Bungle's Happy Place (Project Workspace)

[THK]

Stuff for making stuff like this

[Bungles]

Hey all, Last few days have been hectic. And I sense the next few will be much in the same.

I will hopefully be back in action soon. 

@Kondorito those concepts look quite nice and I look at creating some frame artwork layers that use something similar. Maybe finally look into  or ask directly how Dark13 has been able to reference and inject plain text into a formatted swf file so synopses and other information can be visible in Hyperspin. (Anyone with some knowledge of this voodoo let me know)

Also perhaps if you want to work on a short video with me soon that would be fantastic. I will really be looking into animation and overlays as I want this theme to feel alive and interactive where possible.

 

Thanks for the drop @THK I will also be sure to check them out when back home at the computer.

 

@Honosuseri Any chance you change export your Retro AD videos to text and paste it here so we can see what you have available.
I think overall if we can get most of the systems if not all that would be amazing. I do however fear quality issues however since most of them where probably captured on VHS and 8Track tapes..

 

 

[Honosuseri]

My PC is out of action at the moment Bungles. Could well be a couple of weeks before it's up and going again. I'll happily look once it's up and going again. It's not just a single video per system but a whole range of stuff.

Yes the quality can be "poor" as it comes from VHS BUT it can be turned into a "feature". Many of the Retro Wave YT channels do this with their videos...including the tracking and the "onscreen notifications" (e.g Play). I found the indie movie "Kung Fury" hilarious when the tracking makes us miss part of the fight against the rampaging Arcade machine,  when the picture is restored they are inexplicably fighting in outer space ! Genius!!

[Bungles]

All good @Honosuseri I will still be a bit distracted for the next couple of weeks myself. 

Always searching for inspiration. Loving this song/clip.

 

[Kondorito]

Just stumbled upon a topic from @xALPHAxOMEGAx, and he was starting to make a beautiful retro unified theme.

 

Theme background:

 

Topic:

 

 

[xALPHAxOMEGAx]

i haven't worked on that in a long time

[Kondorito]

57 minutes ago, xALPHAxOMEGAx said:

i haven't worked on that in a long time

Yeap; but it was a great idea nonetheless

[xALPHAxOMEGAx]

On 2/8/2018 at 9:53 PM, Kondorito said:

Yeap; but it was a great idea nonetheless

ik i still love it. i wanted to add more moving lights to the grid at this point id probly do the top piece for the wheels a bit different. 
itd be a lot of work. id have to make videos based on the system to get the right video bezel

[Bungles]

Hoping to get some time to create media and with the help of a Fellow HS Legend, create a new retro intro video for Hyperspin.
Similar to the intro of the video above.

Still tinkering with a universal layout like I posted before.

Just looking into layering it more and adding video/info overlays.

Stay Tuned.
 

[Honosuseri]

Love that song! I did post it earlier in the thread!

See what I mean about the "poor quality" with the tracking lines showing in the video? It all adds to the nostalgia. Best of luck with it, I look forward to seeing what you come up with

[Kondorito]

On 2/18/2018 at 10:37 AM, Bungles said:

Hoping to get some time to create media and with the help of a Fellow HS Legend, create a new retro intro video for Hyperspin.
Similar to the intro of the video above.

Still tinkering with a universal layout like I posted before.

Just looking into layering it more and adding video/info overlays.

Stay Tuned.
 

Super excited! I need a unified retro 80s sexy theme!

 

 

[Bungles]

Hey Everyone,

Sorry progress has been slow. Been very busy of late. 

Still just tinkering overall to get a feel for how I want the theme to layer like and how much depth it will have.

Thinking video previews to go behind the canyon in the mountain perhaps. For the Main Menus.

For System Defaults, Box Preview and cart art on the right and Info Panel on the left with video previews etc.

Forever still looking to research how to have swf/fla files reference xml databases for synopsis, genre, players, controls etc.

 

Will be keeping it as a Normal Based Universal Theme Wheel for android users to join in.

Will look to have either time/date built into the special artworks as an option or have it HyperControl compatible for those with Windows and don't mind adding Rainmeter to their setups and configuring shortcuts etc.

 

Was tinkering with some more games for the intro video.. but not sure if I like them.

 

 

[Bungles]

For the video Intro..

What I was hoping for overall is a retro start (Film Grain etc) and then video games starting from the beginning Computer Space in 1971. Then proceeding through 1 Iconic game from each year until 2018.

Zooming in like they seem to be in this ...

All up making it 47 games needed or more if we add a few for each year and add the months of release. Each game appearing slightly faster etc. Then ending in the now iconic.... Hyperspin.

Ideally demonstrating that with Hyperspin you can play them all.

If anyone wants to start making some like the above or differently. I am happy to use them, I would like uniformity to the design so if you cannot do all please leave a template of your work so myself or others can assist. 

I was hoping to approach some music makers to see if they would like to create simple synth-wave score for the project, or perhaps use something allready existing with permission.

 

If anyone out there is a decent audio engineer and wants to have a go, please let me know.