Global Game Jam Manual
  • Introduction
  • Common Terms
  • The Basics
    • Dear first-time Site Organisers
    • Get your team together
    • The Essentials
    • Venue
      • Online Game Jam
    • Submitting a site application
    • Guide to using Slack
    • Checklist : The Basics
  • Next steps
    • Health and Saftey
    • Registering your jammers
    • Structure of the event
    • Setting up your venue
    • Jammer Guide and Communication
    • Checking in on Slack
    • Streaming your jam on Twitch
  • During the event itself
    • Check in and registration
    • Presentations : before and after
      • How to turn on subtitles
    • Keeping the theme a secret
    • Sharing the Diversifiers
    • Jammer behaviour
    • Icebreakers and team forming
    • Feeding your Jammers!
    • Creating projects and uploading games
      • Upload Instructions (digital)
      • Board Game Design & Upload
    • Making a 'Hello Video'
  • Other things to think about
    • Accessibility
    • Software and Platforms
    • Top 10 Jammer requests!
    • Applying for Financial Support
    • Gameplay Videos
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  • Step 1: Recording your Gameplay
  • Step 2: Editing your Gameplay Footage
  • Step 3: Uploading your video

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  1. Other things to think about

Gameplay Videos

A lot of people (inc. media) are going to start browsing jam sites. There are a LOT of games made. People don't have time to play each and every game, so a great video will drag in the players.

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 (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 and here.

  • For Macs, QuickTime player in OSX can record gameplay. More info here

  • 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 and Canva.

  • Free Music can be found in places such as FMA, Chosic or pixabay.

Step 3: Uploading your video

Videos should be uploaded to a site such as http://youtube.com or 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 * Gameplay-only: GGJ 2010 MIT, Quest for Stick * Unity, with script: GGJ 2010, Algoma University Canada, TiltPlain * Over the shoulder: GGJ 2011 Netherlands, GlitchHiker

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

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