Machinima by Simmerville - Jan 18: Mazaloom NEWS Year 231

Episode 2 of LIFE Unlimited is also available, uploaded today. Just wanted to post these two in the best order :) This is a story about two kids who suddenly get split from their parents. Could have been quite a drama, but in this case the story will take a different twist. It's planned to be a cool and relaxed everyday story - will need a couple more episodes to get it all settled...




A little tech talk. My computer is low end, bought early 2016 as one of the cheapest I could find. No separate video card and sound card with dedicated RAM, and therefore quite limited resources for both running games on high resolution and producing films. But I decided to give it a go anyway, thinking that if focusing on the story telling, poor image quality might not be that important to all viewers out there? Anyway, I'm quite happy with the picture quality, could have been worse with those tech limitations.

While episode 1 was recorded straight from the game's video function, episode was recorded with OBS (Online Broadcast Sysem). Filming within game was my favorite, I never did it in any other way. But when I was ready to record episode 2, the quality turned much worse, in fact I had to find another way! No idea what caused it, game wise the Day of the dead-patch was the only change I can think of.

I had quite some hassle understanding how to use OBS, but once getting it, it is very easy to use. I might go more into that in a later post.

Do you see any significant difference regarding the quality? Would you expect a better or worse graphical result from a low end computer? I don't recall the settings in detail, but using OBS allowed me to raise the game settings a little. I also think I used only 30 fps on recording episode 2, so it might feel a bit choppy here and there.