Finished a small quest tonight in HZD! Collected 4 Boar Skins and a Ring for a quest. Next time I play I’m poised to take down a couple Sawtooths. Most of my evening was spent configuring OBS to do a few things, building a couple a scenes and experimenting with some plugins – nerdy fun! I’ll probably work on a couple more scenes tomorrow – it makes for a good small break from all the video editing I’ve been doing.
Open Thread!
Made it to the third universe in Bloo Kid 2! It’s surprisingly challenging in some areas and will need another playthrough to get all the secrets. I also got it running on my Steam Deck, though I had to map it to keyboard controls for anything to play properly. I remember it always being a problem with controllers, though. Other than that it was nice to play on a small screen, another title to make my Steam Deck feel like a large Game Boy.
I made it three levels into Zombieland. I have to admit that the skull flowers are a nice touch to the atmosphere, good mood to end the evening on. I’ve made enough progress that I can take another break from it. 😛
It’s been a productive weekend! Thanks to Shotcut I’ve been getting my video releases in order, lots of gameplay footage to release between now and November! Made a few thumbnails for said videos in Krita, and I’ve even been upping my OBS game for future vids!
Installed a few plugins to try, there was one I even noticed that’s bundled with the current OBS that allows you to capture individual audio streams from different programs. Handy if you want to have your game audio and voice chat audio on separate tracks! Another plugin I found on the OBS Forums makes green screening a hell of a lot easier, and I even downloaded a status bar to mess with. I’ll need to rebuild a few scenes before I consider streaming again, but one of these weekends I’d like to make it happen!
I ran some tests with AMID EVIL last night, they released the new Black Labrynth Campaign. I figured it would be perfect for my testing needs. Didn’t overload the encoder once, and no lag whatsoever on audio or graphics. Thanks to the new audio plugin I now use 5 different audio channels for one game recording, and they consist of:
All of it done without the need of third party programs like voicemeeter! That means I can do this under both Windows AND Linux! Now if Creative would fucking support their sound cards under Linux I’d spend 99% of my time there on Desktop!
Another weekend begins, and another adventure comes to an end. I can add Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light to my finished games list – just have three achievements to find and I’ll be completely done with it! That I’ll have to save for another time. It’s installed on my Steam Deck for future achievement hunting, and the best moments have been caught on film! I already have a video planned to release in a couple weeks from now! Sadly it doesn’t feature any animation, but there are lots of explosions and other fun bugs, plus lots of falling into pits and spikes.
Here is a link to my Steam Review.
Most of my friends are playing Starfield. Me? I’ve been playing Bloo Kid 2 on a 4K screen because I have priorities! One of the many games I keep meaning to finish, but never seem to get around to it. But unlike previous attempts I finally made it to the 2nd Chapter! I can already tell this will require multiple playthroughs if I want to figure out how to find all the stuff hidden in the levels. I’m only a couple levels away from the next boss fight. Now the question is: When will I pick up on it again? :v
One fair bit of warning: You CAN play this with one hand. So if you’re a youth pastor you should probably stay away from this game.
Despite being a tad rusty – I still managed to thwart not one, but two boss battles! I was treated to a very deep and emotional cutscene that looked like it could have been displayed in a movie theatre. Playing it with matching mood lighting and calming tea made it all the more satisfying! There maaaaaay have been some strawberry mochi to go with it. 😉
For what little time I had to set aside for gaming tonight I did progress further than anticipated. I was expecting to only fight one Boss tonight, it was nice to be able to squeeze in an extra! Plus I was able to leave off in such a way that I can just venture off onto new paths, when I return to it of course! 😛
If you want to see more pictures I have more over on Mastodon!
Started on Test Chamber 19 tonight, ended up Test Chamber 22! Only a few more chambers and I can add this to the completed list! I’m totally giving this a positive review when I finish it! These Chambers have been really fun to fry my brains over! I’m now at a point in the game where I have to combine everything I know to get through the remainder of the game. Now to take another long break until I decide to continue the final leg(s) of my journey. I’m thinking tomorrow’s game time will involve something with more exploration…. possibly in an indie universe? I’m thinking either Lost Ember or Kena: Bridge of Spirits.
Got around to doing a little SFM yesterday! Unfortunately this isn’t going to be an animated piece. Instead I needed to come up with a fake game cover, and despite how simplistic it is I kinda like it on its own.
Video production has been going well, though there hasn’t been much in the way of scenes for me to animate. I only have gameplay to share, and not much inspiration to animate any scenes. I’m hoping that will change, though so far it has made for snappy production. I was going to delve into some Wonderlands footage tomorrow, which is dwarfing my Skyrim footage at this point.
Thanks 4k Recording!