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i'd like to get feedback on the quality of the video, the editing, how well it works as a trailer, etc. don't care what you think about the game's graphics, looks, etc. any advice/suggestions/etc on how to improve as a trailer maker, plz.

It's pretty impossible to make a good looking trailer for a flash game, especially when there really isn't even a story line. Though as a trailer in general, it gets the point of the game across pretty well, know what to expect when actually going to play it yourself. I guess adding some BG music would be one of the best things to do for a trailer. Not really sure what else to say on how to improve it being I'm no pro at this either >_<

I suggest starcraft 2 demo method. Where the developers play through a lvl of the game while discussing the features.

tera: i took the music from the game... so, there IS music playing.
Android: that is a possibility. except i'm not one of the devs of the game, so it might be a bit awkward. that would have to be something that a dev would tell me he wanted me to do, otherwise i wouldn't.

kfine, more exciting music :<

appreciate the criticism, froston. as far as transitions... i had them in between clips, but as most are 5-6 seconds long, the transitions cut heavily into the gameplay and took away from the trailer, overall... so i removed them. as far as the music, that's on the developer... i took the in-game music, and wouldn't use music that i didn't have permission to use, so that would limit my selection... in-game music is by far the easiest.
and, i did record my gameplay and put it together. i'm not really sure how else i would go about doing it?

that's the thing Fallen... i showed the upgrade screen twice... but it doesn't unlock anything. all the ships and towers are unlockable via level. it's static. so i tried to show off all of the ships in different clips, plus all the towers from the enemey's defenses. it was hard showing my own base being attacked, because it happened so infrequently. the upgrades just make your stuff stronger: increase hp/damage to ships, to towers, increase base hp, faster production of ships, faster towers, and faster gold interest, more gold per kill. those are all the upgrades. very different from his previous games in that way; previous games had unlockables via the upgrade menu, but not this one.
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glad that the majority of the responses are positive, and appreciate the tips. i'll be using them and building to make future trailers better. never going to get it perfect on the first attempt. but this is why i agreed to make the trailer for this guy for free... so that when i st

so that when i start making them for Armor, they'll be of higher quality.
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bolth: noted. as above, that'll be a call for the developer to make going forward.

try to add a little bit of a Movie-type trailer too. Instead of showing a 10 second sequence of a ship blowing up put up a 2-3 second screen that gives a very short and captivating explanation of the game feature that's about to be viewed. This will shorten a little bit your fighting sequences and force them to read the text listed and keep em more captivated. It will alow the trailer to have a bit more of a flow.
When I watched it and saw the ship shooting for 7 8 seconds I was starting to wonder what was coming up at the end of the sequence and nothing did.
To Sum it up:
- Add some very short captivating/explanatory sequence text screen(can be done in a vid editor).
I'm no expert but I hope I can give you an idea or two to continue.

To add to my above statement, here is an excellent trailor of a game explanation of True Combat Elite that I have played for years
The video does not entirely apply to this game as it is an FPS but if you check out the first scenes it might give you ideas. feel free to watch it all though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kRVMuXyUks

Maybe it's just because it's early, but I felt lost through most of the trailer. I feel like adding some text to explain what's going on and to further hype the game might be a good idea. I understand that you don't want to break up the gameplay. Maybe if you can do it professionally enough you can overlay the text over a corner of the screen while the action is going. Like perhaps the style of courier letters rolling out with a blinking cursor.
Things like:
"Realtime Aerial Warfare!"
"Unlock New Weapons With Each New Level!"

i agree wif justin. ^

It's fine, it looks JUST like Kingdom of the Wind though, with the right side and those polygons.

It took a couple views of the video to really understand what the concept of the game was..
I just saw tons of ships flying everywhere and got confused as to which were yours and which were the enemies.. :x
Perhaps making your own intro, or sticking in the intro from the people that made it at the start of it might help? Like, how armor games has their little "splash screen" with their logo before their games. Cept it moves. Which would be a plus for visual appeal. :P

red: the opposite... your base is the top, and you have to destroy the bottom base. seeing as i dominated the game, there was almost no video of fighting going on at the top for me to use.
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for the title screen... i worked with what i had. wasn't given any more.
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audio, see above.
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for adding text... i definitely can do that for future ones.
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irish, not sure what you meant about "if you've shown it, you've shown it"... the only thing you could say that i showed twice was the upgrade screen, and that was at 2 different points in the game. everything else showed off different areas of the game or different ships/towers. there are 12 levels, but only 3 backgrounds.

I don't know if thi was said yet, but I think you should limit moving the screen up, seeing how choppy it was in places like :16.

I was confused, but great job Tass.

Though Irish was being a bit of a !@#$.. I slightly agree with what he said. But not the the full extent..
Perhaps with a smaller game you need to make the trailer a bit shorter. Get into the mind set of showing each feature quickly, but emphasizing them so that the viewer understands what the feature is. It WAS a bit long.
I know Irish is just being critical, but no need for the harshness man. XD