Tips on Creating Thresh Wars HOW-TO Videos
Some players have asked if I’d post their Thresh Wars videos to the game:
- How-to videos are preferred over random game videos or funny stuff.
- All videos must be on YouTube before we review them.
- Please follow the Guidelines below!
How to Submit Your Video
Send an email to rikk@cloudplay.com with a link to your video.
There are two possibilites for publishing:
- We add your video to the Thresh Wars YouTube Channel. We’ll add anything reasonable here.
- We add to the actual game! These videos must adhere strictly to the Guidelines below and be of good quality (i.e. a normal person can understand it). We may suggest changes before we publish here.
Guidelines for Making a TW Video
If you follow these principles, your chances of getting your video posted in the game are MUCH HIGHER!
0. Please focus on new users first. These are the folks that really need the help.
1. Short and concise! (e.g. 2 minutes)
2. Guide the viewer via text overlays and/or voice-over (i.e. assume the Viewer is very slow and needs to their hand held!) Voice-over is very, very hard to get right. Overlay text is much easier to execute.
If using text overlays:
- make sure the text is clear and large enuff to read/notice
- make sure it stays long enuff to read
- try to keep the pace and frequency of the text overlays “just right”
- IMO: insert a text overlay EVERY TIME the turn switches from one player to the other
3. Always use the ALLIED player as the “point of view” of the video (e.g. if how to kill a BS, make sure the ALLIED player kills the BS)
4. Delete dead air from the video (use Imovie, Camtasia, YouTube editing, or whatever).
5. Big, centered title text at start (~5 seconds). For example:
THRESH WARS
How to Kill a Battle Station
by name, name, name
6. Music: If you want music its fine, just make sure its not over-powering or distracting.
7. Crisp ending: Big, centered text at end (10 seconds?) For example:
CONCLUSION: We hope you learned how to kill battlestations.
Send comments and questions…. etc.
