Volity and video
Been doing a lot of Volity but we're in the middle of a big thing so there's not much to talk about here. Suffice to say we are moving into the next phase of the operation, and the most exciting one. Yes, even as to the uneducated eye it may look like the ceiling's coming down around us what with us all getting jobs and such.
While we're not thrilled about the job thing, the fact is that we did everything we wanted to do with our seed-money fuel. There wasn't a sack of cash waiting for us at the end of the road, nor was there a yawning chasm of doom. Once we get this revenue-earning system off the ground in the next few weeks, the bulk of our responsibility falls back to marketing, maintenance, and community-building which should prove less fully time-consuming than the active coding Zarf and I are doing now. I am hopeful.
This Will Be Cool. You Will Like It. (And so will investors.) Aiming to go live in about a month.
I uploaded the half-hour cuts of all four Gameshelfs, plus the ten-minute pilot-like thingy, to Google Video yesterday. My first choice was Youtube, but they limit file sizes to 100MB, and the episodes (when compressed with H.264 and sized for iPod screens) clock in at around 150MB and I am too lazy to make chopped-up versions of the shows while Google Video is right next door offering no-limit video uploads.
My files are now in "Processing" limbo, which Google's help pages state can last for several days, languishing until some googlemonkey gets around to scanning them for naughtiness. I see, in the meantime, that you can attach transcripts to Google-hosted videos, making them hittable by subsequent text searches. I don't suppose anyone wants to volunteer, ho ho.
In related news, I wrote Scott of Board Games with Scott to say hi, and he said hi back and suggested some collaboratory stuff we could do. This is interesting. (Especially since it wouldn't take a lot of work on my part.)
While we're not thrilled about the job thing, the fact is that we did everything we wanted to do with our seed-money fuel. There wasn't a sack of cash waiting for us at the end of the road, nor was there a yawning chasm of doom. Once we get this revenue-earning system off the ground in the next few weeks, the bulk of our responsibility falls back to marketing, maintenance, and community-building which should prove less fully time-consuming than the active coding Zarf and I are doing now. I am hopeful.
This Will Be Cool. You Will Like It. (And so will investors.) Aiming to go live in about a month.
I uploaded the half-hour cuts of all four Gameshelfs, plus the ten-minute pilot-like thingy, to Google Video yesterday. My first choice was Youtube, but they limit file sizes to 100MB, and the episodes (when compressed with H.264 and sized for iPod screens) clock in at around 150MB and I am too lazy to make chopped-up versions of the shows while Google Video is right next door offering no-limit video uploads.
My files are now in "Processing" limbo, which Google's help pages state can last for several days, languishing until some googlemonkey gets around to scanning them for naughtiness. I see, in the meantime, that you can attach transcripts to Google-hosted videos, making them hittable by subsequent text searches. I don't suppose anyone wants to volunteer, ho ho.
In related news, I wrote Scott of Board Games with Scott to say hi, and he said hi back and suggested some collaboratory stuff we could do. This is interesting. (Especially since it wouldn't take a lot of work on my part.)