Monday, October 14, 2013

Let's Play "The Junkie"

I really enjoyed this one. Very cool art style.

Get it here: http://www.freeindiegam.es/2013/10/the-junkie-vladeta-stojanovic/

The developer: http://vladetastojanovic.weebly.com/

Let's Play TIMEframe. Waterfall adventures and (spoiler) world-ending comets.


The Dark Mod Let's Play part 4

I was having some issues with trying to monetize let's plays of the dark mod, and youtube was saying that I need to provide proof of commercial use rights. But, it's a free game. It isn't copyrighted, or at least I don't see a copyright on the site, and I don't think it is therefore subject to copyright law. And on top of that, I already monetized one Dark Mod video 2 days ago.  I know it's just an algorithm at this point, and no human has looked at it yet to make any decision (if they ever do), but jeez. It's hard to monetize sometimes, even with commentary.

The Dark Mod Let's Play part 3

The Dark Mod is a free standalone mod, available for download at thedarkmod.com.

Thanks very much to the developers for all the hard work put into this, and for keeping it a free, open-source project.


The Dark Mod


Sunday, October 13, 2013

Medal of Honor Let's Plays

I might need to stop doing this series since EA games are so hard to monetize on YouTube, even with commentary. Maybe I'll do them without ads, not sure yet.


Thursday, October 10, 2013

Let's Play commentary

I was thinking of doing audio commentary. I have a microphone. Do you use FRAPS to record commentary, or do people use a separate program?

Please check out my let's play channel!

Take a look at my let's play channel! I may start doing commentary in the future, if I get enough traffic for it to be worth my time.

http://www.youtube.com/user/danent657

Some of the more popular videos.

Friday, October 4, 2013

FRAPS for Linux? Ubuntu? Mac?

Does anyone have a favorite program they use to record on screen footage for Ubuntu or Mac? FRAPS is Windows - only as far as I know.

Comment below with any hints or tips, thanks.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Bug in Portal at the end of the demo

This happens in the Half Life 2 demo as well, so it seems to be a problem with the Source engine, and either FRAPS, Razor game booster (which just updated and has been behaving strangely), or something else I am running. These demos used to work on my Windows 7 machine, so it's a bit odd.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Torchlight Playthrough, Destroyer class


Let's Play Envirobear : Operation Hibernation


Let's Play Duke Nukem 2


Let's Play Slender


Let's Play Biomenace


Let's Play Hotline Miami


The Thing video game 2002


The Thing Gameplay playstation 2 pc port version


Deus Ex Invisible War gameplay


The Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim - Dragonborn


Torchlight let's play


FEAR Perseus Mandate

Man this game was scary.


Sunday, September 22, 2013

Youtube and monetized let's plays.

So the position YouTube (and therefore Google, also owners of Blogger) takes on monetizing Let's Plays is very odd to me.

"Video game content may be monetized if the associated step-by-step commentary is strictly tied to the live action being shown and provides instructional or educational value.
Videos simply showing a user playing a video game or the use of software for extended periods of time may not be accepted for monetization."
So, I need to talk. A walkthrough is not enough. I kind of want to remain anonymous, and not become some character on YouTube. I also do not have a commentary worthy mic set-up, and it will complicate the process. Some, but not all, of my videos have not been monetized due to this and there does not seem to be a clear criteria for this. You would think they would appreciate the free advertising and the free clicks I am giving them by uploading content. But hey, what do I know, I'm just a lowly end user, unworthy of advertising revenue. Unless of course I get another program to run at the same time as FRAPS and also a new microphone and describe what I am doing. Goody gumdrops. Sounds great.
I get the copyright issues at play here, but it seems like an awfully arbitrary distinction to require people to provide commentary over video games in order to make it more of an original product. It's still %99 the work of the programmers at the studio and %1 YouTuber work, talking while they play video games. I would be less bothered if there wasn't this legal wiggle room by saying "may" and other weasel words to justify basically any action.
I may allow you to do x. I may not allow you to do x. I may ban you from monetizing forever for doing x. May, might, maybe. See what I did there? Legally, I can now perform any arbitrary action. I have given myself all available options by way of ambiguous legal language. Hurray for IP lawyers! 
Ugh. Ok. Said my piece.

Alan Wake let's play

"And now for the latest installment in great moments in dog video game appearances:"



Euro truck simulator 2!


Thursday, September 19, 2013