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This is a short experimental Decker work, made for the Deck-Month 3 jam, to see if one can make an interactive FMV-based adventure in Decker. It's a short one-choice game where you can pick one of two plushies to befriend. The "about" screen explains some of the techniques I used to get video into Decker and make it playable.
The initial version used 512x288 resolution videos, but the file size of this version was a bit too much for web-decker, so the playable version has had the resolution cut to a more manageable 256x144. The full resolution version is available for download in the original .deck format - it seems to run just fine in native Decker.
Even the low-resolution version is still over 60mb in size, so it takes a bit to load in the browser. Please be patient!
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Install instructions
The .deck files require Decker to run
Development log
- A few notes if you want to try this for yourself43 days ago
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holy shit you’ve taken the crown
also cohost bug is based, i also have one of those plushies. rip cohost
eggbug forever!
Cute! I'll have to keep this in mind as a new possibility in Decker, even is it isn't terribly practical!
this makes me smile. and it's totally inspiring me to add some FMV to my Decker game!
I'd say "yessssss do it" but in terms of practicality my advice would be see if you can keep it small, unless you want your file sizes to go wild haha!
Oh if it helps, on a previous experiment I'd used just one-bit visuals and a smaller window, which helps keep the filesize down, it's also got doco on how to do it and it's here: https://zine.milliesquilly.com/videotest2.html
i will check it out. thanks for your super helpfulness!
This is also crazy cool! Love the subtitles!
Outstanding
Ahh thanks!
Such friends!! Such lovely cronchy FMV
It is interesting the differences in cronch aesthetics between the low and hi-res versions, I've found!
Oh my god, this is amazing.
Ahh thanks! I'm not sure it was a good idea but certainly it was an idea :P
Incredible. Decker Maxxed.
definitely coming close to maxxing out reasonable decker filesizes lol