Hi, Stoffer the narrative guy in the PoH team. I’ve bee trying to make a video in a non functional editing tool has been a pain in the ass ever since I started working with this game. However, I now finally have one that works. A new test video with speech bubbles is on it’s way. We use “test videos” to see how things will/can look without putting the time and effort to implant it into the game engine. This way we can see if things will or will not work.

The earlier projects involved frapped videos from my best friend You tube, where I used TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) In Time as a substitute. It was an in game video with four players from the arcade version of the game. I experimented with different types of texts. From toned bars at the upper part of the screen to colored speech bubbles. Speech bubbles seem to be the best choice for adding dialog to the game. However it didn’t look good enough and the crappy quality of the frapped video made it even worse.

My guess is that my new video will resemble our expectations of the dialog part of the game better than the TMNT one. Hence I now use our own design of the first level as our own characters.