Redecorating

Am in the process of sprucing up the look of the blog. Adding a few images. Probably installing a menu on the left with useful links.

Having decided that a simple screenshot doesn't really "wow" me in the same way as playing the game does, I have spent the past week+ researching ways to record a proper video of Surrounded!... Not as simple as I'd thought. The problem being that since the graphic elements of S! are so small, they don't look so great even on MPEG2 video.

I had my laptop wired to my PC via SVideo to record via a TV capture card. This didn't turn out so great thanks to MPEG2 and the fact that my laptop doesn't support anti-aliasing.

My next ploy was to record the screen using my point-and-shoot camera (which can record in 720p). I set up the tripod and stretched across to use the mouse. There was a slight focus problem, but the quality was better. Unfortunately then I discovered that the video output of the camera was mov and I didn't have a mov-editor.

Well, eventually I stumbled upon a marvellous program called KRUT. It records video from your display. For me that means perfect recording of S! video. Again, though, it only records in .mov. Digging away into the Internet a bit further, I found FFmpeg, which will let me convert the mov to a format I can edit as well as (I think) split and join .mov files. That's where I'm at right now... Next step: the trailer video. After that, I can think more about spreading the word about Surrounded!