Trivial Escape from Minimalist Island Timelapse
April 21st, 2008 12:41 pmHere’s a timelapse for my game. Watch me repeatedly fail to draw stuff, write big chunks of code that was later thrown out, and also try to make music that I decided to not put into the game! (The music just didn’t fit at all. I extended it a bit and used it in this video in stead)
Contains spoilers obviously, so play the game before watching =)
Oh, and I noticed the counter shows -1:39:49 at the end of the video. I did go a few minutes overtime (mostly upload issues though, also I started way late so please go easy on that =]), but only by a minute or two. There was a bug in the counter that caused it to count wrong when it went past the deadline. (Also, the time skips when the sleep window pops up as my PC was off then.)
Tags: timelapse
That’s really cool. How did you actually get the time lapse footage? What application did you use?
Yeah I didn’t test my timer code for post deadline
I also had upload issues with mine and went a few minutes over, even though the code was actually finished 5 minutes prior. I was surprised to see my lovely clock spitting out some strange numbers! Cool timelapse. Fun to see your beautiful art coming together.
Thank you =)
shizzy0, I used a script with an infinite loop that runs scrot and then sleeps for 30 seconds, so that it ends up taking a screenshot of the desktop every 30 seconds. (I’ve tried other screenshot tools before, but scrot is the only one I’ve tried that doesn’t freeze the screen when it takes shots.)
Anyway, that gives you a directory full of png files. Then you just have to combine them into a video, which I did with mencoder. Here’s the command line I used:
mencoder ‘mf://*.png’ -audiofile ~/Desktop/timelapse.mp3 -mc 0 -noskip -vf scale -zoom -xy 640 -mf fps=30 -o ../timelapse.avi -ovc lavc -oac copy -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4