Happy #ScreenshotSaturday! Here's a miniboss from the bullet hell shmup we're making. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to post these clips without Bluesky blurring the pixel art too much #gamedev #indiegame - ThreadSky

fruitbatsalad.bsky.social • 8 days ago

Happy #ScreenshotSaturday!

Here's a miniboss from the bullet hell shmup we're making. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to post these clips without Bluesky blurring the pixel art too much

#gamedev #indiegame

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relspace.bsky.social•7 days ago

Looking good!

thatgamingguy.bsky.social•8 days ago

Don't worry about it. I'm 50yrs old and only see a maximum of 360p.

stgshmups.bsky.social•8 days ago

Do you mind if I share on the bird app too? I know compression might kill the flair but I would like to share over there as well and just wanted to ask for your permission before doing so. lmk

fruitbatsalad.bsky.social•8 days ago

Sure, that would be great! Or if you want to wait, we're hoping to have a proper trailer / title reveal / Steam page around 1 month from now (?). Either way, I appreciate any reposts over there.

stgshmups.bsky.social•8 days ago

I'll try to keep myself updated, let me know when the steam page/trailer are up if possible. Thanks!

fruitbatsalad.bsky.social•8 days ago

Does anyone have advice for posting clips like this without ruining the quality? 2 weeks ago I posted an mp4, and I wasn't happy with how blurry Bluesky made it. Today I posted as an animated gif instead, but it still became very blurry. Is Bluesky compression just really rough on 2D pixel art?

carina.delachancla.com•8 days ago

From what I learned since the beginning, they're .ts files, 30 fps, and a very low bitrate. I'm guessing like 1500-2000 kbps? There really isn't a way to natively look better but the best aspect ratios are 1:1 & 16:9 but not 9:16.

Also, while they say the max is 1 minute, it's more like 0:59.97

carina.delachancla.com•8 days ago

So yeah, your vertical video would look slightly better if it wasn't vertical.

If you look at the videos on my page (like my musha cover), even that's blurry. My vertical phone uploads in vertical look worse.

carina.delachancla.com•8 days ago

*not 0:59.97. 0:29.27

fruitbatsalad.bsky.social•8 days ago

Thanks for the idea to try a different aspect ratio! That didn't occur to me, but I'll try it next time (with a simple border). I think I'm getting really crushed by compression because the autoscrolling makes the entire image change every frame. btw, I've seen some of your covers, and you rock 🤘

carina.delachancla.com•8 days ago

Thanks! and good luck with future vid posts here!

Bisky said they would like to offer better uploads via plus service, which I'm currently okay with for now, but they haven't mentioned anything since :<

dreamgirlgames.bsky.social•8 days ago

I don't have a good answer but I'm also struggling with this. My best results have been from wide videos. That's all I know now lol

luchalutra.bsky.social•8 days ago

I don't have an easy answer, and the youtube method could bitrate crush it further. Games with a lot of stuff going on are just really hard to capture accurately unfortunately. @chrisnordgren.bsky.social and @jordiroca.bsky.social can probably help you.

luchalutra.bsky.social•8 days ago

Those two made the game Everhood, and a lot of stuff can happen that bit rate crushes the video, but they manage to get it to display crisply (I also think a part of it is choosing which won't get the video to be too fussy, but this is far beyond my scope of understanding).

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