subscribe/favourite, at what part of each video people stop watching and so on and so forth. 

 

Well, you see, and therein lies the rub:  if you have a couple sharing a PC, chances are that the Utube acc. will be registered in the guy's name and that they just stay logged in for their Utube viewing.  I don't even remember what my Youtube password is, so I'm never logged in when viewing vids, so it's automatically not going to count me and other like me who can't be bothered to log in on their own accounts.

...so to me stats that rely on the account stats are reather moot, because they don't actually tell you who is viewing the vid, only who's accounts are being used to view it. 

When it comes to shared accounts, one might expect things to even out over time, a roughly equal amount of men will use womens accounts and the other way around. Though it needs a decently sized sample for this, over an extended time period this should take place.