Gameservatory

@gameservatory.bsky.social

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games, puzzles, interactive stories & bad jokes. youtube.com/c/Gameservatory He/him

List of Gameservatory's recently visited subreddits in order: Dragon Age, CGI Lab, Unity 3D, David Duchovny, KOTOR (Knights of The Old Republic)
Close up of Super Star Wars SNES cartridge.
Screen shot of Jeremy dressed as Alan Wake from the latest episode of Gameservatory, “The Final Author”. In the lower frame, three sketches are displayed represent running, shooting, and flashing the flashlight. These are among the main mechanics of Alan Wake. The flashlight glyph is a silhouette of a person in a coat with a bright high beam extending from the flashlight.
A closer look into how I created the cash tornado chase in my latest video essay, The Final Author, now available on my youtube channel, Gameservatory. I discuss how Twister inspired my interest in visual effects and the process of filming, animating, and rendering the final output.
A behind the scenes look at how computer-generated light beams were hand animated to complete the look of several shots in The Final Author, the latest episode of Gameservatory that explores player agency and volition in Alan Wake and Remedy's follow up titles. Live now on youtube!
Screen capture of Adobe Encoder, rendering the latest episode of Gameservatory, The Final Author. Now on youtube! Probably.
In a top-down view of the Astral Plane, a level from Remedy's Control video game, several Alan Wakes are shining a flashlight into the center of the screen. Due to a rendering glitch, fog that normally fills the background is missing, revealing a distortion of the scene's subjects. This is actually a pre-rendered video of the same scene, used in this case to provide ambient and indirect lighting to the scene geometry. The effect is compellingly abstract, arguably intentional-looking.
From a top down view, a series of boxy piers extend into the center of frame, staggered like numbers on a clock face, growing closer to the camera in clock-wise fashion. Several Alan Wakes from the titular game stand at each edge, pointing a flashlight at a faceted sphere in the center. The entire scene is lit with psychedelic hues to be accent the stark geometry. This is not the final lighting, which will resemble the astral plane level in the game Control. The Astral Plane is a moody, ephemeral void with islands of geometry floating unmoored from reality.
A quick, in-progress composition of Jeremy as Dr. Darling from Control the game, staring across as black hole that splits the frame. On the other side is Jeremy as Alan Wake from the titular game. There are obvious parts of the green screen and other scenery showing.
Jeremy in a lab coat stands in the frame of an open door, directing a bold beam of light towards his apparent prey. Another Jeremy, dressed as Alan Wake, floats toward the sky within the beam. The scene is sparse, with only wooden beams and simple floor to give the impression of a room. The rest is lost in fog.
Jeremy, on the left and dressed as Alan Wake, lingers in the reflection of a two-way mirror. Across the mirror is another Jeremy dressed in a lab coat, observing the phantom. The scientist appears to be in a concrete room with floor to ceiling foam sound proofing. The mood is unnerving.
Premiere Pro interface showcasing an in-progress effects shot of Jeremy in a lab coat facing Jeremy dressed as Alan Wake. The two are split by a glowing event horizon of a black hole, which is vertical in the background. Discerning viewers will notice the names of two youtuber cameos in the audio track: HotCyder and Pim's Crypt. How lucky am I?
Blender 3D interface, showcasing a rendered black hole with a bunch of glowing pixel debris. To its right is a another scene view that shows in-progress scene assets.
A screen shot of a Galactic Starcruiser subreddit post about someone's newly created petition to bring back the Starcruiser attraction. It was deleted by the poster within 14 minutes.
Modeled and staged in Blender 3D: Former, a one-eyed, serpent-like entity from Remedy's Control peers off-camera, it's iris light beam cutting through the fog. On top of its head is a Windows 98 baseball cap in jean and beige. Its looking mighty spiffy.
Several instances of Jeremy in a lab coat, wielding large pencils at the lip of a monolithic stone table. Pipes run down the front; digital bits flow to the scribbling of pencils. The glowing bits chaotically assemble into what eventually resembles a video game level.
Jeremy in a lab coat, fleeing toward the camera. A tornado of money and ideas swarm closer behind him. Perilous giant pencils pierce through the wooden floor, too close for comfort. Suddenly a pencil juts up, blocking view of the scene. Jeremy peeks around it, nonplussed.
A video clip showing Jeremy in a lab coat, running parallel to the camera. He is fleeing a vortex of flimsy wood and dollar bills. A model car smacks him in the head and he narrowly avoids a giant pencil that emerges from the ground. This clip compares a static camera versus one that moves with the action of the sequence.
An in-progress preview within Blender 3D, animated this time. Jeremy in a white lab coat is running parallel to the camera. Out of the left corner a wooden car flies into view, smacking him in the head, before being sucked back into the unseen vortex off-screen.
An in-progress preview within Blender 3D. Jeremy in a white lab coat is running parallel to the camera. Out of the left corner a wooden car flies into view, smacking him in the head, before being sucked back into the unseen vortex off-screen.
Jeremy dressed in a lab coat being chased by a rainbow vortex of cash and dust. Looming in the background are giant, vaguely humanoid statues, witnessing the chaos from afar.
Search for "Git LFS for dummies" returns a result for a youtube video "How to Talk to Girls for Dummies"
Desktop icons of EA, Steam, and Ubisoft game launchers.
Downloading Elden Ring on Steam
Purple glass figures surround an Eluvian mirror from Dragon Age.
Rook, Neve, and Lucanis standing in a foggy Elven ruin