jazzylament

Wow! Thanks for all the great responses!

I've already received two videos to the email account, 1 for Talos Principle 2, and the other for the Life is Strange pool noodle incident! So happy I finally got that.

If you've already sent in others, I haven't seen them yet, so let me know if so. Might be an issue with the email.

Also! Another thing to mention, game audio is okay, and preferable, especially if there is also an audio loop that I can blend to make the video loop seamlessly.

Thanks again!

I've been a game developer for just over 10 years now, and yet I'm still always surprised and amused by NPCs which are caught in animations of Sisyphean-like tasks that they will never complete... SisypheaNPCs if you will!

I wanted to start documenting these for other people to enjoy, so I start amassing a large folder filled with captures I collected using the playstation and xbox share features, and recently began posting them to my SispheaNPC accounts on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@SisypheaNPC) and the platform formerly known as Twitter (https://twitter.com/SisypheaNPC)

However! I do have plenty of gaps in what I have captured, and so I'd humbly like to request your help, good people of Giant Bomb, in collecting more SisypheaNPCs! If you'd be so kind as to help me in this, it's own sort of Sisyphean effort, I'd happily credit you in the videos I upload.

You can send them to me here in my inbox through google drive links, or use my email sisypheaNPC@gmail.com if you'd like to send a direct file. MP4 is preferred, but I can work around it if not. Please also include the name and social links you'd like me to share to properly credit you!

For the videos, I need a mostly still footage of the full looping animation, preferably looping at least two times, and catching all the variations if there are any. Try to have minimal UI present and a first person perspective or "photo mode" if possible.

Footage can be in any platform so long as it shows an NPC or a group of NPCs performing a task that will never ever get finished. This then does not include NPCs that are in an animation loop, but will visibly complete if the player interacts with them in some way. You can check out the channel for examples!

My personal hitlist for NPCs I'd love to get:

• Any from the 3D Zelda games
• There are these two NPCs in the first Life is Strange near the end of the game by a school pool that are repeatedly hitting each other in the head with a pool noodle, I'd love to get good footage of this
• Alan Wake 2 has a few interesting ones that I never captured because I was too enthralled with the game
• Call of Duty has a TON of these in the non-combat spaces that I've probably missed
• Ubisoft games are LITTERED with these all over their open world, I'd love to get more of them
• Any that may be in long RPGs or JRPGs since I don't tend to replay those (Persona, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, etc)

Thanks so much for those of you that decide to help, and for those who decide even just to follow and share the fun with others! Much love <3

Also yes, I do realize this literally sounds like I just gave you a Yakuza/Like a Dragon side quest...

@bigsocrates: this is an awesome thing you've been running that I just found out about! :D I'm loading up tinykin again after having left it in the dust after the deluge of games late year so I'm excited to have motivation to actually finish it.

In addition to the forums, do you think it's also possible/worthwhile to organize a group chat on one of the GB Discord channels after the completion date? I used to be part of a comic book club that did something similar and it was great fun just being able to verbally talk with people and make new friends that way :)

The more I play it, the more I enjoy it, but I've been playing mostly Carnado.

Initially i felt pretty burned because it seemed so shallow for a $70 game, especially when the challenge series is locked behind a paywall, but as a "free" game? I think it's great!

What I am REALLY disappointed by is the challenge series. They have some really great characters with great bios and you can see some allusions to their histories and identities through their shouts, such as Lupita having a large family, who are all orphans, and also suffers from crippling anxiety.

And yet her story in challenge series basically is just "Lupita likes donuts and doesn't know how to let go of a grudge"

Like, these are litterally all the 45 seconds of cutscenes:

https://youtu.be/zB7JGIBc-3k

Very disappointing :<

Game itself though? Tremendous fun to play, really like it!

I'm on PS4 with the tag JazzyLament and I tried joining a few groups but still waiting on acceptances...in the meanwhile, I created an open group called Abandon Pants if you'd like to join!

They said Palicos and Meowscular Chef are in the film, so there probably is going to be at least some quirkiness, not that you could tell from the trailer. Cowards xD

As part of my COVID-19 sanity survival strategy, I started up a podcast/Youtube channel with a co-worker called Beyond The Pixel. We wanted to see if we could commit to running a show every week where we would cover various topics while leveraging our experience in the video game and film industry.

For a while we were gradually improving the show and we are pretty happy with the product we were making but it ended up being a lot of work for very little return. We eventually scaled back to only two shows a month, moved away from live recordings, and then took away the video component. Now we just have an audio podcast as our main source of content, but it's less splashy.

From my perspective, it was worth getting into since I was learning more about production and recording equipment (I ended up buying a number of lights, and a proper mixer and XLR microphone set up), but now I feel we are at a turning point. I'm getting the feeling that the podcast isn't going to move the needle for us, and I've been wanting to get more into making discrete video essays that more directly leverage what I've learned in the industry, covering topics such as common game mechanics and their implementations, content streaming pipelines, and maybe even dip into some scripting strategies with Unreal Engine.

I feel this sort of content would be easier to share and promote, especially with Youtube's algorithms as more people are likely to click on a video from someone they don't know if it's 10 or so minutes on a discrete topic, rather than 1.5-2 hour long podcast with strangers. However, I don't think I'd be able to balance both editing a podcast twice a week AND making a video essay as well.

How have your experiences been in the Youtube/Podcast scene? Any lessons that any of you have learned that you could share? Please also share any of your Channels and Podcasts as well! I'm interested in seeing what else the talented userbase of GB have come up with! :D

I'll also leave some links here to the youtube channel and the podcast if you are interested in leaving more specific feedback! Thanks in advance!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA6r5dBQFxwr4CoZtpGc5pg

https://open.spotify.com/show/5HxehW1cx5XYYGzXprjwpa

The podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, as well as also several other apps like Castbox which use Apple Podcast as a reference point.

I figured this would be a safe space to share it :D

I'm trying to make more podcast/talk show oriented streams, and this seemed like a good opportunity to practice. Let me know what you think and if there are things that could be improved!

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/661920584