Doing good is infecting

As you know, our project is creating a game from fans to fans.

This project is about doing good!  Our team works relentlessly on this game so it will be beautiful and fun to play.

I applaud the team and admire the team’s good will and as one of the team I look for places where I can do good.

I want to tell you about one such place.

We are using a game engine called AGS to build the game, this engine is great for building quest games but in order to show in-game video cutscenes it uses a video codec called “Theora” which compresses very large video files to small files which we can embed into the game without losing much video quality, so a 15 seconds video will take only about 700kb of disk space instead of 90 mega bytes!

The problem with this Video codec is that it doesn’t have a simple tool which will enable our graphic designer to work with it – the most decent application I found for this codec is a command line tool which works great but still is … commandline.

Not all of us are good with command line tools, so I developed a graphical wrapper around that command line application which is very simple, does the work with the best results and is a no brainer.

Of course I have released this tool to the pulic (of course for free) because…

Doing good is infectious!

By the way, click here to find the Video to Theora converter tool

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