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[ska]

236800 hs. It was really hard to stay concentrated for such a long time.

My goodness... what a tedious level. Well done.

[EddyMataGallos]

Update on the battle!

Before:
24 innuendonewb - 80
26 lifdoff - 73

Now:
24 innuendonewb - 82 (+2)
26 lifdoff - 73

It's been a month and both players seem to have forgotten about this battle :P I expected this to become a more serious battle and reactivate highscoring :S

[EddyMataGallos]

inn has stepped up his game and has pulled his lead up to 15 scores over lif. He's almost kissing dem 100 scores now. He recently passed 50 episode scores too, or half the game, which is a nice milestone.

Before:
24 innuendonewb - 82
26 lifdoff - 73

Now:
24 innuendonewb - 88 (+6)
26 lifdoff - 73

[MiBeM]

Episode 02 sr, got 1st in real time while running the column :D
Video with some more funny moments.

[EddyMataGallos]

That's interesting, because my ex-1st score there was also attained during a column run, I guess the ep is suitable to being well done casually because of the mostly short or straightforward levels. Btw I saw the video and you're getting some very smooth runs, pretty clearly you can destroy the current mark.

[MiBeM]

pretty clearly you can destroy the current mark.

Absolutely. I'm getting lots of really good runs and I've also come up with some strats to make ep 09 a lot more consistent, so it's bound to happen soon.

[Innuendonewb]

Made it to 100, 28 more to go!

[EddyMataGallos]

AHA YES! inn wins the first battle, the battle to 100 scores, and now is tied in 23rd place with nadroj.

23 innuendonewb - 100 (+12)
26 lifdoff - 73 (+0)

Only 28 scores to entering the top20 rankings, or might be less if he attacks some of trib4l's 19ths, like 4-0, 4-1, Ep5, Ep9, 12-0, Ep13, 33-2, 36-2, 46-4, 55-1, 58-2 or 87-4... cough cough.

[golf]

After being made aware by Jirka that jp took my 0th on 110-2, decided to sit down and reclaim my rightful place on top of the leaderboard.

[ska]

After being made aware by Jirka that jp took my 0th on 110-2, decided to sit down and reclaim my rightful place on top of the leaderboard.

Nice. Hopefully this stimulates some activity. I guess it [the decline in community activity] was bound to happen after 12 years. Hopefully N++ on Steam rekindles activity; indeed, I'm pretty confident it will.

[xaelar]

Oh I'm sure it will.

[ska]

Who's this guy? ^^^

Edit: It's been 247 days since his last post.

[MiBeM]

Hey guys! As you all know, I've spent the last 10 months or so in the army and mostly away from N. Now my service has come to a slightly premature end due to a tumor in my testicle which is unidentified as of yet (may or may not be cancer) and will be surgically removed soon. This means I'm a civilian again and have time to do things.

As a result I have finally begun work on the Best of N video I was talking about a year ago. Here's a little preview. The rest of the runs will be edited in a similar style. Any feedback is appreciated, if you can come up with some off such a short clip!

I'm also planning another full game run in the near future, will announce a time when I've decided :)

It's a run so not off topic, right?

[ska]

Hey guys! As you all know, I've spent the last 10 months or so in the army and mostly away from N. Now my service has come to a slightly premature end due to a tumor in my testicle which is unidentified as of yet (may or may not be cancer) and will be surgically removed soon. This means I'm a civilian again and have time to do things.

As a result I have finally begun work on the Best of N video I was talking about a year ago. Here's a little preview. The rest of the runs will be edited in a similar style. Any feedback is appreciated, if you can come up with some off such a short clip!

I'm also planning another full game run in the near future, will announce a time when I've decided :)

It's a run so not off topic, right?

Hey, Mole!

I'm sorry to hear about your tumour; I really hope it's not cancerous. :(

As for your video, I am looking forward to it, although I would humbly suggest calling it something different to "Best of N", purely because my original was called that, and there's no need for needless confusion. Plus, I'm sure you want to differentiate your work from my own. You're even welcome to call it "Best of N 3" if you want. (Other ideas could be "Best of N: Reloaded", "Best of N: Revolutions", or "Best of N: The Return of Neo's Stunt Double".)

Edit:
Video for BoN 1
Video for BoN 2

[vankusss]

Hey guys! As you all know, I've spent the last 10 months or so in the army and mostly away from N. Now my service has come to a slightly premature end due to a tumor in my testicle which is unidentified as of yet (may or may not be cancer) and will be surgically removed soon. This means I'm a civilian again and have time to do things.

As a result I have finally begun work on the Best of N video I was talking about a year ago. Here's a little preview. The rest of the runs will be edited in a similar style. Any feedback is appreciated, if you can come up with some off such a short clip!

I'm also planning another full game run in the near future, will announce a time when I've decided :)

It's a run so not off topic, right?

First of all, good luck with the tumor, I really hope it's harmless.

As for the video, I have 2 things:
1. you seem to be using some weird framerate/speed - is it intentional? It doesn't seem to be the real speed by which N runs.
2. when you're slowing the video, do it gradually - don't go from 100% speed to 30% in 1 frame, instead do like 3 frames of 90%, 3 frames of 80%, 3 of 70% etc. I made the numbers up, you'll need to experiment a little. I made the same mistake for the early runs in my video (iNsane), and corrected it only in the later ones (like last 3 minutes). The difference is glaring.

With the activity of this forum, I think you can talk about anything and still be on topic.

And btw, what are you people, who still lurk around this forum, up to?

[ska]

2. when you're slowing the video, do it gradually - don't go from 100% speed to 30% in 1 frame, instead do like 3 frames of 90%, 3 frames of 80%, 3 of 70% etc. I made the numbers up, you'll need to experiment a little.

I just want to reinforce vankusss' message about gradual slow downs and speed ups. I know there is a trend these days in music videos (and other media) to snap accelerate/decelerate video, but it tends to be jarring and, well, not as cool. :P

[MiBeM]

Thanks, I will put this feedback to good use! As for the framerate, I have recorded these runs in Nreality v7.2 (which runs at 60fps) because it looks the smoothest. It creates a slightly weird feel because the game logic (I think) still runs at 40fps.

"Best of N" is a placeholder name until I come up with something catchier, this will not be the what the final product is called.

[ska]

Thanks, I will put this feedback to good use! As for the framerate, I have recorded these runs in Nreality v7.2 (which runs at 60fps) because it looks the smoothest. It creates a slightly weird feel because the game logic (I think) still runs at 40fps.

"Best of N" is a placeholder name until I come up with something catchier, this will not be the what the final product is called.

Cool. I remember capturing N gameplay using NReality (running an older version of Flash) in 200 fps, and then transcoding it down; I have experimented with different frame rates since. (If you look at the videos I did for Blur 5, you can see how it looks.) My recommendation is to continuing capturing at 60 fps, but I would make sure that you get the right settings, as it currently looks quite jittery. No amount of post-production effects can fix crap footage, so it's essential that you get a good capture going. I have used CamStudio and OBS in the past (with the latter using the latest version of Flash), but whatever works for you, just so long as it looks smooth!

[MiBeM]

The low framerate of the game has been putting me off doing this for a while because it's hard to get it to look smooth. I have experimented with different software and different versions of the game and what you see in the preview is the best I've been able to achieve. There's simply no way to change the game to run its physics at a higher frequency (obviously if that a thing it would break demos) so some jitters are unavoidable, especially while moving fast. I think in its current form the video does look smooth enough to be enjoyable, though. I have already recorded all the runs that are going to be featured and edited a few minutes of footage, so I won't be changing my techniques at this point unless for a very significant improvement.

[ska]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfIDdRELPVQ

It might depend on your computer's specs. I wouldn't have been able to achieve this level of smoothness at this resolution on any of my previous laptops.

[MiBeM]

Apart from a few slowdowns/jitters which I've tried to eliminate as well as I can by having multiple takes of the same run, my footage looks more or less as smooth as yours at normal speed. It's not a problem with computer specs, mine can handle 1080p 60fps recording at high bitrates. The problem when slowing down the footage is that the ninja moves a certain distance (which can become quite large when moving fast - danielr's run in the preview is a good example of this) in a frame, and frames become more spaced out the more you slow it down. Close-ups also make these distances look larger, for obvious reasons. The only way to smooth it out would be to manually edit in frames with the ninja in between two positions. This would be cool but would take an outrageous amount of work. If you look at the old Best of N videos, I would say that I'm doing better than they did in terms of smoothness.

[ska]

Hey, it's not that bad. Perhaps try slowing it down more subtly? Anyway, I'm sure whatever you produce will be entertaining :)

[EddyMataGallos]

Probably one of the most extreme examples I've seen of this behaviour

[ska]

Probably one of the most extreme examples I've seen of this behaviour

Must be a railgun!

[MiBeM]

I finished my video!
Tell me what you think :)
There are flaws in my editing but I'm pretty happy with the end result regardless.