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Early Video and Thumbnail Poll - Making Shovel Knight's Signature Moves
🕑 Added 2020-01-31 14:24:56 +0000 UTCHello!
So, the new video is about the four heroes of the finally-finished Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove. Specifically: their signature moves, and how developer Yacht Club Games designed them. From Shovel Knight's downward thrust to King Knight's bash-and-spin combo.
You can watch it here (now without audio errors!) - any feedback would be most welcome before the video's full launch on Monday.
Now, one of the big challenges of making this video has been figuring out the thumbnail. Do I want to include all four heroes in one image? How can I do that while making it readable at small sizes? Questions like that.
So, I want you to help! Here's what I've come up with so far, and I want you to use the poll to help me pick one. Maybe with some additional changes. It might not be the thumbnail forever - I've been experimenting with swapping out thumbs to boost engagement - but it's a start.
Lemme know what you think.
Mark
"4 Across"
"Corners"
"Just Specter"
"Sprites"
Comments
Jacob Bernard
Sorry I'm getting to this a bit late, but in my opinion both 4-across and corners look great blown up like this, but I'm seriously worried that corners will lose readability when shrunk down to a thumbnail, whereas 4-across should translate super well no matter how small it gets.
Will Kommor
Corners IMO because I think Shovel Knight's face is the most iconic element to show and Corners has it shown the largest. In the future it might be easier to vote seeing the thumbnails scaled down to thumbnail size? Thanks regardless, they're all good and love GMTK!
