KAG Calling For Cool Screenshots - 1200px wide and up

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Probably my Best Screen shots (keeping in mind for banners or cover pages).

Spoiler: Close Up Knight Fight

Spoiler: Another Knight Fight

Spoiler: Overview of a Battlefield with Flying Knight

Spoiler: Explosions

Spoiler: Forward base with flying knight

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First picture was awesome!

 

Proper use of dinghies

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I don't know Steam's store page policy but Kag needs to be watched as a moving mechanism more so then having many individual screen shots. While these screenshots are full of nostalgic goodness, they should (in nearly all instances) not be effective at enticing newcomers. While I do not have any qualifications as a product sales individual, I can say that if I were to promote a product I would not use screenshots from the community. While there might be a diamond in there somewhere it is in essence something based upon community input and thus up to chance. If I were to promote a product I'd want to control how people see it and have a more active hand in that then asking for screenshots.

But... I could also be a jaded individual. There might be some good things from these... If you are able to work with them effectively feel free to use any of the gifs I posted for the trampoline spike cannons. But it just seems like a gross mid-allocation of attention on a possibly ineffective action to rebrand your product.

So... Not to be a negative person or anything... But I think you're going about this wrong... In terms of asking for community help to sell your game. I have a sort of solution when it comes to advertisement but it's not a photo. It's more along the point I stated above in that this is a game you have to see in action. Get all the people you invited on here and organize a CTF match on a small enough map so that in spectator mode you can record the whole thing. Time lapse the shit out of it. Then after someone wins and the match ends have cuts to another match going on but on bigger maps. Have the camera start on one end and pan to the other. So then you have something that says this is my game, you can build things people attack it, you defend it and people see those highlights the action and understand how it's going to be in the game. Then when they think it's a small map are all maps like this. You have a cut that then shows how large and sprawling things can be with action still going on. Then you can have those silly closeup cuts on funny things like chicken flying catapults, or bison riding and stuff.

Might be more work then just asking the community for screenies of their time in KAG but I think it would be more effective at displaying what your game is about and rebranding your product then essentially going the same route you did before, getting some poorly done photoshopped images, in this case asking the community for their screenshots.

Tl;dr make a time lapse video of a match instead of asking for pictures.

 

Some of the good ones I could find after spamming the screenshot key. I'll probs spam some more if I see the opportunity.

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I am not really one to make screenshots but here you go:

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Yeah I figured the store pages would mainly be about them screenshots. It's disheartening when you have this awesome game but you can't properly display it with the way most digital retailers are. I don't have many screenshots but I have a bunch of gifs if you can find uses for them. So I guess this is my official statement saying that any picture/gif or media work related to KAG I posted on the forum can be used by you guys no worries. Other then that, sorry if I came off as unsupportive/angry customer man, still your number 3 fan Gatu! All of the gay homo erotic fantasies! And all the veggie tofu burrito burgers.

 

That is a fantastic idea. Couldn't you release it as a gameplay trailer/video?

 

Results from watching two matches back to back. Didn't want to upload too many from the same group of people playing. May or may not upload more eventually.

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I really like the second one, it represents a KAG battle pretty well to me.

 

Ideas are like opinions, they are some of the lowest forms of conversational thought, don't take my ideas too seriously man. They are there if you want them but it's up to whim if you really care to them seriously. Half of the time I'm spouting gibberish and the whole time I'm just bullshitting it, but people think, "wow that makes total sense." It's mainly because I commit to the bullshit and see it through to the end with somewhat valid arguments. Do what you feel you need to do as a growing game developer and business owner. Don't worry what community members say you should do, thats the best thing about being your own boss, you don't really have to answer to anyone but yourself. [Also this is the point where I went through my post three times editing it and I was thinking... What would you (Gatu) look like with facial hair?]

Yeah man I know KAG is past it's worth to work on date, but the ideas are probably applicable to TR and future endeavors... Probably anyways. Anyhow don't worry about doing what I say you should do, do what that little eight year old bird meat eating child Geti would do and just have fun with it and try to forget that game development is depressing at times because people are jerks. And if people are being jerks just take out your couple of hundred thousand Aussie bucks in 1 Aussie buck denominations and bathe in them while eating your vegetarian cavier and sipping your organic veggie champagne.

Serious p.s. I'll try to find pictures in my screenshot folders later. I'm on my cellphone for the rest of this weekend and because you guys ignored that one dude's suggestion three years ago there is no mobile KAG for me to find pics from. Also if you can remember how you guys recorded the full map for that time lapse for early KAG beta with drowning water I'd appreciate it. No promises but if I get bored I'll post something.

 

Will try upload some HUD-less pics later, got two with HUD here though.

EDIT: Oops excuse my language in the 2nd...

 

Best screenshot: