I've got a lot of time on my hands, a kick ass PC, and Fraps so I'm trying to use them all in conjunction more often. A lot of what it's been used for is ArmA 2 gameplay with my community, but I'm trying to branch out. Which is part of why I'm posting here. Other than shameless self promotion.

Here are a few examples of what I've done so far:

Arma II: Operation Mudslide

This is a night time operation our fireteam carried out in the Kunar Province of Afghanistan. The mission was to insert into an enemy controlled town to destroy a number of hard and soft targets, including a high ranking member of Opfor. The mission goes along fairly smoothly until our fireteam is pinned down under heavy small arms and RPG fire, and we are forced to call in a danger close fire mission.

Arma II vs Arma III: Island

In this video, I wanted to show the differences in scale for the various "Islands" of Arma II and how the Island in the ArmA 3 Alpha stacks up. Not bad for being the new "Utes," if you ask me!

ArmA II: Close Quarters Market Training Facility

I made this brief training course to help show new boots the ropes in Arma II, focusing primarily on close quarters, target identification, and reactions to contact. This video is just a quick run through to give an example of what the course would be like from the point of view of a participant.

ArmA III & Adobe Premiere Pro CS6: Green Screen Keying

Here's a very short but I think pretty cool example of what can be done with a matte map and some compositing.

Battlefield 3: Downsampling

After reading this article over on the very awesome Tested.com, I decided it was finally time for me to mess around with downsampling. Originally I intended it to just be a curiosity and a way to take really sharp, smooth screenshots but was actually surprised at the performance I managed to get out of it. Downsampling to 1920x1200 makes an incredible difference on the quality of the image when playing a game, and when that game is Battlefield 3, the results are pretty spectacular even at 30 frames per second. The edges are smooth, and the textures extremely sharp. I ended up playing through a couple of missions with the downsampling on and recorded this clip along with a full playthrough of a rather pretty night mission. I think I might do videos of a lot of the especially pretty games I own being downsampled to show people just how awesome it can be if you have a powerful enough PC to accomplish it. On a related note, if you can push enough resolution, you should try it in Borderlands 2. That game really benefits from it, it's a hell of a difference if you really care about image quality and that game runs MUCH better even with that and PhysX on high.

Misc. Tests (Editing, etc)

Here's a very short video testing the logo animation I whipped up in an hour for gameplay with my buddies. Usually when I'm messing around with stuff like this, I post a short video up on youtube to show where I'm at before the final version is put up, used, etc.

Here's my first attempt at the keying from ArmA 3 to Premiere, using a random clip of what happens when you don't properly uninstalled a modded game (I was so fucking confused why I was able to do that with the cars in GTA until recently I was reminded that extra files aren't removed on uninstallation through Steam). I really want to do more with this stuff when I get the rest of my group I might try to render out an entire firefight on the bluescreen map and composite it over some real world footage of a park near my house, or my desk or something.

So, is there anything you guys would like to see? I don't have the money to start playing recent games or anything because I've been out of work for a while now, but I'm more than happy to go into Free 2 Play games, betas, and any of the games I already have on Steam. I'll be hopefully getting Bioshock Infinite soon so I will probably do some stuff with that, and one of the members of our gaming group is building a new PC in the next day or two so we'll finally be able to branch out into sexy ass games like Planetside 2 and Battlefield 3 MP, and probably some FarCry 3 multiplayer so I'll probably do some videos of that as well.

I'm also hoping to do a bit of Vlog-esque stuff talking about video games and probably getting into the Marine Corps a bit, and I'm trying to get a bunch of cool mods working in Skyrim so I can record an in-character playthrough of a bunch of content where I try to do a cool voice and read out dialogue and forge my own story. I haven't been writing much lately so I need something to encourage myself to do that kinda crap.

If you want to see me messing around with weird stuff, I'm more than happy to take suggestions on what would be cool to do videos on. I really just do this stuff for fun so I have something to do when I'm not job hunting, which is just about the most tedious fucking thing in the world in this job market.

My Steam List:

Asterisks indicate games that have not been finished or I've not spent much time with. If you have a game you want me to do a video on, search this to see if I have it, then suggest the video!