# Gameplay Videos

Once your game is finished (or mostly so), it's a great idea to create a gameplay video. This lets other people get a quick overview of what your game is like, especially when there are thousands of different games to review.

### Step 1: Recording your Gameplay

The quality of video that you make is up to you. Any of these options would be fine:

* (easiest) Use your phone or digital camera to record over the shoulder of someone else playing
* Video capture software, such as [OBS Studio](https://obsproject.com/download) (free).
* Some game tools (such as Unity) have built-in ability to capture gameplay, and you can add script text along the bottom for more info. More info [here](http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=ScreenShotMovie) and [here](http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/14612/creating-a-video-from-unity.html).
* For Macs, QuickTime player in OSX can record gameplay. More info [here](http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4024)
* Anything else you want!

### Step **2**: Editing your Gameplay Footage

You probably want your video to be short and punchy (the internet does not have a long attention span), to achiever this you'll want to cut the fluff, add a title, credits, music (because you didn't have time to add any to your ggj game), etc.

* If you just want to trim the Start/End of your video, it can be done after uploading with YouTube.
* OSX - iMovie is pretty amazing, and simple to use.
* Windows / Linux - OpenShot is fairly simple to use: <https://www.openshot.org/> Other alternatives are [CapCut](https://www.capcut.com/) and [Canva](https://www.canva.com/video-editor/).
* Free Music can be found in places such as [FMA](https://freemusicarchive.org/home), [Chosic](https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/) or [pixabay](https://pixabay.com/music/).

### Step 3: Uploading your video

Videos should be uploaded to a site such as [http://youtube.com](http://youtube.com/) or [http://vimeo.com](http://vimeo.com/).\
In the description box:

* Be sure to mention which jam site you're with;
* Include a link back to your game's page at globalgamejam.org;
* Please also add tags #globalgamejam, #ggj25 and any other tags your Site may be using.

On your game's page on the GGJ site, you can add a link to the video in the URL box, and it'll show up easily during game searches.

Examples of gameplay videos:

\* Audience recording during the game demo, [GGJ 2010 Sydney, GNILLEY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYPwYfbi8jA)\
\* Gameplay-only: [GGJ 2010 MIT, Quest for Stick](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H1pgkhx3Zg)\
\* Unity, with script: [GGJ 2010, Algoma University Canada, TiltPlain](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-T_kXYSBZ8)\
\* Over the shoulder: [GGJ 2011 Netherlands, GlitchHiker](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H1pgkhx3Zg)

Pretty much anything is fine, just have fun with it!