I also finished putting together a 3 min video introducing myself, in which I also talk a little bit about where the idea for Clockwork Wars came from. It's weird - I'm a professor, and I spend a lot of time in front a classroom blah blah blahing about lots of different things. I never (or rarely) get self-conscious or nervous about that anymore. But doing this video was a little horrifying. First, you have to deal with watching yourself in a video. It's worse that hearing your own voice and realizing you don't really sound like the "internal voice" in your mind. Second, you worry about saying the wrong thing, coming off like an idiot, or arrogant, or confused. Gakk. I took a bunch of takes, and I think it came out fine, but I can't say I'm looking forward to seeing it on the KS page.
Finally, I'm putting together a sample play-through video, where I take people through 3 or 4 turns of the game. This one was more fun and easier to do, but the raw footage has ended up quite long. I need to do some editing or try to do it again more succinctly. I'm learning how to use iMovie, which is a nice bonus.
I understand that these videos are immensely important to the success of our project. People will often run away from a KS page if the intro video is crap, and boardgamers expect to see a decent play-through video nowadays so that they can get a solid sense of the gameplay. I think we're doing everything right and real professional-like, but the tension is building!
Oh, and check out this awesome art for one of our territory tiles. This is what our "tower" tile is going to look like (or pretty close). I love the lava rivers and arcane runes on the ground!
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