As you know, our project is creating a game from fans to fans.<\/p>\n
This project is about doing good! \u00a0Our team works relentlessly on this game so it will be beautiful and fun to play.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
I want to tell you about one such place.<\/p>\n
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!<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Of course I have released this tool to the pulic (of course for free) because…<\/p>\n
Doing good is infectious!<\/p>\n